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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 day ago

Literally if not for music piracy I wouldn't have a massive vinyl library worth > $7,000, wouldn't have gone to 100+ live shows, wouldn't have paid $1000+ bucks for all the band merch I have, wouldn't have evangelized countless bands to all of my friends and social network for decades. Piracy is absolutely the thing that unlocked that whole obsession for me.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 day ago

I appreciate that your title makes it clear that this is an old article. Certainly it's still relevant, but going into the article with knowledge of its age calibrates my mindset

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This seems like the kind of thing that should be bookmarked and thrown in corporations' faces at every moment.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 day ago

People who should be doing thiz ie politicians will never bite the hand of the corpos that feed them

They are regime whores.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 16 points 1 day ago

I have purchased far more than I've ever obtained. In some cases I've double dipped and purchased multiple times.

The main issue is "can I obtain it legally and pay the original creators?" And secondary is "is this item reasonably priced and delivered in an accessible way?".

The last game I grabbed was the Sims 4 + dlc a very very long time ago. The last show i grabbed was probably an anime with fan subtitles.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

I would only download stuff I wasn't going to buy anyway, but if I do actually like it enough I then go and buy it, except if it's Nintendo. They can go fuck themselves in every way possible.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can understand why they decided to not publish the result. I live in Spain, I have no clue how is it in other European countries but here it's like they only take any action when something becomes very widespread or touches the football.

So it is a bit like as they read the report and decided to not spend too much on that.

[–] ThoGot@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Germany you get lawsuits thrown at you if you torrent without a VPN

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

Wow, that sounds horrible. Now I wonder how it is for the rest.