• @mriormro@lemmy.world
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    2731 year ago

    I’ve been pirating since I was a child. That being said, I don’t think it’s particularly healthy to pin ‘media pirating’ as a personality trait.

    • @DrQuint@lemm.ee
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      261 year ago

      Yeah, I basically stopped pirating entirely despite doing it relentlessly early in life. I still owe Capcom a thousand bucks if I am to pay that one alone back.

      The basically part is that I still pirate what little music I need. Fuck the music industry.

        • @mriormro@lemmy.world
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          61 year ago

          I basically do the same. I buy a majority of albums as records from my favorite bands or just bands I want to support.

    • Colonel Sanders
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      191 year ago

      Yup. Pirating is about filling a need where companies sorely lack in providing services. When a company provides a shitty service or offers no viable alternative to obtaining something I would gladly pay for, pirating bridges that gap.

      • @mriormro@lemmy.world
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        231 year ago

        Because, at the end of the day, we’re basically just downloading commodity entertainment. There’s nothing directly substantive about that and that’s fine. Not everything we do needs to become a direct part of our identity.