Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
Posted by Meteorstar101@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 440 comments
Posted by Meteorstar101@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 440 comments
Obscure_Room@reddit
zoomers are anti piracy?
Rockman2isgud@reddit
No, companies are and everyone past Gen-Z hates companies. We love Piracy
ZachF8119@reddit
Who likes companies?
fortinbras_420@reddit
Consumerist slots
That category extends through all generations I'd imagine
SaltyChnk@reddit
Boomers
liluzibrap@reddit
Based username
Rockman2isgud@reddit
It’s a good game
liluzibrap@reddit
It is, but I prefer the X series. However, that MM2 intro theme as the camera is lifted up the building to see Megamans hair blowing in the wind is undefeated...
Rockman2isgud@reddit
That song is the best one in the series. Full stop. No contestants.
liluzibrap@reddit
I'd probably be inclined to agree. I still get goosebumps when I see the intro.
DatClown@reddit
Except a lot of gen Z and beyond grew up with app and game stores on both mobile and PC so they never actively look for alternatives. Back then you either hoped that the game you wanted was in your local store or you looked it up on whatever site you could trust not to give you computer AIDS.
Capnmarvel76@reddit
I know there was file sharing and zErO dAy WaReZ before it, but I think the true touchstone was whether you were around for Napster's prime (and Kazaa, Limewire, etc. after it). Napster was so easy, so widespread, it made everyone with a decent internet connection and a CD-R burner a pirate, and for some of us, lifelong ones.
lmay0000@reddit
You hate companies?
095805@reddit
There are very few companies that have not made their good/service actively worse over the past decade for an extra few bucks
Mattrockj@reddit
The exception being locally owned and family business.
Buying local >>>>>>>>>>>>> multinational conglomerate.
shamblam117@reddit
Costco seems to be pretty based
Mindlessgamer23@reddit
Costco is based AF. They treat their employees well, their customers well, and promote from within, all while keeping their profit margins razer thin for our benefit.
Many consulting firms keep claiming "if they just fuck over the customer a little bit, they'd make so much more money!"
But the execs say it's a slippery slope, and they won't be taking that step.
To this day there are finance bros that don't understand that treating the consumer well rather than their investors us why Costco is so successful. It's an exception to the standards they just can't wrap their heads around.
It's just small local business mindset on the scale of a super corporation, and we're all here for it!
095805@reddit
„if you change the price of the hotdog I’ll fucking kill you“
-Costco ceo or somethinh
Mindlessgamer23@reddit
Don't forget the rotisserie chicken, 5 bucks until the sun explodes
Sex_drugs_tacos@reddit
The greed is getting absurd, and now everyone is trying to push to subscriptions, which I will fight with every fiber of my being. Looking at you, Microsoft and adobe. Hoist the black flag, I say 🏴☠️
Rydagod1@reddit
Other than Costco. I can’t think of 1 company I like.
TallBoy24@reddit
I like Publix. They live up to their slogan, Shopping really is a pleasure there. Seems they pay good wages, everyone is super nice there, and kids get free cookies from the bakery. My 3 year old loves grocery shopping with me
Foxintoxx@reddit
Yeah .
Kitahara_Kazusa1@reddit
Less that they're anti piracy and more that they suck at it.
When you never actually have to figure out how computers work because you start out with an iPad, even figuring out how to download basic files off a torrent is hard, let alone the games that require a few more steps.
The_All_Knowing_Derp@reddit
Just for reference for everyone, gen z spans from 1995-2010/12, depending on who you ask. The ipad was released 2010. Crossing into the 2000s did not magically degrade everyone's common sense or see to it that every newborn has a computer on hand, and it may come as a surprise to some but most of gen z does in fact know how to use the internet, as you'd expect from a generation born in its wake.
But I digress, everybody loves a strawman argument if it gives them a sense of superiority
SteveMacAwesome@reddit
My brother in Christ, you are arguing against using logical fallacies to feel superior on r/greentext.
Termiborg@reddit
The '95-2000 segment is fine-ish. Those kids who came after? They really did grew up surrounded by simplicity. I have to train some with basic computer usage...
downvoting_zac@reddit
Forget computers, I have seen only 3 people born after 2004 that can even write. When I was growing up I never fathomed the sheer number of teenagers I’d have to teach the concept of “object permanence” to
Capnmarvel76@reddit
Ugh. I'm nearly 50 and I can't stand the 'these kids nowadays' crap. Every young generation since the beginning of time has been seen by their elders as useless, silly, selfish, violent morons who were bound to destroy society.
That's only ever been true of the baby boomers.
throwaway6444377_@reddit
preach brother preach!
throwaway6444377_@reddit
2003 checking in and tbh you're right
most people I know probably could not torrent if their life depnded on it, half of them are confused by the file explorer
Brokedownbad@reddit
I was born in 2005, what the fuck are you talking about
Interesting-Roll2563@reddit
Wow, a sweeping generalization doesn't apply exactly to you in particular? Shocking!
Klevo1@reddit
Also born in 2005, What the fuck are you on about?
Most Gen Z know how to use computers fine it's not like you magically get a phone the second you're born.
Interesting-Roll2563@reddit
If a person’s introduction to computing was fucking MS-DOS and they’ve kept up with it all this time, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say they probably have a deeper innate understanding than someone whose first real OS was Windows 8.
That doesn’t mean everyone born after 2000 is stupid, it just means you learn the technology of your time.
Depressed_Lego@reddit
Maybe sweeping generalizations just shouldn't be a thing we do because we dislike people?
Interesting-Roll2563@reddit
No generalization accounts for every individual, that's what makes a generalization. I don't think generalized statements are inherently bad, as long as they're based in fact. If you build a straw man for the purpose of shitting on a group of people you don't like, yeah that's weasel behavior.
Gytoss@reddit
Just because its a generalization, that doesnt make it valid to say. There are proper ones like “Living beings are made of cells” and there are improper ones like “Redditors are basement dwellers”. The latter usually resulting in prejudice, so its best to just be careful around them
Interesting-Roll2563@reddit
No argument here, I'm not the one who said it.
Gytoss@reddit
I think its fine in a 1 on 1 conversation, but I like to be careful about it online because there are genuinely prejudiced people that see stuff like that and misinterpret it and feel justified
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
Exactly this. You seem to have a complete inability to understand basic generalization if it doesn't apply to you specifically.
GAZUAG@reddit
They all have an inability to understand sweeping generalizations.
Brokedownbad@reddit
I also doesn't apply to literally anyone I know. Any of the people I knew in high school in my age group? Nope! Any of the people in high school younger than me? Nope! (save for like, two people)
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
You're still doing it lmao
Doomie_bloomers@reddit
Tbf a lot of people even from the 90s bracket don't know jack shit about pcs. At Uni the most important course for the early semesters is how to use a damn pc, and the IT part of just installing the damn programs needed is always the part that needs the most troubleshooting.
And folks from 2005 are 20yos now, not kids anymore. Young adults who know jack shit, except that pirating is based.
kulingames@reddit
i was born in 2004 and i am the most tech savvy person i know
Capnmarvel76@reddit
Well, I'd say royally fucking up a hardware install is a rite of passage for any generation.
I once messed up the pins on the bottom of a brand new Pentium processor (several hundred dollars in 2000), trying to swap it out on my PC. I took it back to the Frys I'd bought it from, and somehow convinced them to give me another. Then proceeded to do the exact same thing to that one.
kulingames@reddit
at least those pins were thick and if you were careful easy to straighten
SuperSocialMan@reddit
Yeah, my younger siblings were born after 2012 and can still barely do basic computer stuff - and we don't even own any tablets lol.
When I was 12, I was downloading Minecraft mods - and that was back in the olden days when you had to manually install forge as well.
John_isnt_my_name@reddit
I sure love when an old ass man whose in the vast minority for technological competence in his generation makes a stupid and vast generalization of a group of people.
Termiborg@reddit
I wouldn't go as far. Most of "my" generation ('92) are adequate with computers, and have no trouble with the basics, as long as they don't need admin rights (me being a certified professional will be ignored from now on). I work with people who are anywhere between early 20s to early 60s, and both peripheries have the same issue: Fear, or unwillingness to understand technology. Older workers like to say "that's your job" or "I am too old for this (changing default printer comes to mind), while the younger generation likes to tell me that it's so much easier to do on their handhelds to sort things out (installing Adobe or a PDF reader, etc). Is it easier? For sure. But Microsoft is basically working on the same these days with the "Company Portal" function, which is basically an app store for corporate users. My problem though is that this solves the issue, but won't make people any less dumb, or lazy.
adamhudsonj@reddit
I work with people who struggle to navigate Windows (i.e., the Snap feature).
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
I had a girlfriend born in the early 90's to whom it was news that you could maximize windows on her laptop.
SoupaMayo@reddit
that's why I always took offense when someone dare to say I'm a zoomer
MrEuphonium@reddit
Nope, early internet users explored an ocean, later users were raised on App Store island
Termiborg@reddit
A very apt comparison, yes.
takerjerbs@reddit
Sounds like you're an iPad kid zoomer cucklord.
jayeddy99@reddit
They can’t do that but ask me to do a tik tok with all the cool edits and I’m stuck
Longjumping-Car3624@reddit
Jailbreaking an iphone should be a mandatory course taught in schools
LizzieMiles@reddit
There’s also the fact that companies are getting better and better at combatting piracy, whereas in the early 90s, most anti-piracy efforts were low-effort outside of a few exceptions
Kitahara_Kazusa1@reddit
Maybe, I guess I don't try to pirate a lot of new games, but I've never had issues being able to pirate something that I wanted to play or watch.
HighlightSerious3348@reddit
As someone who is both young and a pirate, I can safely say 99% of my peers wouldn't know how torrenting works. Neither do I, because like everything else, piracy has gotten so much easier now and you don't need it when archive.org or somebody's shared Drive folder has every game and song in existence.
Kitahara_Kazusa1@reddit
I guess that works as long as you never want to torrent anything niche
Tonythesaucemonkey@reddit
Gen z did not grow up with iPads Gen alpha did.
skittlesdabawse@reddit
I'm gen Z and my primary school in France was one of the first to use iPads in class. Still hate the things tho.
Kitahara_Kazusa1@reddit
Depends, Gen Z is a pretty big range (as are all generations).
Gen Z born in 1995 is different from Gen Z born in 2010. One of those groups probably had to learn basic computer skills to make their computer work growing up, the other probably did not.
Termiborg@reddit
With cohorts, there's usually a transitional group between the previous and the "current" one. So called "zillenials", if you will. My wife falls into that category as well, since she is more or less handy with her Windows PC, but she grew up with the more "touchy" tech already. In this case, zillenial would fall between about '95-2000-ish, this is ridiculously hard to pin down.
Jonthux@reddit
This whole generation thing is really stupid
"Everyone from this generation is fucking stupid" then someone from that generation will say "But im an engineer" to which theyll have to respond "well not you specifically, but most"
loppyjilopy@reddit
this is true. many zoomers are stuck on a console and are not maintaining their own pcs
Mr-Stuff-Doer@reddit
It’s just gotten way harder. Back in the day you could watch entire seasons of anime on YouTube. Now you gotta pay a monthly fee for a vpn then find safe torrent sites and find safe torrents on that site
Astrian@reddit
Probably confusing zoomers refusal to torrent as being anti-piracy. I only really see oldheads still torrenting things when it’s by far easier to go to an illegal site that’s streaming what you wanna watch. Why would I torrent an anime when I can just go on a website and watch it?
DemiVideos04@reddit
You say that because you have a higher tolerance for bad quality streams. Sure its 1080p but all streaming sites have incredibly low bitrate. For 2d animation that is probably fine as they are much lower FPS anyway, but for movies anyone who really loves cinema 10,000kbps bitrate is an absolute minimum, and thats with 2 pass encoding.
Astrian@reddit
I saw Wicked on a TikTok stream with Portuguese subtitles. It could dip below 240p and I’ll still watch it
DemiVideos04@reddit
Because you aren't as passionate about movies, which is totally okay and is your preference. I was just answering your question as to why torrent something from the perspective of someone who really loves movies.
Astrian@reddit
Kinda weird to talk about passion for something in a thread about stealing but alright.
Jonthux@reddit
Honestly, real and based
Astrian@reddit
"I'm passionate about movies, not enough to pay money for them though"
Like lmao
DemiVideos04@reddit
You got it exactly right!
I love Tarantino movies, but he is a pedophile apologist. I'm also really glad I haven't ever supported Weinstein with my money.
What you are doing is false equivalence. Following your logic, if i pirate then i shouldn't want higher quality? Lol, why wouldn't i pirate the highest quality version? Nice ad hominem.
Astrian@reddit
Using high school literary terms doesn't make you smarter big dog. We're in a thread about piracy where I'm being shamed for being okay with convenience by cinema snobs that are supposedly passionate about the art form, but not enough to financially support it.
If you don't see the irony in that I can't help you.
DemiVideos04@reddit
On the other hand, discouraging proper debating etiquette with the pretext of anti-pretentiousness actively makes you stupider.
The disagreement between us now is that you think passion equates to, or maximizes at, financial support. Whereas I contend that to be categorically untrue, and would even go so far as to say it is ethically worse for me to do so in the context of the moral shortcomings of the companies that produce them. As such, within this viewpoint, it is not a logical fallacy to wish for better quality content when pirating, because I would be pirating in either case, low quality or high quality. And so, i choose high quality.
You moved the goalposts from "torrenting being unnecessary because streaming is good enough" to now "your goal of higher quality content is unjustified because you are pirating".
If you don't see the bad faith in that, i cant help you.
Astrian@reddit
Homie who are you debating? This isn't a debate, it's not even an argument lol.
Last thing I'm responding to, because I'm being real you on some psycho behavior thinking people can't just disagree on a topic and that this must be a debate. Never moved the goalpost, just don't see the logic in shaming someone for how they choose to consume their content off the basis of not being passionate enough. That's just straight up snobbery especially when at the end of the day we're on the same side.
It's not that serious. It's not that deep. It's a joke, light humor. If you want another one, try looking at the mirror you clown. Go to bed
Termiborg@reddit
Wanting quality, but not wanting to fund shitty companies at the same time is a VERY understandable stance.
AwiiWasTakenWasTaken@reddit
Not everyone has an entire NAS to host movies on Plex /Jellyfin.
Streaming services being as popular as they are tell me that most don't really care for image quality or bitrate.
DemiVideos04@reddit
I don't have whatever you are talking about. I just torrent and watch the content.
Yeah, i know. I didn't say otherwise.
Lev--@reddit
You act like websites aren't streaming at 1080p HD with no buffering issues
You spend less time finding a decent quality stream than you do downloading entire anime
DemiVideos04@reddit
I literally said the streams are 1080p, it is not the resolution of the streaming that i have an issue with or the buffering, it's the bitrate. Once you go 10000kbps, everything else is totally unwatchable. And as i said, if all you watch is anime of course you aren't going to notice the difference.
Capnmarvel76@reddit
I think the difference is that us old farts still like to own our media. As in, having an electronic copy of it in our possession that can't be spirited away by the whims of a media conglomerate (or a pirate streaming site). Comes from the fact that we (used to) buy physical media, and sometimes had to spend a lot of time looking for what we wanted if it was a little off the beaten track.
Younger folks grew up streaming, Why buy an album when you can just pull up a Spotify playlist? Why download a torrent file of a movie if you can just stream it?
Splatfan1@reddit
skill issue tbh. if your head cant fullscreen a watermark full 360p image to ignore the bad quality then i just feel sorry for you. i enjoy that shit as much as i do a movie when going to the cinema
beansahol@reddit
Setting up my own media server (jellyfin open source) and setting up qbittorrent with search plugins is the best thing I ever did for entertainment in my house. Any movie or tv, in 1080p or 4k, is just a click away. And you can easily link it to TV or projector.
IANVS@reddit
True...I'm a boomer and whenever I mention torrents to someone they give me the look and ask "why when you can just watch it online?".
Lev--@reddit
The answers I get from boomers and zoomerboomers about this are legit never satisfying
Is you internet not good enough to just stream the show?
beansahol@reddit
Because torrenting movies and tv, and putting them on your own media server, and then playing it on your tv or projector is the best!
Lolmemsa@reddit
I can just plug my laptop into my TV
Lev--@reddit
brother it is 2025, you can mostlikely mirror your device to your TV with smart view
beansahol@reddit
Sure, I really like Jellyfin though. Organises everything by series and episode, and I have it linked to a subtitle database as well. It also keeps track of where I'm up to, just like netflix etc. And it's open source. Idk I just really find it useful
RodjaJP@reddit
I personally dislike torrenting, I can see why is the best option, but every time I want to download something that only has torrents available it happens to be that there aren't enough seeders, and the few existing seeders are never connected
I rarely ever torrent something because of that, I'm more used to direct downloads even tho I know they may be slower
beansahol@reddit
qbittorrent with search plugins. It's incredibly rare to look for something and find that people aren't sharing it. Especially movies.
Capnmarvel76@reddit
There has been a serious drop-off in what's readily available (and has seeders) on torrent, though, especially if you're not looking for recently released or super popular stuff - movies, music, etc.
beansahol@reddit
To be honest I don't torrent music because I have spotify and I find streaming it a lot more convenient.
I'm a big fan of horror movies though, including older more obscure ones, and I haven't had any issue finding what I want.
Depends what trackers you're using I guess? I'd recommend adding search plugins for all the important trackers, and that covers a lot of ground. There's a big list of trackers that you can add when you enable the search plugins for qbittorrent. It's a lot quicker too because you don't have to bother with torrent sites, you can just search with the client plugin.
SchwiftySouls@reddit
What client and sites do you use for torrents? I use BitTorrent and piratebay proxies and I can always find something with at least a 5:1 ratio, even for my super obscure music and games.
Revolt_theCult@reddit
Because most free streaming sites you'll find serve 1080p content with a youtube quality bitrate if you're lucky. This can vary from show to show of course but I have DVDs lying around that look better than a lot of "HD" streams on those sites.
Aside from that, if you're after an older show with multiple home releases of varying quality, you're almost always going to get the lowest quality release compressed into oblivion from free streams.
Jonthux@reddit
Ive never had a problem with a streaming sited quality
Weird huh?
Termiborg@reddit
No, you just have a higher tolerance.
Jonthux@reddit
So what im hearing is that the rest of you are a bunch of bitches
PM_MEOttoVonBismarck@reddit
My coworker taught me how to torrent and while torrenting me some movies his motherboard melted. And later my motherboard melted. I'm not willing to torrent anymore.
Termiborg@reddit
Why would you download instead of stream? A streaming site has too many variables (website availability, bandwidth, bitrate, subtitle controls, DMCA, etc). My 8TB storage drive only asks for power.
l3gion666@reddit
Levidia 🫶
Legend13CNS@reddit
In my experience they're very in support of the concept, but if the process is more than a one-click download or logging in to a single experience you've lost 80% of them. Of the remaining 20%, about half will just Google "Download [movie/game/etc] 2025 free", click the first link, get a virus (or have their anti-virus freakout), and then never do it again. Never mind the "hard" stuff like troubleshooting a repack that's janky, revancing, or setting up adblockers/piholes.
Rapierre@reddit
generational skill issue
Jonthux@reddit
Piracy is an availability issue
Basically, why risk viruses when you can just buy the game you want on steam with 5 bucks, no risk, 2 weeks time to return if you dont like it
Unless you dont want to support the devs
Termiborg@reddit
Because we're not talking about the 5$ releases, the piracy rate with those is significantly smaller than a AAA or God-forbid AAAA release. Case in point, I am not paying a single cent for Ubisoft for the shit they produce, because it's not worth it, nor gonna torrent it because I am not interested. But if I was, I would go with the piracy route.
Capnmarvel76@reddit
Lol, I was just going to say I'm never going to lose a minute of sleep pirating a Ubisoft game.
Jonthux@reddit
Calling them shit then pirating them has to be the funniest thing ive ever heard
Brother, if you dont like it, dont play it, if you like it, 5 bucks for the devs is a good trade
Rapierre@reddit
Tbf Ubisoft games are pretty much worth $5, and well made indie games are easily worth quadruple that
Ilysumo55@reddit
Hard disagree more zoomers than ever are setting up their own private networks to watch shit and learning to torrent seed and everything in between
stebgay@reddit
I helped some dude who couldn't watch a show because his country doesn't let him watch it legally on a tiktok comment section, some zoomer replied to me "Its sad that you even know that site"
retsoPtiH@reddit
zoomers when you tell them you can have free shit instead of paying a monthly subscription billed annually for Goobi: 👁️👄👁️
Ilysumo55@reddit
Hi Zoomer here who is in university let me just say we LOVE piracy and anyone who says we don't doesn't know anyone who is Gen Z.
Dunno if you've noticed but we are poor with a capital P, so getting to enjoy media without a stupid paywall is what really helps us especially ones like me who are barely staying on top of the necessities. I've even helped some of my friends learn to pirate i.e VPN's blockers etc
TLDR Zoomers love piracy
BirbsAreSoCute@reddit
Look, generational hate and generalization
choose2822@reddit
What can I say, I'm a generational hater
Termiborg@reddit
Welcome to the internet, you must be new.
ShortTheseNuts@reddit
Yes
Never_The_Hero@reddit
It's because streaming services have made it so easy and cheap that no one needs to pirate anymore.
Jonthux@reddit
Exactly
Except streaming services are becoming more like cable tv again, which will propably lead to an increase in piracy
Captain_Sacktap@reddit
I think it’s less that they’re particularly anti-piracy and more that a way smaller percentage of their generation is as tech savvy as the Millenials. Zoomers have grown up with streamlined, user friendly software and hardware so that’s mostly what they know how to use. And while pirating stuff isn’t really more complicated than it was 20 years ago, fewer Zoomers actually know how to do so.
encrustingXacro@reddit
I think it's less that we're anti-piracy and more that most of us don't pirate/know how to.
HumbleContribution58@reddit
I think it's more that they are extremely ignorant of it and how to do it. Ironically the younger generations are actually a lot less tech savvy because so many processes and programs are automated or absurdly simplified these days especially on apple products.
CaeciliusEstInPussy@reddit
no
Danijay2@reddit
I blame the growing technological illiteracy of the youth. I mean people these days don't even know how to properly use search engines anymore. So anything that isn't a easy to use social media website seem way to daunting to be worth it to them.
I on the other hand. Only ever paid for things if i wanted to support someone. But it never even crossed my mind to pay for music or anything like that. I mean youtube is right fucking there. And downloading a song is basically a button away.
SuperSocialMan@reddit
It's definitely this imo.
I mentioned it in another comment, but my youngest siblings (born after 2012) can't even do basic computer stuff (shortcuts, navigating file explorer, downloading files (even if it's just a picture), etc.)
My brother & I have tried to teach them, but they just don't retain it for god knows what reason.
When I was 12 - 13, I was nodding Minecraft and downloading shit all the time - hell, I still use most of the file organization system I came up with back then.
Danijay2@reddit
Downloading music for free. Watching movies for free. Downloading games for free. And then modding them are in my eyes, all skills anyone using a computer has, should know.
Legend13CNS@reddit
You're dead one, it's way more this than any barrier put up by companies. It's wild how many conversations I've had with people in the 20-30 year old range that go more or less:
"Ugh I hate all the subscriptions I need for everything".
You know you can get most of that for free, right?
"No way, how???"
[Give like 45 second elevator pitch for way to pirate the thing they want]
"Nah that's way too much work".
bronzewillis@reddit
The zoomies prioritize convenient more than anything nowadays. It only took them 5 sec to log in to Netflix, why waste an extra 10 sec for a different sites that offers the same shit for freeeeeeee
Caylife@reddit
To be fair Netflix offers is pretty solid service. You can watch from multiple devices and it's pretty cheap. Downloading every single movie and series individually takes plenty of time and then they are only on 1 device. Netflix is just 9 euros/month or even less if you share the better plan with family members.
Do I wanna use the time to torrent for free and risk potential viruses when I can just pay 7 euros/month and switch platform whenever I've watched everything I wanted to.
bronzewillis@reddit
No one said you need to log into some shady ass website or download some illegal shit. There are sites that stream movies for free and update pretty fcking fast, just install ublocks so it block the pop up ads, don't click on the "local milfs in your area"(if they somehow still pop up). Then you are pretty good to go
Caylife@reddit
Well those are of course option if you know where to find them and in most EU countries even legal if only streamed. Thought most of those sites died in earliy 2010's and personally haven't had the need to use them as Netflix/HBO are fairly cheap. These days I use streaming sites only for sports as those are actually expensive.
bronzewillis@reddit
I mean your money your choice bud. But for me, I'm not the most smart guy on these kind of thíng. So all I did is just google "where to watch pirated movies" - Reddit, then I got recommend like a thousand of those, so just pick whatever that work
Danijay2@reddit
Yep. Had a very similair conversation not to long ago about movie streaming.
Why pay 10 or 20 or whatever for a streaming website. When i have all the same movies without region lock for free? And the website is literally easier to set up then netflix.
But since it's more out of the way almost no one in my age range uses it.
BirbsAreSoCute@reddit
Do you not step outside ever?
Danijay2@reddit
I do. Which is why i know what i know.
RenkBruh@reddit
I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people who are unable to use the internet despite being born INTO it. I'm quite young btw, but still, surprised af
Danijay2@reddit
Probably a mixture of fearmongering from their parents. And ease of use for the most popular websites.
I can remember how the first chat groups worked. And i'm not talking about myspace or some shit. But the real first internet forums and chat groups. When floppy disks were still in use.
I mean i personally never used them. But my Father did every now and then to trouble shoot some of his tech projects. And i can distinctily remember you had to be half a tech whizz like my dad to get anywhere on those convuluted and confusing forums.
That shit to me looked like what my software developing little brother does today for a living. Except if my little brother has problems he just asks chat gpt. If my dad had problems he had to suck it up and figure it out.
Which is why i still go to my dad with tech and computer problems. Not my brother. Despite him working in the field. And he does too. He still goes to my father with any hardware problems.
Legitimate-Ad-6267@reddit
Being born alongside its growth gives you more practical knowledge than being born into it. Experimental technology is dead, a lot of self repairs are dead, and I had never even heard the term "torrent" in a computer sense until maybe a year ago
JosephNuttington@reddit
steam is just such a good service i really only need to pirate adobe products at this point
bayygel@reddit
Except for all of the games that come forced with their own terrible third party launcher.
Looking at you, UBISOFT
Cliff_Excellent@reddit
And EA
Medusa107@reddit
I don't understand how steam is any more convenient though. Its literally around the same number of clicks....
Jonthux@reddit
All your games in one place
Updates just work
Multiplayer
Friends list
No problems with possible viruses
Its just really easy and simple to use
Like steam is literally the best thing to happen to gaming in ever. There is simply no need to pirate games. None at all
skate_squirrel@reddit
Unless the game is abandonware, in which case pirating is the only option
Jonthux@reddit
Agreed
Stumpedforausername1@reddit
Money
NCD_Lardum_AS@reddit
Okay now update your game. Use the steam workshop. Play multiplayer.
Add to that the fact that most people don't want to steal and that video games are really not that expensive.
Stumpedforausername1@reddit
Video games are expensive when you live in a 3rd world country, even with the regional pricing. At least full price AAA games are.
SergDerpz@reddit
Expensive?! You mean people who earn 300-400$ a month don't want to pay 80$ for a game?
Shocker!!
/s
TheBigToast72@reddit
Yeah people are confusing pro convenience with anti privacy.
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
It's not that we've become anti piracy. It's just that a lot of work has been put into fighting piracy and there have been a lot of decent alternatives to piracy such as steam but also (and I hate subscription based anything but hear me out) paying a small amount of money to listen anything you want rather than having to pay a few bucks for every song you'd like to listen to.
That being said, piracy is as far removed from dead as you can imagine. Just that it's become a lot more difficult to pirate and a lot easier to consume legally. Whether that's fair (like with genuinely good products made by small producers) or not (big corpo slop)
scytheforlife@reddit
its so easy to pirate now i have no idea what shoe shine your sniffing
ryanpn@reddit
You also have to keep in mind that basic computer literacy is in the gutter right now. Most kids exposer to tech is almost exclusively in app based systems like smartphones or Chromebooks.
Even basic piracy required that you know how to make and use folders and I don't think most kids know how to do that anymore.
scytheforlife@reddit
Basic piracy in the sense of downloading something. Streaming free music, tv series and movies is easier than ever.
ryanpn@reddit
It still requires basic computer skills, you can't just get a piracy app off the app store
SirChasm@reddit
It is kinda wild that "downloading an app file off of Github and installing it" is now considered advanced computer skills.
Mr-Stuff-Doer@reddit
Yeah lemme download a million viruses real quick
BoxofJoes@reddit
Dude when I get bored I help answer questions posted in the discord of a pretty popular pokemon romhack, and jesus the number of kids for whom I need to explain how to download the actual patch and not the source code off github, and that the patch isnt the game itself is astounding. I used to make fun of red circle image shit because I thought it was inane and redundant, but no it turns out a lot of people actually need it or they’re completely lost.
Yum-z@reddit
Let alone the ever increasingly exclusive skill of figuring out which download button is the real one and not an immediate infusion of 50 million viruses into your computer
Mr-Stuff-Doer@reddit
Then tell me where you’re going for this shit, anime and hentai are the only ones that are easy to find
Affectionate-Cod4152@reddit
It has become harder for people to pirate things compared to before, but not because the act itself has become harder but because the people who would be pirating are less proficient in the use of computers.
catluvr37@reddit
There is an ungodly amount of 1 minute videos that can solve that for you. Google it!
Smiley_Face_Pancake@reddit
Ngl ive always been scared that if I google how to pirate stuff I’m gonna get a threatening letter from my ISP or something lol
ActualWeed@reddit
I have been pirating my whole life and never got any such letter or warning.
Quinnmeister@reddit
When I was younger I pirated Game of Thrones and got a letter from HBO about it. I was terrified at the time but feel mildly cool about it now lol.
Smiley_Face_Pancake@reddit
A friend of mine told me he pirated tears of the kingdom on launch day and got a warning from their ISP so that’s what put the idea in my head
ActualWeed@reddit
Oh yeah there are some countries that are strict with it, I know Germany really doesn't like pirating.
Idk if a VPN actually works with pirating, might wanna check that out.
Smiley_Face_Pancake@reddit
I live in the US, I assume it was just cuz it was such a big title on launch day or something. I pirate old games all the time, just new stuff that makes me nervous lol
vladmashk@reddit
ISPs can't know what you google. Because of HTTPS, the only thing they see is a request to 'www.google.com' and everything else is encrypted.
catluvr37@reddit
That would never happen. The only thing you need a VPN for is torrenting major IP’s, like Disney movies.
You also have to understand there is no law against streaming it. It is illegal to host the content, but not access it.
Termiborg@reddit
Country dependent.
Termiborg@reddit
Unless you live in China, that is a non-issue. Otherwise if you live in a place that enforce piracy laws, use a VPN. In places where it's a legal gray zone, nobody gives af.
PanPalCenter@reddit
It’s not that it’s overly difficult. People pay for convenience and certainty. It’s a maybe that you’d find a functioning site with your favorite movie that runs smoothly (and has working subtitles). If you pay for a service you don’t need to use what little free time you have to do things like that.
catluvr37@reddit
What if I told you there’s an entire website dedicated to consolidating links to 50+ websites?
You’d be like “free media, heck yeah”. Now try that on your googles
Mizzuru@reddit
Another element is people often watch stuff directly via smart TVs.
I have a PC but I'm 100% more likely to watch TV and Movies on my Smart TV with my partner or friends and it's way easier to do that with the inbuilt stuff rather than bringing my tower down to watch something.
CptSandbag73@reddit
Plex and other apps solve that problem. The vast majority of streaming sticks and smart TVs have that app or other similar ones.
Having to use HDMI from a PC is so 2010.
CakeIsATotalLie@reddit
could a homie get that website actually?
PanPalCenter@reddit
Most people don’t want to sort through those usually janky websites to find what works. Also most people don’t know what an adblocker extension is. That’s my point.
You or I will probably go through the trouble but not the majority of the population.
catluvr37@reddit
Ironically, it’s easier for me to use websites because I can’t be bothered to track what streaming service has each movie/show. It’s nice having everything in one website.
But it’s like any skill. You spend a small time to learn and you reap a lifetime of rewards. More power to people that’d rather pay 8 different companies to have it in 1 button. I’ll have mine in 2 buttons and without the headache.
ActualWeed@reddit
Or you just pay 10 euros a month for unlimited music and you buy the games on steam for cloud saves and workshop support.
Yum-z@reddit
The amount of time I’ve had to tell at my zoomer siblings to google shit rather than going up to people and asking the most inane questions fills me with doubt that zoomers nowadays have the ability to mentally transcribe their question to the address bar let alone google
CreepHost@reddit
My biggest bottleneck was trying to find a decent tutorial that isn't just a literal scam, as piracy still and always will have the risk of running into malware.
And I know that r/piracy exists, but even there I've not found a decent-ish guide.
theyeshman@reddit
1) find and install torrent client of your choice
2) find torrent site
3) search up what you're looking for
4) click magnet link
CreepHost@reddit
And how do I know what torrents are safe and what aren't?
theyeshman@reddit
File size and extentions are the easiest way, obviously downloading zips and exes are far riskier than audio/video formats. I legitimately don't understand how someone could get a virus downloading only audio and video, and steam is so good there's basically no reason to torrent games.
Besides that some sites have verified uploaders who could but are less likely to upload viruses.
High_Gothic@reddit
literally, these people are just excusing their anti-piracy indoctrination
CreepHost@reddit
The fuck are you talking about?
At least the other commenter is helpful enough to guide one out of this "anti-piracy indoctrination" lmao
lildobe@reddit
Don't forget a good VPN service to hide your IP address, or your ISP is gonna start sending you nasty notes when the RIAA and MPAA start sending them C&D letters.
theyeshman@reddit
There are people who don't use VPNs in 2025?
46692@reddit
As soon as you need to explain, “so first download a vpn, then a torrent program” it’s over for 80% of people.
scytheforlife@reddit
who the hell needs a vpn
Supershadow30@reddit
It has become harder for the casual internet audience to find easy ways to pirate stuff.
HyperlexicEpiphany@reddit
you’re
replace it with “you are”
SolenoidsOverGears@reddit
If you use a PC. Barely anyone does anymore. Not privately, unless they game. Everyone's on a cell phone now.
If I wanted to pirate something, I would need to open my laptop, purchase a VPN from somewhere, go to some sketchy website to either BitTorrent or download, hope it didn't give my computer AIDS, and then probably transfer it to my phone somehow because that's where I watch most movies these days. Or, I can pay for my Amazon subscription, and rent movies from time to time. But, I haven't done any piracy since I was in like high school.
displayboi@reddit
Yeah, nowadays thanks to streaming services you can get most movies and series pirated on day one instead of having to wait months until someone rips it from a DVD or watch a shitty recording from the cinema.
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
Yeah problem is I want to watch good movies. Not waste my time on trash because there are no honest reviews on Netflix/Amazon.
Much easier to look at IMDB, sort by best rated then download the movie manually.
Capnmarvel76@reddit
You're going to get infinitely better quality entertainment that way, too.
displayboi@reddit
Oh no, I meant that everything gets published on the main streaming services which makes it much easier to get pirated content since pirates just record it form there on the first days.
RodjaJP@reddit
Man, the last time I had a pirated cinema record was Shrek 3, I even had it on a cassette XD but since I was young I thought it was normal to hear laughs in the backgrounds like in some older tv shows even tho Shrek never had them
_Addi-the-Hun_@reddit
Music piracy is actually a worse product then streaming,
Tv shows and movies must be pirated before netflix pulls episode for being racist or simply removes the show
Video game piracy is still big in the 3rd world but genz mainly plays online multiplayer games
lildobe@reddit
In what way? A FLAC rip of a vinyl (if done with quality equipment) or a CD is a bit-perfect, lossless copy.
What you get on Streaming Services isn't much better than a 192kbps MP3. (Though these days they're usually using AAC instead of MP3)
_Addi-the-Hun_@reddit
I have like 2000 songs on Spotify. I am not going to spend like 3 days stright typing them in, downloading them in FLAC quality just to play them from my headphones by my phone that doesnt even have a FLAC DAC.
Anyway Spotify is a better product then music piracy since it has almost every song making discovering new music easy as fuck, It also let's u and friends que songs together for the same speakers ( like for road trips etc) u can ask Spotify to find music of a similar vibe to any song on there, if u have someone's Spotify account u can quickly ask it to make a playlist based on both our music tastes.
Like it's just neet, the quality is more then good enough, it has all these nice features, and basically everyone uses it
Blexcellent@reddit
Most people are listening to music on entry level headphones and quality doesn't matter to them. The convenience of having most of the music you would ever want available 24/7 wherever you are without having to maintain an offline library is worth the money Spotify charge per month.
ComNguoi@reddit
Find me a pirated version of DJmax Respect, or Muse Dash that's up-to-date with the Steam Version and allows for account sync.
Techno-Diktator@reddit
Many new games especially with Denuvo just don't get cracked, that's the issue.
Screlingo@reddit
Yes and no. On a pc sure, but getting a pirated stream to work on a smart tv, console, chromecast, firetv stick, appletv etc. is a pain in the butt most of times.
Holy_Sword_of_Cum@reddit
Its so easy to pirate when you know how to but most people arent that computer literate nowadays, and companies are actively trying to make pirating harder so people dont bother learning even though its piss easy when you actually start
torolf_212@reddit
Right, it's easy, but you've got to put in some amount of effort to do it rather than just browsing an online store and hitting buy now
It's a little bit more complicated than it used to be (download limewire/kazza/napster/whatever, type in the song you want and download, then hope it's not a virus). I feel it's just easy enough to buy something legally that most people will rake the convenience over the cost
undreamedgore@reddit
I straight up don't know how besides online streaming, and then I don't know where.
It's not like there's an easily accessible pdf guide.
adduckfeet@reddit
the piracy subreddit wiki is pretty much exactly that. Hundreds of sites for all sorts of shit, ratings, best practices, etc
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
20 years ago it used to take like 20 minutes to download one song 😂
SirChasm@reddit
And then when you get your song it's an exe for some reason 😂
hunter54711@reddit
Man a lot of my fellow Gen Z don't understand how a file structure works, extracting files and running a .exe file is too much for a lot of Gen Z, let alone potentially needing the right redistributables to run the game.
On the movie and show front, a lot of Gen Z do pirate, a lot of them use stuff like KissAnime or 123movies but nobody torrents. Which is a shame because I can't stand those websites, nothing worse than buffering in the middle of watching.
Prestigious-Fig1172@reddit
I used to know like 10 free movie websites, and only one of them is left .
Adulations@reddit
I grew up in the 90s posting is now easier than ever before.
untakenu@reddit
It's easier than ever to pirate.
The are easily found hacked versions of apps, streaming sites, downloads and everything. And the blatant malware that you'd expect has all but disappeared on a lot of these.
If anything, it is harder to justify paying for streaming services because they're so fractured. Why pay 25 a month for 2 services just to watch a few shows when I can watch them for free in one place?
ohSpite@reddit
Yeah as a 10 year old kid I used limewire daily to download music. Now I just use Spotify. I'll still pirate things that are inconvenient (fuck you apple TV) but overall now that I have money I'm like whatever I'll just pay for convenience
SchwiftySouls@reddit
and it doesn't work. Google literally anything with "free download/torrent" on the end, and you'll get so many results.
I pirate just about everything and per item, it takes an average of two minutes per thing; be that music, games, apps, mobile games, etc,.
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
And how many of those are false flags or scams? I haven't pirated anything for a while anymore, last time I checked 99% of those links didn't actually give you what you were looking for except malware.
SchwiftySouls@reddit
I have genuinely never gotten malware that im aware of. I use SoulSeek for music on mobile, ytmp3 for PC, piratebay for games/apps on PC, and Aptoide for games/apps on mobile.
If you're not running an AdBlocker for either of those, you're already starting off on the wrong foot.
But, I mean, that doesn't differ much from normal search results. A little bit of internet literacy goes a long way, and you can usually tell just by the url if a site is a scam or not. Same with researching articles, finding solutions for technical issues, etc,. Most of what you'll find is slop that isn't related to what you're looking for.
High_Gothic@reddit
Bro, using ytmp3 for music is ludicrous in this day and age, it caps off at 256 kbps iirc
SchwiftySouls@reddit
it's not specifically ytmp3 I use, it's some offshoot made by a person I found here on reddit, but that allows for 320kbps. ytmp3 is just the closest name I could think of bc I was at work. I'll look for it and edit the link it.
WTFMEEPONOULTILVL6@reddit
No-one tell him about cracked spotify
b3rn13mac@reddit
nobody tell him about soulseek
High_Gothic@reddit
nobody tell them about rutracker
BirbsAreSoCute@reddit
People classifying the entirety of Gen Z as anti-piracy as if I haven't been using Revanced Youtube and Spotify for the past year and a half
Ta_PegandoFogo@reddit
>it's become a lot more difficult to pirate
Dude, in what world do you live? No matter the game, in less than 6 months, it's already cracked. There's entire sites dedicated entirely to piracy, as well as discord servers, telegram groups, subreddits, communities etc. It's easier than it has ever been.
LasyKuuga@reddit
Piracy was harder back in the day
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
You're kidding right? We had widely known websites back then that offered anything you wanted with a search function (Pirate Bay) and a community system (kickass torrents). Nowadays if you look for a piracy website, at least for games, all you'll get is fitgirl and IGG and IGG gives you malware so your choice is pretty limited. Anything else has been taken offline by court order, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong
LasyKuuga@reddit
Nah theres way more choices. choices then IGG and Fitgirl you can find guides on how to do it too.
Back in the day the biggest piracy streaming was megavideo and you got 72 mins before they put you on a break. Antiviruses were also way weaker so you had to be way more careful I still remember ressetting my PC every so often because of FBI "Your Computer Has Been Locked" is a ransomware . Nowadays you actually have to try to get a virus.
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
I'll agree if your PC does get infected it's less impactful but in my opinion there is still a lot of nasty shit on piracy sites. It's just either caught earlier or less impactful (like random bloatware that installs itself with the shit you just pirated)
LasyKuuga@reddit
Just used trusted sites but if you doing something like streaming movies and stuff it’s definitely way easier nowadays.
It’s pretty damn hard to get a virus nowadays unless you download something
Wasabaiiiii@reddit
Eh piracy is still roughly the same today, you can play Nintendo games on websites now, so easier than ever.
It’s just that corps made shit super convenient in their own retail sites, it’s easier and more convenient to just buy a AAA game than it is to pirate one.
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
I’m glad they did.
I don’t want anyone to pirate, just a small % is fine.
If everyone did it there would be no movies/games for me to pirate lol
JerryUitDeBuurt@reddit
Piracy is fair for some products. Others not so much. For example, I've been playing schedule 1 which I think is a fantastic fucking game and for 16 bucks I don't think you can really argue for piracy except maybe that it's made by 1 guy and it's sold probably about a million copies by now so he's going to be set for life anyways. I have one friend that pirated the game and my entire friend group shat on him for it and rightfully so.
But pirating anything made by Ubisoft/EA/Activision/other scummy gaming corporation is absolutely fine and in my opinion should be actively encouraged as long as those companies still charge full price for games that have been out for almost 2 decades (looking at Activision still charging 40 bucks for CoD: Black ops 1)
Electronic_Warning49@reddit
Right on both points.
I used to only pirate movies and now I stream them or purchase digital copies.
First time Amazon blocks one of my purchases I'm throwing the eye patch and hook hand back on. I'm already almost fed up with it due to the increasing costs
siLtzi@reddit
The convenience of just using Steam or streaming services just make it a better option. I can't remember the last time I pirated a game.
I also couple months ago tried multiple of those free websites that have almost everything from the few biggest streaming services, and I swear they all suck hairy asshole so much. The bitrates are fucked, the colors are mega fucked, they're all like 17fps for some reason, audio quality is shit. Never again.
Drew1231@reddit
Option 1: pay steam $30, get cloud saves and the ability to play it on steam deck, plus support the indie dev
Option 2: download the game and try to install a crack which installed chrome for some reason. Now the game is running 7 versions ago and I’m soft locked because of a bug. Find an update, but now the crack doesn’t work and I really want to play, so maybe I’ll click the shady link. Fuck it didn’t work and now chrome has 6 toolbars.
GoldenGecko100@reddit
I like to support the devs who make the games I like. If there's a game that I'm only tangentially interested in or the dev kinda sucks I'll pirate it. Or if it's an Epic exclusive.
Also pirate Adobe products at all possible opertunities.
HatJosuke@reddit
Pirating is no longer more convenient than supporting creators, and people are much more aware of how much creatures make. We don't just have this vague notion that they're billionaires anymore because they made something
fleetingreturns1111@reddit
I'm autistic and so I took those anti piracy psas from the early 2000s way too seriously and literally. It's really hard to find good piracy resources where it won't give my computer aids
EatAllTheShiny@reddit
Paying money for something you don't actually own is the crazy part.
I got blackpilled on the digital era when I transferred all my hard bought music mp3s over to my mac, and imported them into itunes, and it auto replaced all my mp3s with the Apple licensed versions, including just erasing a bunch of rare session songs and and replacing with with Apples version.
Thank God I had all that saved on an external drive, ffs.
Fit_Cake_8227@reddit
Hard times create strong men and so on. Growing up on windows 2k and XP took some knowing how to work a pc, if just the basics, take a look at iPad kids, they’re scared shitless of computers
InsertaGoodName@reddit
People who feel superior for pirating are annoying.
FrazzleFlib@reddit
people who pirate anything and everything, yeah absolutely. but i can forgive feeling a little superior over people paying out the nose for multiple adobe products
rgjsdksnkyg@reddit
The problem is that someone has to pay for Adobe in order for the product to stay alive. Their last proposed pricing model absolutely sucks, but if a product doesn't receive funding, they'll stop developing for it, which will lead to unsafe and broken products.
Every time someone files a bug report or finds a vulnerability, someone has to fix that code, and to do that in a professional and timely way costs money. This is the reason why you don't see any open source projects that come close to offering what different Adobe products do - if it could be done for free, we would all be using the free thing.
Old-Implement-6252@reddit
Fuck Adobe, they're subscription model is total BS.
BoxofJoes@reddit
Same thing for ms office and windows, the fact that microsoft official support recommends a “piracy” method for when their software shits itself is astounding to me, good thing said method is publicly available and very easy to find
Conorcat@reddit
Yep. Just acknowledge that you're taking somebody's work without paying for it because you want to, and the labour they put it into making the game doesn't matter enough to you to be rewarded.
Jonthux@reddit
Some pirates do sound really entitled
Basically, what if everyone thought like you and stopped buying stuff? The natural conclusion is that stuff wouldnt be made anymore
There are issues of availability that piracy can solve tho, like if a game is not sold anymore or its locked on an old console that you can only buy from collectors for hundreds or download
What im saying is if something is on steam, buy for five bucks. Of its not, piracy is more than justified
Also, its not stealing, saying piracy is stealing is like saying that taking a picture of a painting is stealing
BoxofJoes@reddit
Yeah nintendo is completely baffling because of how gung ho they are with combatting piracy while simultaneously leaving a ton of their IPs to rot and not porting a ton of their older games to modern platforms.
bronzewillis@reddit
Too bad huh
PeterPorty@reddit
Is it at all difficult to type with all those cocks up your ass?
CommercialSpray254@reddit
this is me and being annoying also makes me happy
RetroTheGameBro@reddit
I don't think people are any more/less anti-piracy.
I think Steam and Game Pass, along with being a little quieter about blatant piracy because companies are petty and will actively go after emulator devs just means you hear about it less.
official_swagDick@reddit
I think this is the truth. Dolphin was on steam for like a month before being removed. You have to stay low-key about it and honestly if only people who really want/know that's fine. If piracy was so common place that companies actually lost sizeable amounts of money instead of losing out to a fringe minority of people of whom will probably not buy the product any ways then there isn't a financial incentive to go after them
Parking-Frame812@reddit
No clue i am experiencing the same, they all don't pirate
posting_drunk_naked@reddit
"why would anyone pay for something you know is legitimate when you can risk downloading viruses for free??"
No shade to those who choose to pirate games and software, but you know damn well you're taking huge risks and I am in a financial position where I'd rather cough up a few bucks than risk getting hacked.
What if they steal my meme collection??
GoodlifeFOB@reddit
I would not say they are anti piracy, i think plataforms like Steam made getting games more easy.
When i was younger the only way i could play games is through piracy
LabCoatGuy@reddit
No free VPN that can download worth a shit. You gotta pay no matter what
Thin-Concentrate5477@reddit
I used to pirate when I couldn't afford it. Nowadays I don't mind paying a subscription for music and some games. Mostly I have been playing chess and Lichess is free, so, whatever. I might eventually donate.
The only thing I think should be uncerimoniously pirated are college books from some (not all) mercenary publishers.
QTG_Timeless@reddit
Wanna play a game? I'm rated 1500 rapid
Thin-Concentrate5477@reddit
Sure. How do I find you on Lichess ?
KnownAsAnother@reddit
I just like my physical copies and steam discounts things like crazy.
But movies and music? Yeah no brainer.
RobinTheMan@reddit
I think piracy should be reserved as a boycotting tool
Space_frog91@reddit
If it comes from a soulless company or with Denuvo, I sail the 7 seas. If I really like the work of an indie dev, I'm gonna pay for it. If they tell people to pirate their game or don't shame people for pirating, they get my money. I want to reward amazing work and good people and to me it's the equivalent of tipping.
Don-Gabo@reddit
Most young people can't even install software on a computer properly
Organic-Ad-9120@reddit
"You wouldnt steal a car would you?"
-I would if I can just torrent it
anal_opera@reddit
Imagine 3d printing an entire car. Right down to the brakes.
Stupid commercials never saw that one coming. It's legal to download a car now.
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
Wasn’t it… “you wouldn’t download a car”?
Or am I misremembering?
FeralGerbal64@reddit
I recently also watched a YouTube video where the guy said "You wouldn't steal a car..." instead of download. I thought I was misremembering.
Batuhaninho5792@reddit
No, you aren't
Squawnk@reddit
They are tho, idk if I'd call it a Mandela effect but everyone quotes it as "you wouldn't download a car" but the actual text in the ad said "you wouldn't steal a car"
Squawnk@reddit
You're misremembering. It's "you wouldn't steal a car" not download
DoomerGrill@reddit
Same thing tho.
Would if I could.
HyperionPhalanx@reddit
Damn things are a petabyte at least
Nobody got time fo dat
OldBMW@reddit
Honestly at my (normal in my country) network speeds it would take 92.5 days to download. Would wait for that lol
ptjp27@reddit
Meanwhile AI companies stole the entire internet and nobody gives a fuck
Lazarous86@reddit
Yeah. You mean I make an exact copy of a car someone else has, but then I have the same car for free. Yeah, I don't think anyone will care.
VoDoka@reddit
"Let's check out that dudes playlist."
a_9x@reddit
Maaan I remember watching that ad while watching pirated DVDs. Good times
Tonythesaucemonkey@reddit
I would if someone is giving it to me for free.
RodjaJP@reddit
I would if I could clone it without anyone noticing
gintoki_1513@reddit
No, at most millennials and boomers are the most anti privacy not zoomer.
Metelic@reddit
Piracy is easier than ever now you don’t even have to download anything now with pirate streaming sites.
akamalk@reddit
The true is that people would pay services if they are cheap and are work good enough, most of the normies won't go to a Russian Forum to download a copy of a cracked version of a game, you need certain kind of autism or hate for corporations to do it. The good thing is that after you do it you understand that entertainment doesn't have a price by itself, and it's your decision to support companies if you liked the product or just forget about it and go to your own way.
captainfalconxiiii@reddit
It’s not that we’re anti piracy, we just grew up with streaming services, which initially were more convenient than piracy, so we never learned how to pirate
Lev--@reddit
More like the millennials who grew up pirating and know how to private are shutting down the means of piracy now that they are the ones who are selling the games
xyrus02@reddit
Many stopped pirating when Steam developed into a chad platform. Plus there is GOG, which is gigachad with no-drm and offline installers.
ImdumberthanIthink@reddit
Because propaganda
Laxhoop2525@reddit
Because paying $0.99 for a game that’s normally $40 and getting all of the achievements that come with it is more entertaining than potentially getting a virus by pirating.
the_lag_behind@reddit
Going off of the image here, I don’t think anyone but a Nintendo executive sees emulators as piracy. Especially if said game is no longer being made.
bisky12@reddit
lol yeah why won’t people pirate music off limewire and give their computer cyber aids anymore guys come on what are you all cucks or something?
DUBToster@reddit
I rather play assassins creed pirated than paying anything for that
minecraftrubyblock@reddit
GenZ here, we're still pirating.
Hell, I'm currently teaching early gen alpha on how to pirate safely
BowlsDeepRamen@reddit
By now, some millenials may be brainwashed enough to think "durrr I'm too regarded to pirate anything so I pay my monthly 200$ to all my streaming services like a good boy so anyone who refuses to pay is not a good boy and therefore I'm against them"
SibrenTF@reddit
Zoomers are the most pro-piracy people I’ve ever met. It’s mostly younger millennials that will report you to the Nintendo gestapo in my experience.
Riskypride@reddit
It’s not a dislike of piracy (for most at least) it’s just so much more convenient to open up Netflix or Spotify and have everything you like already in front of you then having to torrent a movie or song or whatever
trsbops1@reddit
It's crazy how tech-savvy some people need to be just to get basic things done.
SpeechStraight60@reddit
I'm a zoomer and I pirate anime and movies all the time
_orion_1897@reddit
It has jackshit to do with piracy and much more with the fact that I hate having to go out of my to find a song on YouTube, having to copy and paste the link, than go out on Google to search a reliable MP3 converter, and then convert it and download the MP3 file when I can just save the song on Spotify or some shit like that. Like, try doing that with 1000+ songs, you'll get tired out at some point.
So essentially, it hasn't got to do with neither morals or the ability of pirating (like some people suggest) but rather with the fact it's annoying as shit to do. I don't want to spend hours pirating music to get all the songs I like on my phone
GreenRiot@reddit
Zoomers aren't antipiracy, maybe anon only knows zoomers with rich daddys that buy them every console and games they want.
How2chair@reddit
Mostly just worried about viruses
SnooJokes248@reddit
As much as I dislike Empress, no one is pirating Denuvo protected games so there's at least that issue I guess
desmitches@reddit
For games i like to have them on steam for achievements and steam deck. All other media gets pirated.
Stargost_@reddit
Piracy is almost part of Latin American culture. Nobody will bat an eye if you tell them you pirated something.
RedexSvK@reddit
Any not-as-well-off culture really, post communist countries keep a shitton of old hardware and software alive solely because we usually can't afford a better one, and if we do we still go back to a lot of potato-pc level games out of nostalgia. I got good enough pc now, but I still think about playing metin 2, Mount & Blade warband or Stronghold crusader from time to time, keeping at least one installed at all times.
Also haven't bought a game above 20€ in years
SuperSocialMan@reddit
But have you played Half-Life?
RedexSvK@reddit
Came free with pirated cs 1.6.
Lizardman_Shaman@reddit
Cominf from latinamerica, I remember when I was younger you could literally buy anything pirated in the street off dvd sellers, they had everything man, games, porn, movies, tv shows, music, pictures, everything.
Back in the day I befriended a guy at uni that had a small hustle as a dvd street reseller, and went to his place and he had like 10 puters each with 2 to 3 dvd burners in them burning continuously with his family helping take turn burning stuff.
I miss those days, pirating for me now is less social, just go to a torrent site, get seed, torrent or if I am lazy special pages with temp goole folders or other cloud services.
Piracy was great back in the day in my city, a whole street full of people selling you everything you wanted, I saw some of the most weird movies ever back in the day when I went to the special corner in the market with a guy that loved and had burned anything from the 70s in european cinema.
That crap had perfect subtitles, good times
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
I’ve heard they charge the same as US prices which is ridiculous.
Completely justified.
Stargost_@reddit
It depends. On Steam Valve will suggest a regional pricing which companies can follow as a guideline to price their games. Usually it's around half. But of course, that relies on publishers, which means a lot of games aren't priced regionally.
bronzewillis@reddit
Not anymore, alot of company force Steam or Steam themselve stop it imo. Last time I checked mhwild is 70$ in the Nam. Regional pricing should be around 50$
Stargost_@reddit
That's why I said that it depends on the publisher. They can just decide they don't want regional pricing and Steam can't do anything about it.
DeadlyAquarium@reddit
in Poland the suggested pricing is actually around 15% higher than in western Europe so fuck em, I didn't buy a game from steam in two years, yarrr!
GodOfMegaDeath@reddit
Nah, oftentimes it's even more expensive
Ta_PegandoFogo@reddit
Exactly. Even the cops take their own children to buy pirated games for their PS2 in street fairs.
RodjaJP@reddit
*third world culture
doomguy699@reddit
denuvo
MikoMiky@reddit
Zoomers are some of the biggest bootlickers I've ever met.
I completely understand them having the stereotypical anti-authority meltdown against their parents but that's usually accompanied by an even stronger disdain for government and corporations.
Instead they're some of the biggest shills!
professorclueless@reddit
I only pirate games from producers I hate who happened to make a decent game. Like, if my PC was up to snuff, I would totally pirate Hogwarts Legacy, specifically to avoid giving money to JK Rowling
xX_SkibidiChungus_Xx@reddit
Of course the 4Cucks feel superior about piracy - there's no thrill to it. Just a few clicks and boom!
Real men steal the physical discs/cartridges.
ckpwrson@reddit
they’re not, go on tiktok and you’ll find video after video of girliepops sharing movie/tv/anime sites, like 123movies and such. sure, most of us might not be using p2p and torrent clients (not me babey, soulseek and qbit ftw) but a fuckton of us still pirate shit. anon would know this if he went outside and talked to people, but this is 4chin so nothing ever happens
ApprehensiveRise6813@reddit
Honestly I would if I knew how. But I’m worried I’ll get penalized by my internet company since I likely won’t do it safely, as I have no one to learn from
Ace_Kujo@reddit
Denuvo + multiplayer games on steam
my_png_is_high@reddit
My dad said that back in the day when he gamed a lot getting a virus was much less likely than it is now A days.
Back in the day all websites where sketch and weird looking and so downloading something weird was normal.
Now people dont wanna go anywhere that isnt an official .gov .com or something like that.
And even if you did get one. you would just reset your system with no reprecussions cus everything else was just saved on a diffrent disk or floppy drive.
So basicly times change
fishyflu@reddit
It depends I guess. I have a private tracker account so I can download almost anything with godly speed, and I also know quite a few good online streaming sites for anime and TV shows/movies, so piracy is really fucking easy for me and I do it all the time. Can't even remember the last time I paid for a program, and never paid to watch anything
But for a zoomer that mostly interacts with apps I guess it's harder lol (even tho you can still pirate on a smartphone, replacing YouTube premium with newpipe or revanced for example)
veritron@reddit
dead internet theory, most the posts on social media are bots anyway etc
SuperSocialMan@reddit
Every account on Reddit is a bot except you.
DarkVader547@reddit
Imo in this digital age pirating something gives you more ownership over the software rather than buying it
Harryofthecharlottes@reddit
You don't pirate because of morals I don't pirate because my PC can't run next gen games We are not the same
theyeshman@reddit
For games steam is just such a legitimately great service there's basically no reason to pirate stuff besides financial hardship. 99% of games are on there, the service just works, and it let's you use your library offline. Movies and TV have become so broken up it's far more convenient to pirate. Up til 10ish years ago I was happily paying for a Netflix subscription because almost everything I wanted to watch was on there, now I'd need to have half a dozen subscriptions (some of them with shitass video players that don't work half the time) and search up which service any given piece of media is on. Being able to watch stuff while my absolute travesty of an ISP is having issues is nice too.
Caylife@reddit
Most played games are online anyway so pirating makes no sense if you play mostly multiplayer. Also many of those games like LoL, Dota 2, CS2, Fortine and Pubg are all free.
Harryofthecharlottes@reddit
I really don't pirate in general tho, I'm not that Big of a gamer and I mostly play on consoles where piracy is very hard to do, although I only judge people who pirate if they do it with malicious intent, besides I don't trust sites where You can get "free" games
Old-Implement-6252@reddit
I don't Pirate because it's more convenient to just spend a couple of dollars
Lizardman_Shaman@reddit
good on you! here, have a medal 🥉
Silver-Control828@reddit
Depends on what I am pirating
An indie game, most probably not. AAA games from 10 years ago when they have already earned more than enough, probably yes.
Music, i got student discount on Spotify but it's ending soon so that will be.
Movies, so many of them are trash, I don't even watch them on a regular basis. I compile a list of moves i want to watch, the platform they are available on, if I can get atleast any 5 on a single platform i buy one month's membership, else leave it on the watchlist or piracy.
Windows and office, always (hate office 365, I want my documents on my personal laptop not cloud)
untakenu@reddit
Zoomers tend not to be very computer-literate except for the basics.
Also, torrenting isn't convenient to a lot of people. Which is fair, it's a waste of time. Just stream it on pirate sites. But I think they'd just rather pay a little bit of money for some limited slop than waste their precious time having to find the same tv show they watch on repeat.
CCCyanide@reddit
Sucking at pirating things ≠ hating piracy
RomeosHomeos@reddit
I think any apprehension is that, because a bigger chunk of entertainment than ever is "indie", it has a chance of not being finished if it doesn't make money/has a personal connection with the crater
NotMorganSlavewoman@reddit
It's because it's easier to pay than to waste 3h getting something for free everytime I want to use it. No looking on shady webs, no cryptominders, no viruses, no 20h download times from ad-filled storage websites.
ConnorOfAstora@reddit
Pirating from Nintendo is morally acceptable and I'd even encourage it. They stubbornly refuse to re-release some games yet make a big stink about their games being pirated.
No sensible person should have to pay over £200 for a copy of Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness especially when a whopping 0% of that money is going to the people who actually made the game.
SlayBoredom@reddit
Zoomers argue "pirating isn't as available/easy now", yes it is. Of course it is.
It's just that the opposite (NOT pirating) has become more comfortable (no going to the library or having to buy a dvd, etc.). Thats why everything is designed as a service now and zoomers eat that shit up, because they simply don't know it better.
Davidepett@reddit
When the "would you steal a car?" spot came out to decrease piracy it instead made people discover what piracy was and increased it
Felix8XD@reddit
i love sailing the highs seas and then distributing amongst my peers like robin hood
bonesNrice@reddit
I haven’t subscribed to a streaming service in my life and I won’t start now
Hrdina_Imperia@reddit
That’s the spirit. Subscriptions are BS.
kewl_guy9193@reddit
No sooner is anti piracy. Anon made it all up in his head
tyler111762@reddit
because a lot of games these days are multiplayer oriented. yeah, on occasion i find a game that is peer-to-peer hosted so i can pirate a copy and play, but i generally pay for multiplayer games, pirate single player games, unless i specifically want to support the devs.
MrBobBuilder@reddit
Steam made it so easy , often cheap, and I don’t have to worry about downloading wrong thing .
It did exactly what Gabe said it would
Lollooo_@reddit
Nah fam, we fucking love it
SweetTooth275@reddit
Zoomer have brain and know how economy works, unlike milenials
TKG1607@reddit
Zoomers also have the privilege of someone or multiple people in their family (usually a Millenial or Gen X) who make somewhat decent income to not have to pirate or who pirate stuff on their behalf. Speaking from experience with multiple Gen Z cousins and/or friends and colleagues who have Gen Z siblings.
mc-big-papa@reddit
Its just easier to buy things now than pirating them.
dogehousesonthemoon@reddit
Millenial here, I quite willingly pay money for good things, if I'm in doubt I might pirate first as a demo.
I pirate movies that aren't on one of the major streaming services though, as that's just asking for it.
The_All_Knowing_Derp@reddit
Pay for the passion-made indie game by a small developer team, pirate the triple A company slop. give money and respect to those to deserve it, do whatever else how you feel
Lizardman_Shaman@reddit
I remember when much younger I pirated Spidewerb games ... Jeff is one of the few guys I actually managed to give money after my first real paycheck, have his games both on steam and gog, love supporting indy guys, not many people these days make these kind of games.
Legitimate-Ad-6267@reddit
Pirate AAA game, buy it if I liked it, repeat
BirbsAreSoCute@reddit
I've pirated a bunch of games and if I like them, I buy them on steam or wherever
RenkBruh@reddit
this
Spudtron98@reddit
"Everyone was pirating music and movies every day" they say. Well, I know first hand that everyone was getting computer viruses out the ass too.
zaforocks@reddit
Shit, my family used to steal cable.
naturalbornsinner@reddit
Dunno about zoomers. But it's ironic that we pay for software that we don't own.
Like your steam library goes with you at the end of your life. You can't leave it to the future generations.
Things might change, especially if EU will rule something to the extent of owning the product in perpetuity. But nonetheless, ironic that we don't own the software.
drak0ni@reddit
I’ll pirate shit that isn’t readily available for purchase (except movies, always pirate those) but if everyone pirates shit and doesn’t pay then people’ll stop making shit
Forminloid@reddit
I have a pretty easy system for determining if I want to pirate something. If it's a game I just consider the studio that made it, if I already bought a copy on console, and how much I think I'll like it. If it's a studio I dislike, I pirate. If I already bought the game elsewhere, I pirate. If I'm not sure I'll like it, I'll pirate (and then buy to support the devs if I like it!). If it's multiplayer I usually have to buy it to play with friends so that's a given.
With music I just have Spotify since anything I care to listen to is all in one place so it achieves it's purpose. I have Crunchyroll (even though I know they're kinda shitty) they have most anime I care to watch in decent quality and I watch a lot so I get my money's worth. However if there's anything I want to watch that isn't on there I set sail. Western movies and TV show streaming has become so expensive and inconvenient with a million platforms that it's easier for me to just pirate. I firmly believe that piracy begins where the legal route becomes more trouble or cost than it's worth and I believe that every service like HBO, Hulu, Paramount, and even Netflix deserves to die off for how terrible they've made it to stream. Shit even Crunchyroll should probably too, but at least they have a half-decent catalog. If I want to watch a movie, I'm not researching what service I need to use. I'm typing in the site I wanna use and I'm pulling it up in seconds (likely in higher quality than through legal means too).
If these services want to get rid of piracy they need to actually compete with piracy.
PolypsychicRadMan@reddit
Every single piece of media I have consumed in the past 5 years has been pirated. Games, songs, shows, movies, books. No exceptions
Provia100F@reddit
Because if you stop paying artists for things, they stop making it
untamedreverence@reddit
idk the 4.99 for spotify a month vs manually downloading all of my music individually, adding cover art, artist, and album data at the very least seems worth it. that and being able to use the service to start a session with other users as well as curating music playlist for you based on music you listen to among many other features just makes it hard to justify money vs. time spent. i aint paying for movies/tv tho i'll tell you that.
FlopScratch@reddit
Because I can afford to not pirate things. And it's easier to just have things in a library where I can download something at the click of a button without having all sorts of shit on my computer.
Paying a small subscription for music which I can access anywhere at any time. Paying for convenience.
DeathsStarEclipse@reddit
Remember when the whole idea of a corporation was economy of scale and we should get things cheaper.
Now it's just fuck you buy our stuff.
WashYourEyesTwice@reddit
Because nobody likes scurvy
Dynablade_Savior@reddit
Steam is good. I pirate Nintendo games and software and movies and TV and basically anything that isn't on Steam.
Old-Implement-6252@reddit
Yeah, that number one cause of pirating is convince. I only pirate stuff that isn't on one of the THREE streaming services I have access to. The idea I would need more than 3 is ridiculous.
Old-Implement-6252@reddit
It's a convenience thing mostly. I constantly have to find a new pirating website as my go to ones are always taken down, there's a chance of getting a virus and they're sometimes just lower quality.
Or I can just pay 4$ to YouTube and rent it for a day. Considering that's less than a value meal at McDonald's it doesn't feel like I'm saving much money by pirating.
Konakuro@reddit
My set of rules: - Pirate it first, then pay for it if it's worthy. - Indie games have to be paid for. - Niche games have to be paid for. (Obscure jrpgs, visual novels, some fighting games, some rts') - Open season on companies with shady/malicious monetization. (EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Gust) - DLCs are free. - Remakes of games originally released in the past 8 years are free. - If it's not on Steam, it's free. - If you can run it on an emulator, it's old enough to be free. (Switch emu games are fine too because fuck Nintendo) - If you already own it somewhere else, it's free.
Basically, my cornerstone is "How will spending money affect my chances of getting another game from that developer?"
No rules for TV or movies. I don't watch very much, so I can't justify paying for a streaming service every month.
For music, I just pay for Spotify. $12 a month is worth listening to whatever whenever and avoiding the hassle of getting music files to work like a playlist on my phone.
KazeEnigma@reddit
Piracy is generally because of the inability of access, be it financial, or regional issues.
When Netflix streaming was first a thing I loved it, no competition, no splintering of content, it was peak. Same as Spotify. If I can access it, I don't mind paying for it.
rape_is_not_epic@reddit
Propaganda, very little "How to Pirate 101" Information, fear factor and ignorance.
DrillTheThirdHole@reddit
i'm technically a zoomer and i grew up ripping CD's from the library straight into itunes and returning them. i'm not against piracy at all, but i got tired of getting computer aids 50% of the time that i'd want to pick anything up
queeblosan@reddit
The psyop worked. They wouldn’t download a car
ras344@reddit
I don't pirate because I'm not a poor high school/college student anymore.
I mean I will occasionally pirate something if there's a show/movie I want to watch that's not on a streaming service I have access to, but that's pretty rare nowadays.
SplashingAnal@reddit
I found a new cancer in a torrent file the other day.
Someone had uploaded a pirated version of a movie where an ad was incrusted directly into the video. I think it was for an online casino or some shady stuff like that.
The ad would not the these for a few seconds, no it was there constantly throughout the entire movie. And to add insult to injury, it would move to be on top of the main subject of each scene.
xXHalalManXx@reddit
The thing is, some companies like to not make their older games available, and the players have to choose either to buy the original hardware and game, which often isn’t cheap or you can download the game for free.
Carbone@reddit
Zoomer are antipiracy but pro cheating with stuff like Chronus and XIm and 'installing mods" in game like phasmo phobia lol
Everything because Harambee got killed
MisterEggo@reddit
I like to support the developers of games that I enjoy because I can afford it.
GodOfMegaDeath@reddit
That's something i find kinda weird with music. I have my personal Playlist with around 500 musics. I can listen to it all year only downloading a few here and there that catch my attention and i think that have repetition value without getting annoying quickly. Otherwise i just listen online on YouTube or some free service.
Yet i see people paying for sometimes MULTIPLE subscriptions related to music. Sometimes having a Playlist with thousands upon thousands of different songs and i simply can't fathom why do you need so many musics always at your disposal online when we don't hear more than 30 in a week realistically.
Paw99_@reddit
we are NOT anti piracy where the hell did you get this info
NoobMemeLordd@reddit
Games are no-no.
But other than that, everything is ahoyy matey
PenguinProfessor@reddit
Honestly, I think the break was the death of VHS tapes. Everyone being used to taping a live broadcast or copying a tape made it clear that once something was available to the public, it was fair game.
OCE_Mythical@reddit
Piracy is alive and strong in Australia. Alot of shows aren't available on any streaming service here. I have zero respect for piracy laws, they don't even provide me a product alternative.
Zorkonio@reddit
Spotify killed a huge portion of piracy that introduced normies to it. Normies had blockbuster for movies and didn't really buy games but everyone listens to music and people didn't want to pay 10 bucks on iTunes when u could just download it on a ton of websites that Google wasn't filtering out at all
Ephsylon@reddit
Piracy is a distribution problem.
Precumyumyum@reddit
Most Games Are played online so too much of a Hussle to Set up private Servers n Shit and Movies and music Are a Lot more convenient and cheap with Streaming Services. I rather pay 10 Bucks for Spotify than giving my Computer aids through Limewire for a shitty Linkin Park Song that has the last 10 secs missing.
I_am_avacado@reddit
look I pay for Spotify and buy stuff off steam to say it's too much hastle to set up private servers for anything means you have a terminal skill issue
"Most games are played online", yeah the fucking shit soy slop ones you're buying lmaoooo
Precumyumyum@reddit
Mate like 90% of playtime is spent on online Games What Are you Talking about. Good luck finding privates for lol and other popular stuff like that. And i buy maybe one game a year we are Talking about GenZ, 90% of my gametime is spent on 20 y/o Games lol
displayboi@reddit
Tell me you haven't pirated anything in the last 15 years without telling me.
EnglishBeatsMath@reddit
I love piracy. I share Freemediaheckyeah with everyone. Most normies have no clue you can stream infinite movies/TV shows free, even recent movies. I remember when Deadpool first released in theaters, there was a surprisingly high quality rip of it online. Through the power and sanctity of piracy, we are blessed with infinite free shows, movies, webtoons, books, music, and more. You can use any adblocker like Adguard or Ublock along with any streaming site like Vidbox.to as well for ad-free free-of-charge streaming.
GetOffMyDigitalLawn@reddit
If everyone pirated there would be WAY less content. That is just a fact. It's a good thing there are people that usually pay for everything to balance out the people who pirate. A lot of people pirate because they wouldn't be able to access it anyways, and I think that's perfectly fine. That's effectively how I was/am. I really only pirate old games I can't buy legally anymore and pay for regular games. However, I do pirate media more especially if there is not physical copies.
Regardless, where ever you find yourself on this debate I think you are an asshole for pirating indie games. That is a line I do not cross.
Liftmeup-putmedown@reddit
I’m only pro-piracy for media preservation and if there’s no easy way to get it. Otherwise you’re just broke.
OreoSwordsman@reddit
Haven't paid for Windows since XP (god $130 for Professional + Office as a LOCAL, OWNED COPY was a f*cking slammin deal, still got them install discs around here)
Haven't paid for Office since 1. LibreOffice got gud and 2. Almost a decade
Haven't bought a movie since Blockbuster closed (RIP o7 )
Music I pay for because fucc managing my own data and getting it all to work right on my phone without using a sideloaded app or just not having controls beyond stop/start. (I miss when CDs were huge and I could just burn 9 and load the spinner in the dash for WAR lmao)
Like shit about the only thing I don't actively avoid paying for is games. Ever since games became more multiplayer-centric, it's became A LOT harder to get an obtained game to connect and work properly as typically they do not receive proper updates. Combine this with all the good singleplayer/local games always going on sale for like $2 on Steam or G2A (or being made by people I support), and games just aren't worth it to obtain via other means.
Anything pre-2010 isn't really piracy, it's data preservation in this consumerist world, change my mind lol
Jinrex-Jdm@reddit
Lol you can't even crack denuvo DRM'd games.
TMStage@reddit
**YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE
PAYING FOR SHIT IS SO 2003
DO WHAT YOU WANT BECAUSE TORRENTS ARE FREE
YOU ARE A PIRATE!**
CapriciousManchild@reddit
Boomer millennial here . I’ve been in the piracy game before torrents existed
If you can’t get into a private tracker you deserve to purchase things like a normie .
Stermtruper@reddit
YoU wOulDn'T dOwNlOaD A cAr
9bjames@reddit
Try me 🖕
retsoPtiH@reddit
things Hustlers University doesn't want you to know
ArkoSammy12@reddit
The rise of mobile phones and streamlined, locked down operating systems have led to an overall decrease in computer literacy. Mixed in with the fact that it is now easier to consume media legacy, and it makes sense why the average kid growing up today isn't interested in piracy, at least for me. Even I hesitate to pirate stuff when I can afford it. The only things I refuse to pay for are subscription services like YouTube Premium, which is why I am thankful for the existence of uBlock Origin and Revanced.
Redmangc1@reddit
I never pirate unless there's an actual reason to.
For me, not having money isn't a reason.
If there's an easy enough way to get it, then I'll buy it because Supporting somthing that I like or is Good is a good way to get more of it.
Legitimate-Ad-6267@reddit
Not having money is like the only 100% valid reason
EvokerJuice@reddit
why is the pirate wojak jaundiced
Empero6@reddit
Zoomers aren’t anti piracy. They’re tech illiterate.
mayo_ham_bread@reddit
Convenience
erlend_nikulausson@reddit
A roommate of mine found that our dorm had an open LAN that would show you other people’s iTunes libraries. He then found a JavaScript program called ourTunes that would allow you to download all of their music as long as they were connected to the network.
Pretty sure he copied over 50,000 tracks in the first two semesters.
_Krilp_@reddit
I can't believe it, zoomers killed the piracy industry
Ticklemyfeetpls@reddit
i don’t understand people who boast about pirating don’t get me wrong i fw with pirating and pirate tv shows all the time but i don’t boast and tell everyone i am one. Like if you going to be this happy and proud start stealing from stores in person i promise its much more of a rush.
SoupaMayo@reddit
I'm a pc noob and last time I downloaded a pirated game on skidrow, it killed my computer. I had an antivirus but still wasnt good enough. meanwhile my friend who told me to use it "never had any virus" (I'm pretty sure his computer is full of trojan)
RenkBruh@reddit
Pirating stuff big companies made is always morally correct. No exceptions.
sword-lord@reddit
you wouldn't download a car, would you?
Ice_Cream223@reddit
I used to pirate games because i couldn't afford them lol.
After i got a job the rare occasions that i pirate is when the game isn't really worth the money/is too buggy/i'm just checking it out
never-obsolete@reddit
We've gone full circle. Boomers can't open a pdf, and zoomers can't navigate a file system.
hazzum@reddit
A lot of pirated games that should have multi player can only run in single player mode, I suppose that's not much fun.
Sushi-DM@reddit
Because for a brief period companies made their services worth paying for. And now we are 2 or 3 price increases away from a single bundle service or premium service to be screen restricted cable on demand because greedy suits love ad money and stretching the dollar of their consumer base.
Beatsbythebong@reddit
I think it's due to the rise of free online games and all paid games being online multiplayer.
For movies, it's because streaming is cheap af and the quality is way better than some highly compressed 1080p with jpg artifacts all over it with high compressed stereo sound.
Pretty much the same way for music. The convenience is worth the 10$ a month.
Conorcat@reddit
Not greentext
psyrune@reddit
I don't know, I am okay with paying for media I like and if I don't like it I don't consume it.
ThisIsAUsername353@reddit
If I like it I consume it for free while my bank account grows lol
Sungarn@reddit
I would pirate shit all the time when I was younger and didn't have money to buy what I wanted, but now that I actually make money I only really pirate movies or tv shows now that I feel like watching but don't have available with the streaming service I use.
Aggressive_Donut_222@reddit
Laughs in Chilean
b400k513@reddit
My honest opinion on the matter, some entity who wants to control the world (we won't get into who this is, some people say it's one group, some say it's another, so I'll just say it's whomever you think it is) figured out that you can manipulate impressionable people very easily with sensationalized news articles and attention-grabbing headlines.
Suddenly, there was a lot of Why You Should Stop _____ And You're a Bad Person If You Keep Doing It going around. Piracy is one of the things that's been targeted in recent years. Unsurprisingly, many of the terminally online folks among us fall for this shit constantly. It's all, "...b-but if you pirate this game, the guy who designed the skybox won't get his $6 residuals every quarter!"
There was the whole Napster thing back then, but the media didn't know how to get people to take it seriously yet.
ifornataro@reddit
To be honest, after all these years it’s become more difficult. You used to find piracy websites as first results on google. Now you have to find them
goldenmario52@reddit
Are these anti-piracy zoomers in the room with us?
TheStoryTeller_1@reddit
Indie games don't deserve to be pirated imo. But I will gladly for soul sucking corperations
TheArcaneKnight@reddit
Only shit I pay for are games and music and only cause they are way too much of a pain to pirate.
Muntazir_The_Guide@reddit
I've pirated games that I liked so much I bought them on steam
HUSK3RGAM3R@reddit
I mean, I'd like to support the devs that make games I like so I can continue to get more games from them.
Rockman2isgud@reddit
YAR-HAR FIDDLE-DEE-DEE! BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT TO ME! DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE! YOU ARE A PIRATE!