What do you specialize in pirating? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by snowgrimm@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What is your primary media that you pirate?

Mine has always been music. I don't really download a lot of it as much anymore. But I am registered to a dirt cheap MP3 site where I pay $1.22 for an entire album and then download it.

Games, I used to have pirated but I've got so damn many that it defeats the purpose. I've downloaded hundreds of ROMs of old games and gotten some DRM-free stuff from DDL. I'm set for life on games.

Movies, I don't pirate. I've built a steady collection just by thrifting alone for dirt cheap movies, not even burned copies.

Books, I mean if I really had the ambition to, I'd pirate. But I honestly prefer having the books in my hand and I can get them for cheap.

Shows, same as movies. I thrift a lot and that neutralizes the need for me to pirate.

Software, yeah I still occasionally will pirate if there's a program I'm not going to sink some $$$ digits for or some poor sap out there wanting to charge $70 for a "lifetime license" for a software of a tool I'd need desperately for something I want done and I'm not gonna wait a lifetime for to finally afford without buyer's remorse.

So, music and software is all I'm after because I love music above all other media.

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[-] jeremy@midwest.social 39 points 1 year ago

Nice try, FBI

[-] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Op's got a faint glow about them lmao

[-] snowgrimm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's a really tired out joke now.

[-] VinceWithShamwow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

says the FBI

[-] snowgrimm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More lame jokes. This isn't a fucking stand up comedy community, go to Reddit for your unoriginal shit.

https://imgur.com/a/VvRNwCQ

[-] VinceWithShamwow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, dude, calm down. This a piracy community, its not that serious.

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Chill

[-] BitterSweet@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago

Is it just me or does this guy not pirate much of anything?

[-] 5ubieee 5 points 1 year ago

hey they dont pirate shit but they sure do have a lot to say in the comments lmao

[-] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

So… you don’t do it?

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

So instead of just downloading whatever you want you have a collection of various stuff and only watch those? Weird

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 9 points 1 year ago

3 letter agent glow so bright

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Where do you think that dirt cheap music site is getting their tracks from? I would tell you, but the name is REDACTED.

[-] snowgrimm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It came from Apple. /s

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Lol.

Out of curiosity, does it not feel weird to pay $1 for an album that someone else clearly pirated? Cut out the middle man and plunder that booty yourself for free! Or pay more money and actually contribute to the artist.

Your current plan is giving your hard earned dollar to organized criminals for nothing more than the illusion of a legal purchase. What they are doing (selling pirated content for profit) is literally more illegal than piracy itself.

[-] Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don't suppose you could sort me an invite?

[-] Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Just read the rules, apparently invites may be offered but not requested so nevermind

[-] dog@suppo.fi 7 points 1 year ago

Porn.

[-] xodoh74984@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'll sell you the same albums for $1.19 🤫

[-] BitterSweet@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll sell them albums for $1.18!

[-] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Obscure, cult, and foreign genre movies. I like finding films that have been lost to time and I have this probably irrational fear that if I don't acquire them they'll disappear and I'll lose my chance to see them.

[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Obscure movies that they don't sell anymore

[-] ehyuman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

legacy linux isos

[-] Mike90210@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You still paying for music, shit man there's plenty of free ways to acquire mp3s and flacs

Deemix with premium ARL, soulseek (nicotine+), qobuzdlx.

I also believe there may be a downloadrr for tidal too

[-] BitterSweet@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeet skeet here’s the thing you’re talking about

streamrip: Downloads tracks, albums, playlists, discographies, and labels from Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, and SoundCloud

Also good: Tidal-Media-Downloader

[-] gizzle@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Why pay for anything when everything is available for free?
Why bother pirating when you have enough money to waste on paying for media?

Either pirate everything or don't pirate at all, there are no morals or ethics involved

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I am the CDkey whisperer. I put combinations of numbers and letters together like Snape brewing a potion.

[-] idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

What kind of question is this fool?

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Y u so mad OP?

[-] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly music I have.40k songs of my phone and download new music everyday. I don't know why yoy are paying for a website when you can easily pirate music for free?