samus12345

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If buying it isn't owning it... in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it's actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

Was this community banned on lemmy.world? I was trying to access some bookmarked posts and comments but they weren't there. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn't two years ago.

You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Present day with 2005 desktop.

Table of various levels of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Table of various levels of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Which of course makes no sense - if you don't have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.

Table of various levels of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Ah, Gaben's "piracy is a service issue."

Table of various levels of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it's a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it's popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.

Basically, are you hurting the creator's ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn't qualify.

Table of various levels of piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You wouldn't download a Rick and Morty meme

[Louis Rossmann] Is All Piracy Equal? Exploring Gray Areas: When Is It REALLY "Stealing" ?? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.

[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads? in c/agora@sh.itjust.works
A different type of 17th century piracy in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Starfield has been cracked in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I'm keeping my expectations low.

EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.

EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It's no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I'd paid for it.

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