As long as piracy is easier than obtaining something legally, I'll continue to do it. I stopped pirating music, because Spotify is much much nicer to use and gives a better experience overall. I stopped pirating games since steam is nice. I almost stopped pirating movies when Netflix came out. Only pirated some extremely niche stuff. But now I'm back in the high seas, baby!

I'm with Gabe Newell on this one. High piracy rates indicate a service problem.

I can't find very good data on this, but my suspicion is that PC piracy rates are lower than they were a decade ago. I'm betting piracy of movies and TV shows is far, far higher than it was a decade ago. It's pretty easy to see why. If you want a PC game, you can usually (EGS timed exclusives aside) buy it from your digital storefront of choice, or add it to your wishlist and wait for a sale. Once it's in your library it's effectively there to stay. Game doesn't work on your PC, or you don't enjoy it like you thought you would? No problem, you can refund it. Now compare that movies and TV shows. An ever-expanding range of streaming services that all want $15 a month from you, region locking, staggered release dates. Nothing new you want to watch this month? Too bad, your $15 is now our $15 dollars, and we'll take $15 from you next month too. Movie and TV show piracy provides a more valuable and convenient service, so it wins hands down.

Personal rule has always been I don’t give a fuck about major corps profits.

However, if I pirate a game I like, I pay for it. Simple as. Support devs, especially indie.

Louis rossmann has been pirating board schematics since before he did board repair in a basement, since apple likes to make them so inaccessible. On some of his streams you can even see the watermark of the site he pirated them from on it xD

Rossmann is becoming more based by the day.

Rossman has never not been based

Rossmann is based af

It always is.

I don't think it's OK but I don't care about corporate interests.

I think more along the lines of "copyright isn't ok" rather than whether or not actions that happen outside of it are or are not.

I've discovered his channel this year, and he seems really based. Many great takes on the tech industry and its relationship with society

Based

He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.

Why is this news, 99,9% of society says piracy is ok? Has anybody in your life ever reproved you for saying you downloaded a movie, game etc?

here's the link on oddysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-i-will-never-pay-for-youtube-premium:b

"Video games are art and everyone everywere should have access to art" - A guy on youtube on the topic if piracy is bad

I feel like most people agree with this, most people who really hate piracy have a stick up their ass or really like money. I mean even alot of artists and indie devs are fine with a little piracy as long as they get enough money to make a living.