- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
You must log in or register to comment.
MOD ACTION: I’m locking this post. It’s gone off the rails a bit.
Pirate to avoid terrible ux
We’re at a point where the improved user experience is enough justification.
Every service ever is putting revenue above costumer satisfaction. Every streaming app gets in the way of what you want to watch so they can funnel you to the same 3 Movies/TV Shows. Searching is almost useless you get a few results related to your search term and the rest is unrelated garbage.
The other day I was watching a movie at a friend’s house on Netflix. When you hit pause, the movie minimizes into a card on the left and the rest of the screen turns into a fucking advertisement.
Like, not even a “recommendation” for another movie on the service, just a full blown ad for something else, ours was a food delivery app ad.I’ve gotten spoiled by the Piracy experience. Over here it’s me first and me above everything.
None of my ‘services’ fill my screen with ads for their new season so the shareholders can recoup their half a billion investment.
They show me my media and get the fuck out of my way. It’s refreshing.
The apps are made by people who actually use them daily and there’s no pressure to make a “return of investment”, they just make the best user experience they can and that’s it.It’s pretty amazing how qbittorent is such a nice app, while something like youtube is constantly shoving ads up your butt.
Piracy is socialism
Pirate to avoid DRM/antifeatures: 😎
All of the above. Fuck capitalism, fuck DRM, and fuck giving the 1% more money lmao
[Insert “we are not the same” meme]
If we’re talking about denying profits to fatcats leveraging the Intellectual Property legislation they corruptly bought (for example anti circumvention legislation, business methods patents or the insane copyright lengths nowadays), then Piracy is pretty much a Moral Obligation.
My dad stole cable. Just continuing the family tradition.
Pirating is the only way culture/media can survive in a digital capitalist world…
No officer, I do not “pirate”
I merely ask a friend of a friend to share with me free stuff, which are, obviously, totally perfectly legal and absolutely not illegal copyright infringement. 😉
He goes by the username: Ligma
I mean I pay artists when I can. I buy and download songs from an artist I like, but for what ever reason this one track is not available to download. Stream only! I can’t be sure, but I feel like I should say fuck you to netflix.
This is the shit that makes pirates.
If we’re talking about music, go see the band and buy a shirt. That will help them like 1000000x more than paying for netflix, spotify, etc.
Huge middle finger to Netflix. 40% of all of my blocked DNS queries are Netflix trackers. And the real kicker is that most were coming from TVs with Netflix installed, not even signed into my account. Take from them what you can, because they’re doing the same with you.
@purplemonkeymad here here
How do i avoid drake
Be over the age of 18
Yet here we are with the fuckass on our screens.
I still pay even though I pirate. Debrid service, Usenet etc.
It’s always been a service issue not a money issue for me. I realize not everyone has the luxury of that issue.
Right now I’m paying about $6/month. I could always reduce it to 0 but at this price the extra QOL features are worth it.
Pirate to archive culture, then refuse to consume it regardless in order to reduce demand and influence of Big Media
Our tax dollars are subsidising hollywood and AAA video games. We already paid for them
but just my personal advice. Don’t pirate your OS and don’t pirate security software, that shit needs to run exactly right and cracked versions could have all kinds of things hidden inside of them
Windows and Linux are both free and MacOS coames pre-installed in custom made hardware, so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore. I’m with you on security software though.
so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore
those who don’t know what they’re doing, but some are still doing it so good point
windows isn’t free, but you can get OEM keys for super cheap if you look up where to buy on brave search
I have yet to ever have this happen to me. I’ve been pirating Windows OSes since Win2000 days.
This is only a risk if you don’t know what you’re getting into and do not take precautions. The best security for your PC and OS is common sense. Anti-virus and that junk just want your money to make you feel secure.
Okay, I warned you
Okay, thanks for an unneeded warning because nothing wrong has happened to me all this time. You keep sitting in that corner and being afraid with your little tinfoil hat on.
nothing wrong…as far as you’ve seen. Modern malware is silent and doesn’t make its self known.
I’ve donated more to private trackers than I probably would pay for several years of a streaming service
(a private linux iso tracker, of course)
