• Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    28 days ago

    If something is worth paying for I just do that up-front. (Outside of some exceptions where I actively don’t want to support the creator or license holder)

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Cannot speak for anyone else, but it depends on his badly I want it and whether or not I am willing to give money to said compant/person/whatever.

    Is it an old out of print game that suddenly had prices jacked up 500% by scalpers/scammers? It ain’t worth me trying to find a ROM if the sources I like don’t have it, nor buying it.

    Is it from some indie dev/devs that probably don’t have the financial stability to afford everyone pirating their game? I’m more likely to buy if I can afford.

    Did a large company like Sintendo, Activision, etcetera, make it? For older titles, I am likely to buy if it’s a low enough price and I have a real interest in it. Newer titles? I usually don’t bother because the quality for most triple AAA studios isn’t up to par for me since I don’t like buying reskins of the same game with somehow less of the basic features available unless you pay.

    Side note: looking forward to Black Ops 99 where you have to pay $9.99 per pixel to be able to see the screen as you play and still have people buy the game, willing to pay for every pixel… only to find out the game servers are constantly offline for an online only experience they don’t get to play and by purchasing the game you somehow agreed to give Activision access to your bank account to do as they please with that money.

    Edit:

    For shows and movies, if I can’t easily find it, I don’t bother because it’s a much bigger hassle than video game piracy. Same with books.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Give up. I refuse to pay for artificially scarce goods.

    This same applies to public transport tickets, end up either staying home or walking for hours so I don’t have to pay for the damn tickets that should be free.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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        27 days ago

        Why should driving on roads be free? It costs the government money to build and maintain them, and it ain’t cheap to bail out the auto industry whenever needed. And cleaning up the atmosphere isn’t gonna be cheap. Why are the costs of driving mitigated at every level of society instead of just fully funding public transit?

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
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            27 days ago

            I should have acknowledged that in my highly rhetorical line of questioning, but are we going to pretend road tax covers the full cost of roads? It’d have to be much higher if it did, and it still wouldn’t cover the environmental cost of runoff and emissions, nor all the squandered space from parking minimums, etc.

            These costs always get externalised to a large extent and we pretend we’re doing something normal because moneyed interests have made it the default option. But we’re not.

            • Nanzer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              27 days ago

              In my state at least millions in federal funding goes towards projects. Day to day operations are funded by state tax dollars and they still want people to pay ever increasing prices for public transport.

              Honytawks argument further falls flat when you consider tax dollars do go to public transport.

              Edit:clarified state tax vs federal

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Ask that the state that should back it and make it cheap.
        Why should only the wealthy be able to move around??

  • annoyinglyfish@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    27 days ago

    so, usually if i can’t find it through direct download or torrent, i might try asking around, or looking in open directories even, and if all of that fails i lay awake at night Really bothered

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Depends. Sometimes I’ll give it up all together. If I think it’s worth it I’ll buy it. Other times I thought it wouldn’t be worth it and I pirate it and then I end up buying it afterwards. Other times I just wait for a steep discount/sale.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Give up, it’s all just entertainment for me, so i can just go and be entertained by something else.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Depends. A while back, I was looking for an old, relatively obscure but unimportant album, and could only find one copy on eBay. It was only a couple bucks, so I bought it, ripped it, and uploaded it. Now it’s preserved and available.

    I also had an experimental EP album I downloaded from YouTube that I really enjoyed. At some point the author took it down, so I uploaded it to archive.org, again for preservation and availability. Later the author found it and commented something like “hey this is my work, what’s it doing here”, so I took it down. But I still have it and I’ll put it back up when they stop making music.

    If it was something easily available for a few bucks, I wouldn’t publish it. Creators deserve compensation for their labor too. They need to eat. For something that they’re charging way too much for, and they’re not hurting for cash, especially if it’s not easily available, yeah I wouldn’t have a second thought about pirating and republishing it.

    In your case, with the 99% availability, I’d try to complete the torrent and seed in any way possible. If that’s not possible, I’d purchase and republish, filling in the missing files if possible or creating a new torrent if not.

    • pyria@kbin.melroy.org
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      27 days ago

      “hey this is my work, what’s it doing here”

      Uh so other people can discover your work which therefor, should be an inspiration for you as an artist, to keep going? Duh. Would you have rather it be lost to the sands of time and nobody to know you and what you done so you can be a nobody?

      I mean in the past when torrenting was new and very white hot, some artists actually torrented their works and got discovered that way. It was a badge of honor.

  • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Piracy is my main resort been doing it so long. After HD-DVD lost I was done buying media. Don’t get me wrong I still pirated before that but it was more renting and ripping DVDs.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    When I was in college, often yes, as the “free” thing was typically a textbook I needed to actually pass a class.

    Nowadays? Meh, I probably don’t need that random movie that bad.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Most of the stuff I want to pirate, is because they are expensively rare or not available through stores. Mind, that might change in the future, just because of how crap the US economy is becoming for the ordinary person.

    I want to support cool stuff by paying, if the terms are reasonable. That means no DRM, all content, and an appropriate price. It is mostly hentai games that I am buying, since the developers of those definitely need the money.

  • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Depends on what it is… if it’s a movie that I can’t find, I’ll usually just wait until an ethical version shows up somewhere later.

    If it’s a research paper or a book I’m looking for, though, I take paywalling as a personal insult - I usually go to extreme lengths to obtain it, and I usually do get it.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
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    27 days ago

    There’s a child of books that I’ve bought in this way.

    Also I bought some books that I’ve pirated, to support the author.