What is the safest way to pirate without spending money. (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by QuietStorm@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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Honestly, im scared to get into piracy because im afraid of getting in trouble or failing, basically im worried for no reason. I also have some random questions about piracy.

should downloaded things be put on a internal or external hard drive. Because my external hard drive can be weird at times and i know some files required them to be installed internally.
is there a way to help out the piracy community without breaking any rules or breaking the bank?
are direct downloads safer or torrent, or something else?

that is all i have at the moment but feel free to add on to this if you wish too.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Your local library.

No joke: Many have sizeable media libraries and it's easy to rip optical media

[-] QuietStorm@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago

ive tried that and its great but they always have some sort of block that prevents you from downloading/copying dvds, and they only have so much and what if i want something like a video game or software, what do i do?

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

The power of Linux

[-] QuietStorm@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

is there a Linux distro you suggest?

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

If your only use case is to rip CDs or whatever, any USB with more than a couple GB can act as a live disk, which basically lets you boot directly into linux from the USB. Installed packages don't persist so maybe you can do some research to find a distro that has what you need built in. I'm 99% one exists that suits exactly your needs. I've literally just spent the last week installing and trying out different distros and Linux Mint is the best for set it and forget style linux.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mint Linux, Ubuntu based, but works with flatpack instead of snapd, and doesn't have tracking blah blahs by default. Extremely popular as well, so well supported.

The one everyone says is best for gaming is Arch, but if you have trouble assembling an IKEA desk, stay away for now.

[-] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Don't know jack about Linux, but people here often mention Ubuntu, apparently it's easy for peeps new to linux, though not the best for gaming. Forget what distro specializes in that one.

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