Do you pay for some pirated contents (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Are there pirated contents that you very like and eventually give money to the creator, and where do you find the creators?

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[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago

I don’t pirate software anymore. If I do the math on how much enjoyment I get even from a mediocre AAA game title, it is dwarfed by what I’d spend on a night out, so the value is there for me. On top of that the risk of malware (or the effort in mitigating it) isn’t really worth it.

Tv and movies? Pirate it. The streaming services are garbage and the content has too much crap for me to want to pay a corporation for it. If it became too hard to pirate I just wouldn’t watch it anymore.

Books kind of fall in the middle. Happy to pay for ebooks if the author makes it practical, but I’m not keen on buying through Amazon.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 8 points 5 months ago

Yup, same. I haven't pirated software in a decade or so. I'm not much of a gamer, and the software I do use is almost all FOSS.

Books, eh. I'll buy an epub or PDF that I can download. I'm not "buying" something that can disappear from my library after license agreements change between corpos. I don't want paper, too heavy and voluminous.