"dude, help i think i might have peed my pants a little.."
"DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST PISS YOUR PANTS NEAR ALL THESE PEOPLE?"
In many regions, a large portion of the latest stuff just isn't available legally at all. Piracy is then the only way to watch the mandalorian for example.OP is either sheltered or a narc. People talk all the time about pirating stuff, especially when I was in college. People want to watch, listen, and play things with convenience, and if their financial situation or the ways to get said product are inconvenient, they're going to pirate. And piracy is so unenforced by local authorities, that people talk about it in the open.
I feel sorry for the children if their first exposure to Frozen 2 is a crappy bootleg "HD" CAM, although I think your last sentence meant they failed to even put it on. CAMs are the absolute worst, though, and ruin the movie experience. Can barely see anything and the sound is often mistimed/poor. If you are going to pirate crap, at least wait until a copy comes out where you can actually tell what is going on fully ;p.
Wow, can't believe I'm watching The Mandalorian footage when my country doesn't have Disney Plus.
Dude, did I just admit to a crime?
I was brought up in a family where casual piracy of C64 and Amiga games was completely normal, to the extent that I had no idea we were even doing anything wrong until my mum told me off because I'd wrote something about doing it in my school work.
These days it seems to be less about the games and more about movies/TV shows. Most people seem to have Netflix, and only pirate things that are harder to find, but I know at least one person who torrents everything because he complains that he can't buy any content to keep and play on his Kodi box, and he has no interest in subscription/streaming services. He claims he'd pay for stuff if the industry would sell it to him in a format that worked on Kodi and he could keep. No idea if he's just using that as an excuse though.
Give the little guy an eye patch and he could be the mascot for pirates worldwide.
Its only a crime if you admit it on this forum. Don't you get banned for admitting to downloading?
It's weird how trigger-happy the mods are on piracy discussions. I once got a 3 day ban for "Advocating piracy", only for the ban to be lifted an hour later because it turned out the mods fucked up and I didn't actually advocate piracy. I even got a PM from the mod telling me this:So is admitting to piracy on this forum a bannable offense or not?
Hello MartinB105,
You were briefly banned for three days for advocating piracy. This was a misunderstanding and your ban has been lifted. Apologies for any inconvenience we caused you!
Take care,
Legit wonder how OP would react if he was at the barber shop when the bootleg DVD man came in.
And you only get banned if you admit pirating here, you can run ROM site and they will not do anything lolIt's weird how trigger-happy the mods are on piracy discussions. I once got a 3 day ban for "Advocating piracy", only for the ban to be lifted an hour later because it turned out the mods fucked up and I didn't actually advocate piracy. I even got a PM from the mod telling me this:
The thing I find most weird about this policy is that, although I can't cite specific examples right now, I'm sure I've seen people admit far worse things that are illegal and not get banned. For example, stories in which the poster was DUI or speeding. That's the kind of shit that can kill someone, and yet admitting it is perfectly A-okay, but if you ever admit to downloading a NES ROM, you're gone for three days.
A lot of my first movie experience were cam.I feel sorry for the children if their first exposure to Frozen 2 is a crappy bootleg "HD" CAM, although I think your last sentence meant they failed to even put it on. CAMs are the absolute worst, though, and ruin the movie experience. Can barely see anything and the sound is often mistimed/poor. If you are going to pirate crap, at least wait until a copy comes out where you can actually tell what is going on fully ;p.
Used to work in IT for the police.
Spoiler alert: Everyone does it. E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E. Even there. Plex servers being opened up for colleagues with hefty 'legitimate' libraries...
How does that work? If you admit to running a ROM site, then surely that's a direct implication of admitting to piracy?And you only get banned if you admit pirating here, you can run ROM site and they will not do anything lol
You don't have to, you can use the same username/avatar from the one in your ROM site and be obviously the same personHow does that work? If you admit to running a ROM site, then surely that's a direct implication of admitting to piracy?
And I was so flabbergasted. I literally said out loud "Dude, did you just admit to a crime?"
I have to admit, this made me laugh out loud OP.And I was so flabbergasted. I literally said out loud "Dude, did you just admit to a crime?" was.
I'm just saying that talking about in front of the people who allow you to keep your job (especially considering what kind of company it is and where said higher-ups have worked previously) is probably playing with fire a bit.
It's weird how trigger-happy the mods are on piracy discussions. I once got a 3 day ban for "Advocating piracy", only for the ban to be lifted an hour later because it turned out the mods fucked up and I didn't actually advocate piracy. I even got a PM from the mod telling me this:
The thing I find most weird about this policy is that, although I can't cite specific examples right now, I'm sure I've seen people admit far worse things that are illegal and not get banned. For example, stories in which the poster was DUI or speeding. That's the kind of shit that can kill someone, and yet admitting it is perfectly A-okay, but if you ever admit to downloading a NES ROM, you're gone for three days.
Isn't that the rule that nothing counts here if it happens elsewhere? As far as I'm aware, that rule applies to everything a user does outside of this site, not just piracy.You don't have to, you can use the same username/avatar from the one in your ROM site and be obviously the same person
Dude, no one was openly defying crap. This whole fixation on the fact that there were no-nonsense, formerly military guys around is such a weird excuse. These are the kind of bosses I've exchanged shit with that I downloaded from the internet at work. These are people too. If you are worrying about not being let go, just focus on doing your job well and stop caring about the harmless stuff other people say or do. Be weird and act weird and unfriendly towards your colleagues within earshot of your bosses and you'll see yourself increasingly excluded in this kind of environment.I dunno. I said it in a split second without thinking it through.
I guess subconsciously I try to not let these people find reasons to let me go, so to see someone openly defy that threw me for a loop.
And yes, I see the irony in the above statement.