• slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.

    Fair winds and following seas to you fellow sailors, arrrrr

    • LinusSexTips@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      From my nixos config.

      Corps are fucked, I’ve got no issues pirating content. If I want to support someone I’ll pay up but the majority of content is background filler for me.

      Why would I want to sub to Amazon just to watch Jeremy Clarkson’s new show, where he was paid $200m to support him? It baffles the mind the volume of cash that’s thrown around in that world.

      I’d much rather spend my money down the pub on a Sunday, which is owned by locals, has local beers on tap with a local solo musician jamming out the front.

      For me, there’s much more value in an experience with the quirks of it being live, a quick witted bartender, a great cover, an old bloke retelling stories he’s told 100 times before, a forgotten lyric or even a snapped string on a guitar.

      Or I’m starting to show my age 😎

  • Olap@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
    - Paul Muad’Dib

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      7 months ago

      This is why I’m actually ok with Hulu. All the Futurama, archer, and Rick and Morty episodes are worth the monthly fee everything else is a bonus. If those disappear I’m ok with cancelling the service.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, if it’s in “The Cloud” it’s NOT yours and it can disappear or be modified without your knowledge or consent at any time.

    Buy some external storage and keep copies of everything you care about.

  • CannedCairn@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Is there a good way to pay for a download of movies or TV, or should I go back to buying physical and ripping?

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah that’s why I buy DVDs if it’s something that I actually want to keep. I don’t mind streaming as long as you understand that you own nothing.

  • BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, got rid of all my CDs a few years ago and now I’m buying them back a bit at the time because of all the stuff that is going out of print and you can no longer stream.

    Should have just stored everything.