You block ads because of privacy.
I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.
We are not the same.
I also block ads because I want a clean page, plus the economical damage.
Yeah that’s my whole thing with ads, I understand monetization is necessary but it’s gotten so far out of fucking hand
I agree. Small, non-intrusive banner ads with an easy close button are fine. They get the message across without getting in anyone’s way.
The problem is the ads that stop you from doing anything for the best part of a minute. I don’t see how anyone has ever been convinced to buy whatever product is being advertised by these, but somehow, they’re the ones that are everywhere.
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I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.
I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead choose to hide behind excuses.
I have seen these big long winded speeches about how immoral it is to sell copyrighted material and how some dumb shit like spiderman should fall under the ‘free sharing of ideas to better humanity’ and blah blah blah.
Bro. We are thieves. We are stealing because its easy and the products cost too much.
It also depends on who’s behind the product. Good indie game with one or a few developers - never. Adobe - I consider it a moral obligation.
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Bad news: piracy isn’t theft if buying isn’t owning
In what world is getting something for free that the original owners are charging money for not theft?
You engaged in a TOS with a service provider. The terms of your ownership were not negotiated and yet you tacitly agreed to the contract.
The one we live in, where software is being sold to consumers with terms of service that say customers don’t own the software they bought.
Right. You license it. Owning something isn’t the be all end all of commerce. Just admit you like getting free stuff.
Do you complain about the Theme Park getting to keep all of its rides when you leave at the end of the day? You paid money to be there, surely you should get to take part of the park home with you.
A better comparation would be this: you paid for Dondurma and after the guy is done with the tricks he moved on to the other customer so you asked where’s my ice cream. And he says umm actually if you scanned the QR code of the menu you would have known, after watching 2 ads, that you are paying for the tricks not the ice cream
As someone who has literally never bought any software at all, ever… I just get the stuff I need whether it is free or not. I don’t care if it is freeware or not actually
The key part of theft is taking the object away from the original owner, which doesnt happen with Piracy, its more akin to forgery than it is theft
I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don’t pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.
EXACTLY
You’re not entitled to media. Just own the fact that you like stealing media.
The billionaires are not entitled to our excess labor value.
And billionaires are not entitled to fucking tax breaks every year. I’ll start paying when they start paying their fair share.
Also I literally said that in my comment. But you were too busy sucking off a billionaire.
Don’t worry, I’ve been following his simple minded, tone deaf train of thought for several posts.
He’s too busy posting to respond (rather than replying to discuss) to remember to cup the balls.
Its not theft its copyright infringement
“Copyright infringement”: when a shitty set of laws, known collectively as copyright laws, infringe not just on people individual rights but also on the advancing and progressing of society.
300% real definition
I just enjoy having 1 app to browse the content I want to watch instead of a dozen different apps that suck in their own special ways.
plex won’t download properly on my phone, but it’s not because some big company decided that I’m not allowed to do that, it’s just cause the devs suck.
The crazy thing is that you’ve been tricked into thinking piracy even is theft
When subtraction is equivalent to addition because capitalists needs to justify owning the means of production.
If those corporations are allowed to do it, then so are we.
Even the corporation that made all those “You wouldn’t download a car” ads are now downloading actors for their movies.
obligatory “if buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing”
and also there’s a moral argument for data preservation here somewhere
Pirating is stealing regardless and that’s cool 😎
I prefer “unauthorized duplication of bits” :3
I just enjoy copyright infringement.
I love stealing~
I like taking things~
I just like filling up hard drives and sitting on top of them like a dragon hoarding ones and zeros
its very cool and funny to do crimes, actually
Copyright infringement isn’t a crime though, only commercial copyright infringement is.
I think piracy is the inevitable result of restricting access.
Given that music services like Apple music, Spotify, YouTube music, and others, all have access to just about anything you might want to hear as soon as it’s released, no matter what service you use, you get access. Pick your favorite.
Meanwhile in the world of TV and movies, everything is everywhere. If you want to pay for access to whatever you want to watch, you’re going to be subscribing to just about every video streaming service in existence to achieve it, because everyone has exclusives. Don’t like the website, user interface, search system, algorithmic suggestion system, mobile app, webpage, price, etc. Of a service? Too fucking bad, they’re the only one who streams that show you like, either pay too much for cable and sit on your couch every week at the same time to watch it there (if that’s even an option… and over pay for it), or use the stupid streaming service you hate to watch it. Your alternative? Piracy.
IMO, piracy is inevitable as long as access is this limited.
I don’t know anyone who pirates music anymore.
I know of plenty that pirate TV and movies.
