this is the primary reason i advocate for more piracy, and even legal protections for piracy, in some capacity.
It’s one of the few spaces i consider to be a “truly free market” when it comes to economics.
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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 days agothe problem is so many people are willing to say they’ll take a stand.
but when the time comes, the mindnumbingly overwhelming majority suck it up, because they must have their precious shiny and can not suffer even the mildest of inconvenience.
Its my biggest gripe in gaming, but its a enormous gripe just in general, with everything. because it doesnt matter if you are talking about appliances, creative software, video games, streaming services, stores, etc.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m more and more inclined towards the idea of piracy myself.
I don’t actively do it actively since I dont really know where to begin, and things I have found have been to sketch for me, or requiring memberships or even payments to join.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
if you’re looking for the babies first torrenting introduction, dbzer0 has a pretty comprehensive guide on it.
Might be worth looking into i2p as well, if you don’t want to spend any money on it at least. Usenets and closed trackers are a weird one, usually based on memberships, but with good quality control of members and content so.
there’s also the *arr stack but im sure there’s a write of that one up on github or something.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I poked around dbzer0 and found a few streaming sites, Nothing which carried anything i was particularly interested in.
Navigating this stuff without my ISP getting pissy is another hurdle, too.
It was much easier 20+ years ago when you just searched KaZaA or Limewire, or back when piratebay was the site (and before it got drowned in virus traps)
Petter1@lemm.ee 4 days ago
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D_Air1@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
To summarize what I was telling another person. The number of people who care are far outnumbered by the number of people who don’t. It doesn’t matter if you or I or all 10,000 (just a random number for the sake of argument) of the people subscribed to a sub like this were to cancel when r/justworks or r/normie (made up subreddits for the sake of argument) has 100,000,000 who don’t give a damn about computers, privacy, or anything else beyond the service working or not.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I agree. Tech communities have a habit of drastically over estimating how much everyone else cares about the details of tech.
Even something as simple as PC gaming scares off a lot of people because of the perception that you need to be some kind of tech wizard in order to cobble everything together to make a game run. Actual cobbling together of software to pirate (no matter how simple it seems to people in the know) is just a bunch of technobabble.
D_Air1@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I have people whom I still need to explain copy and paste to on a regular basis. Trust me, I understand.
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
I’m a millennial and sometimes I feel like we’re the only generation that learnt how to use computers properly. Boomers often aren’t great with tech, and neither are Gen Z / Alpha since they use phones and tablets far more.