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Um, is it normal for someone to casually admit to pirating stuff?
- Thread starter Poltergust
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Lmao exactly how I read it.
Will give OP the benefit of the doubt. Seems like a young'n.
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.
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.
What I do find odd are the people that brag about pirating. Like when someone mentions they watched something on hbo theyll go out of their way to talk about how they only torrent and make it sound like only chumps pay for hbo.
i was curious about the quality of what they were going to put on and how they were going to do it. Luckily we had seen it already, so i wasnt worried about ruining it for my daughter.
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.
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.
One of the first things my boss did was show me his websites of movie and tv rips and his nas and how I should get a nas to join the club
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?
Ohhhhh my god, I'm pirating The Mandalorian because Disney rip me and my countryman off with inflated pricing! Am I a criminal?
Give the little guy an eye patch and he could be the mascot for pirates worldwide.
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.
And you only get banned if you admit pirating here, you can run ROM site and they will not do anything lol
A lot of my first movie experience were cam.
VCD piracy was at a time, so bad that it was sold everywhere here.
dude..i used to serve as a military police here in singapore and we watched animes during the weekend for our breaks. Yes, all the animes with sub were .avi files :)
mod, don't ban me..it's been more than a decade.
How does that work? If you admit to running a ROM site, then surely that's a direct implication of admitting to 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
Some people just love to pirate stuff. Plenty of folks over here have themselves all set up with Android boxes that provide access to all channels worldwide, all sports events, latest movie rips etc. They download ebook PDFs, they rip games off, they use dodgy Spotify accounts where you pay once for unlimited lifetime use etc etc and they openly talk about it all the time, discussing the latest news on which service has been blocked or what VPN to use. IDGAF up to the point at which they find out you pay for stuff and they try and mock you for not knowing how to get stuff for free. I know how to do it motherfucker, I just choose not to. This seems genuinely baffling to them. They just can't understand it.
Personally, I think you should pay for stuff if you can afford it but if you're skint and you wouldn't be able to buy this stuff otherwise, then go for it. Or if there is no way to get something legally.
Apart from books. No-one should be ripping books off. They cost fuck-all, provide hours of entertainment and the author isn't getting rich apart from a select few.
Personally, I think you should pay for stuff if you can afford it but if you're skint and you wouldn't be able to buy this stuff otherwise, then go for it. Or if there is no way to get something legally.
Apart from books. No-one should be ripping books off. They cost fuck-all, provide hours of entertainment and the author isn't getting rich apart from a select few.
Well, the people I've encountered don't understand the concept. They just say "I'll download it from the internet" so to them the concept is lost, as long as it's on the "internet" then it's legal. So to be honest I don't have the time or energy to educate the public and it's not my job.
On Era, piracy is very hush hush.
In the real world people don't give a shit. Hell, in my line of work practically everyone openly pirates.
In the real world people don't give a shit. Hell, in my line of work practically everyone openly pirates.
Eh, I'm kinda with OP here. The fact that everyone does it doesn't necessarily mean it's a great topic to bring up in a professional environment. Everyone also shits daily but do I want to hear my co-workers boast about the size of their morning poop? Do whatever you want in your spare time but colleagues are not your besties to share everything with.
OP's story reminds me of when I was at a mall about 20 years ago with a friend and some of his friends that I didn't really know. We come across this guy selling N64 controller-shaped Famiclones from a stall. One of these dudes suddenly blurts out "These consoles are illegal! You're stealing from Nintendo!" at the top of his high-pitched voice. I don't know whether he thought the guy would run off or if a mob would form to tear the stall apart, but there was just this awful silence.
We all walk/run away pretty embarrassed and this kid follows and he's absolutely shaking with rage. He can't shut up about the guy selling these Famiclones. "He's destroying the industry! We need to do something!" Next thing he's calling the police who basically laughed at him down the phone and told him to stop wasting their time. He then called Nintendo who said they didn't really have anyone who could help him and that maybe he could write a letter with the details so they could investigate.
I didn't hang out with him again.
We all walk/run away pretty embarrassed and this kid follows and he's absolutely shaking with rage. He can't shut up about the guy selling these Famiclones. "He's destroying the industry! We need to do something!" Next thing he's calling the police who basically laughed at him down the phone and told him to stop wasting their time. He then called Nintendo who said they didn't really have anyone who could help him and that maybe he could write a letter with the details so they could investigate.
I didn't hang out with him again.
lolol, how? Have you ever heard of anyone getting fired, or even given a talking to because they pirated something in their own time???
Most of the time management doesn't even understand what you're talking about anyway.
I work in software development, and we freely talk about emulators and roms, and i know no-one paid to stream game of thrones...
I'd probably a weirder look from my boss if I explained how much money actually I spend on videogames :O
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I'd love to know what's going ton in the mod topic about this thread.
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.
It's not being a pirate that gets you banned here, it's admitting to it or advocating it (but admitting to speeding, DUI, or other dangerous things is perfectly fine).
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.
You made a silly social blunder, don't make excuses for it and just let it go already. You are making this a bigger thing that it has to be.