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Places that buy other companies to dismantle or lay off large chunks of staff and take over IP with minimal or absent quality to show from it. Just maximize that investor dollar.

Microsoft, Disney etc.

The harm performed far outweighs any investment from a “toward the artists” I see come back.

or even a group that funded it

I noted I’m ok with investors.

I’m against parasitic groups that feed on properties and prevent money getting to the actual dev folks.

Hey man, you can’t park that here

Ditto on Spotify. I have big love for piracy of FLAC for my personal music server, but I also have a decent rack filled with physical offerings from my favorite bands.

My Bandcamp collection is also getting up there, since a few of my favs say they are treated well there, and it’s FLAC friendly as well.

Physical media or merch directly from the band is absolutely the way to go every time if possible.

Cool argument, except a huge quantity of pirated works aren’t “owned” by the creator or even a group that funded it, but instead by parasitic companies that abuse capitalistic tools to actually steal value from those creators.

I have thousands of purchased games. 3 categories here:

1: obtained as part of a pack (humble gog etc)

2: purchased AFTER trying out via pirate copy to know if it is my kind of thing

3: picked up early access due to demo or general interest from being a known smaller dev/studio (hare brained for example)

With less and less access to shareware and viable demos, piracy is often the only conduit to prevent me getting ripped off of $80 for something that looks like a shiny sports car but end up being another “buy $800 in dlc for the full story!” Ford pinto.

Additionally, I now flat refuse to fund the likes of Denuvo, and wish that piracy actively hurt the bottom line of companies deploying that kind of anti-user shit.

Cattle mutilations are up.

Nice fukkin’ model!

Honk Honk

Yes, have some.

Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?

Slackware. 1993.

I’m old lol.

Been through:

Slackware

Mandrake

Debian

Ubuntu

Redhat , old and new

Fedora

Arch

Knoppix

Pop!

CentOS

Enlightenment

Etc etc…

Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.

I don’t use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I’d recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It’s all open source as well.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I’ve been away from that side long enough I’d suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.

It sounds like perhaps torrents aren’t the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?

You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.

And as to the past month or so:

That’s without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don’t use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.

Most private trackers now implement a credit system that rewards for making seed available as well. Even without users downloading from you, you accrue credit just for keeping it alive and available.

If you are impatient, this won’t really help, but it works well enough if you actually plan to join the community instead of hit and run.

Jackass that was a huge piece of crap for several years and repeatedly stole things was a part of a larger social group I was a part of. Used to gaslight and attempt sexual assault on most of the girls in the group too, and his various lies tended toward causing fights.

Literally got the chance and spent a weekend banging his (divorced) Mom.

Side irony: getting the chance like that to spend quality time with an attractive gal boosted my self image enough I was able to later make some of his hidden transgressions against that community apparent. Much of the group ostracized him, and the ones that didn’t fell away as they often were complicit… Grooming girls or equally abusive etc.

ARRRRRR!

Aww they seem nice.

Floppy sets represent!

“Please insert Slackware disk Set A disk 3”

This echoes my thoughts… Even simple question/answer to help others get old games working, useful links to emulation resources for older platforms etc.

With steam deck popularity, a new wave of inexperienced folks wanting to try things is guaranteed.

The air inside is what is causing the vacuum heat the air, expansion, less vacuum. Cool the air, shrinks, more suction.

Heating both likely the smoothest solution.