• Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
    41·
    11 days ago

    How does pirating make a corporation broke? Making a copy doesn’t steal money.

    Edit: We can’t pirate a company into bankruptcy.

    • dch82@lemmy.zipOP
      32·
      11 days ago

      Because they keep whining that they’re losing money /s

      EDIT: added /s

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
        16·
        11 days ago

        I have an automated setup that can torrent the same game 100000 times so I can make corporations go broke at the click of a button. Fear me

        • dch82@lemmy.zipOP
          6·
          11 days ago

          I have a collection of 10000 classic Nintendo games on an HDD so I can make Nintendo America file chapter 11. Fear me

    • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 days ago

      You didn’t pay up to enjoy the product. They lost revenue. But yes, it didn’t “broke” the corporation.

    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      11 days ago

      We can’t pirate a company into bankruptcy because there are still people paying for the movies and games we download. If everyone pirated content, these companies would go bankrupt, and there would no longer be new content to pirate. Online pirates often justify their behavior by telling themselves a story about how they’re ‘sticking it to the man,’ but in reality, we’re just freeriders enjoying the fruits of others’ labor. We’re leeches with no moral ground to stand on.

    • datendefekt@lemmy.ml
      8·
      11 days ago

      Well, they have to pay licensing fees for the media, pay crazy money for the IT infrastructure, which they have no matter how many downloads.

    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 days ago

      If you aren’t stealing them they aren’t stealing your content or work with AI. This pirating isn’t stealing bullshit is tired. Some backwards ass way to justify stealing someone’s right to distribute their work and get paid.

    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      How are you this naive? You know someone has to pay the developers a salary right? How would corporations pay them if nobody bought the game and instead pirated?

  • sazey@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 days ago

    I’m not sure what is with all the recent gatekeeping and glamourisation I am seeing around pirating, just seed your torrent and go bro.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      5·
      10 days ago

      Yo there’s games that cost 80€ for me ($88.60). Even if I could afford that I would not pay that much. And remember that there are a bunch of games that basically don’t drop in price at all.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 days ago

    Remember, every time you download an episode instead of streaming it you cause the corporations to lose MILLIONS (according to their words).

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    I pirate because I know I won’t have it eventually if I don’t. Where I can, I donate directly to the creator instead of the worthless middlemen that are going to disappear next year and take my purchase with them.

  • Randelung@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 days ago

    I pirate because ads and cost. Not that I couldn’t afford it, but accepting price increases for the same or reduced quality of service encourages enshittification. Ads are unacceptable, period.

    Give me Steam level quality and you’ll receive my money. That includes offline capabilities, family sharing, uncompromised content quality, and no taking back purchased items. In short, make me trust your platform. And I will never pay for subscriptions. Netflix was close, but alas.

    The best time to start was 20 years ago (again, Netflix). Second best is now.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    11 days ago

    I used to pirate because when I started gaming, I was poor.

    I could afford a game or two, but I was smart enough to know getting a modded ps2 would mean that my money would go much much further and thereby maximize my gaming experience. My gaming budget was the same, but I wanted my money to go to hardware.

    Now I’m an adult, work as a software dev and the price isn’t a problem. But now I pirate because as a dev I know, all the hard workers are paid salary/hourly before the game releases, and if it’s a AAA game, all the money goes to investors.

    Solution? Being a patient gamer and paying for indie games here and there :D

    • CondensedPossum@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      hi gamer it sounds like you are stuck plateau’d because you are playing on “I’m too young to die” / “normal” mode

      you really only unlock true gamer mode once you add the following win conditions: pay solo & indie developers that you follow on Fedi directly or on their best platform; participate in retroachievements so as to directly flaunt your participation in alternative gaming economies; foster a sharing economy among your friends where you hook each other up with copies of stuff you have recently enjoyed on a regular basis.

      if you can enjoy normal, you can enjoy true gamer mode. but if your goal is to beat Nightmare gaming mode at some point you have to improve your tech and strats