Which seas do you avoid?

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    English
    26·
    3 months ago

    Software. 99% of the time there is some Free Software alternative that either somehow does the job for my personal tasks, or is better anyways.

  • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    So there is a thing I kind of pirate, but not entirely – e-books.

    But thing is, our public library page has e-books and some of them are available to be read online. Now I cannot officially download them, however opening a network tab on browser console shows me a request to download the whole .epub file. So what I do is copy that request as curl and just download it via terminal.

    Is it piracy, probably, is this resource publicly available for me to read, definetly yes.

    Other than that I don’t really pirate much else.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Food for thought. If you have decided you were never going to buy the game, what’s the harm in pirating it

      • S13Ni@lemmy.studioEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        Honesty as an aspiring indie dev myself, I wouldn’t mind you pirate my game BUT I just buy cheap indie games on sale without not being sure if I’m going to play them any time soon. Best case scenario I found new favorite game, worst case scenario, I just payed 8€ (-the expenses from the store) to some developer chasing their dream.

        My wallet can take it and I like to support indie scene.

          • ursakhiin@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            That indicates that you might buy it if it’s good. The person I replied to implied they would never have purchased it at all.

        • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Because if you’re selfish enough you can enjoy the game at no cost to you guilt free.

          I’m just pointing out the facts here.

  • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Anything that is an executable on PC (software / games) due to security risk. Game ROMs for emulators are fine.

  • mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    Antivirus softwere. i cant even began to describe how horribly wrong can that go

    I mean who the fuck pirate that, you went out of your way to pirate a software from a shady website just to protect yourself from other files u download from other shady websites

    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      ESET Endpoint, ESET used to be easy to pirate, box+Mara fix, then they patched that loophole and I was forced to subscribe to it (until I switched to Linux anyway) but I thought about putting eset on my windows VM and checked out the latest options for pirating it and I found out about ESET Endpoint which is self hosted antivirus for corporate environments. So we have pirates running their own Endpoint servers…virus definitions hosted by other pirates. That scared me a bit.

    • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Back in the day, when I didn’t know better I did try this. With Norton I believe. I’m not gonna drag this story, it ruined my boot, but for some reason it didn’t steal or encrypt anything (Makes me think if I just fucked up the install instead of it being malicious). After re-installing Windows everything went back to normal, and I managed to get BitDefender & Malwarebytes another way xd. Good ol’ times. 2/3 AV worked

  • salarua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    i refuse to pirate indie games. i will always buy games that are independently released or from small publishers because 1. they’re just trying to break even (unlike publishers like EA and Activision who have millions of fans lining up to buy their repetitive junk) and 2. they almost never have DRM. i’ll also buy my music for similar reasons; 99% of artists can barely make a living and i really do not want to contribute to that statistic

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    Nothing nowadays.

    I’ll pirate indie games, see if it like it and if I do - I buy them to support the developer.

    Similar with ebooks, I pirate them, read and if I like it. I will buy the physical book to support the author.

  • Firipu@startrek.websiteEnglish
    141·
    3 months ago

    Not refusing, but lately I basically don’t pirate games anymore. Steam made it so easy to buy games… + pirating games is always a pita with the required hacks etc. (or at least it was way back when I did it).

    Software I don’t pirate, I just use foss stuff wherever I can.

    I also don’t pirate books in general. Just get them on Kindle and support the author (and unfortunately also Jeff bezos)

    I pay for Netflix (mainly for kids) and go to the theater for big movies, but aside from that I pirate all screen content.

    I also pirate comics, but that’s 90% because it’s almost impossible to get them legally where I live. I would pay for DC unlimited if it was available in my neck of the woods.

    • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m pretty much the same. Although my e-reader supports generic epub files, so I go to whichever book shop site and look for ebooks.

      When I bought my e-reader, I specifically looked for one that wouldn’t lock me into their ecosystem too much.

        • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I’ve been using Kobo Libra 2 for more than a year now. It’s good for me as I mostly read books. It’s black and white and has adjustable (intensity and temperature) backlight. One thing I’d recomend – get a case as well. The screen is rather soft and scraches easily.

          Other than that I can’t recomend much else since I haven’t had anything else. It’ll depend very much on your use case: do you need a collored screen, what do you intend to read, comics, PDFs, regular books.

          Reading regular books screen size does not matter as much as for PDFs and comics. And for comics colored screen might be a better choise.

          My general recomendation: an adjustable backlight is a must, both intensity and temperature, deside on a size and color requirements and start looking for something in your price range. Kobo and Onyx were the brands I looked at first, but there are others.

          • rasakaf679@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Thank you for your suggestion. I found an old Android tablet. I used ForceDoze app using Shizuku (temp root) to prolong battery life for 3 days for using 3 hour daily. And using Moonreader + for my books with reading mode and put on a hazy screen protector. It works wonderfully now. Setup was a bit of hassle. But now it’s done.

        • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Kobo is where its at, Amazon has locked down their ecosystem to prevent piracy. Which also made my paperwhite garbage. Unless you’re using Kindle Unlimited its not really worth going for kindle

          • tudoapampa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I don’t understand this “Amazon has locked down” part. I easily send epub to my kindle through send to kindle or email, and the best part imo is whispersync that permits me to read among my iPhone and inkpalm 5.

            • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Oh well if everything you do on your kindle is above board then I imagine it’s a great device. Having had my jailbroken kindle auto updated to the latest version without me noticing and with no way to revert it, it has left me rather salty about the device. It can still read epubs but it now only receives KFX files from Amazon which can’t be de-drm’d anymore.

  • turkishdelight@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I pirate everything. If they gain my respect, I then buy it. For example I bought a copy of Witcher 3 I never actually played (because I pirated it).

  • LordJer@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    My wife likes to watch Disney +. Thus anything that comes out on Hulu / Disney + / ESPN bundle we will watch through traditional means. If I can purchase a show or movie legally and retain ownership I will watch through traditional means. On the flip side anything that was once on Hulu/ Netflix but is not anymore we are gonna pirate. Anything that airs on a streaming service that forces you watch within an app with ads we are gonna pirate. Anything that airs on Netflix after its password sharing crackdown we are gonna pirate. Any show that airs on streaming service that did not before but now has ads (I am calling you out Amazon) we are gonna pirate.