Shut up, Sony. Stop pirating Adobe Apps then.
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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do these dumbasses think people pirate without vpns?
We once got a letter from our isp because someone who was at our dnd game night was using our internet to download shit without telling us so that was fun.
He stopped when we showed him the letter (he was the only guy with a laptop so it had to be him at the time)
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I do. I'm an idiot and already got emails from my ISP.
Well streaming shouldn't have fucking won
We were trying to be reasonable and compromise... I know, how naive of us
Now that the streaming industry plunged head first into enshitification, we are back to our previously held practices
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I may or may not have been pirating media for over 20 years and this song and dance will never end.
Sure, the well known torrent sites have marginally less content and seeds than before but my Plex server may or may not still be packed full of classics and the latest releases.
The above may or may not be purely fictional and victimless. And no, I wouldn’t “steal a handbag.” Handbags aren’t infinite digital replicas, and handbag owners don’t drive supercars.
(I draw the line at software largely due to the risks, and partly due to Mac apps and Adobe suite being locked down pretty well. I’m happy to pay for software regardless. Netflix and Amazon on the other hand…)
Shit, I didn't just pirate all the movies and TV shows I consume, but I also stole the server that hosts my Servarr stack that I download them onto from my last corporate job.
Yo ho ho, mateys, and a bottle of VPNs!
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ah all good....nothing is lost. everytime ppl hate murican corpos more, the world becomes a better place.
apple making it hard to install warez, google forcing playstore,gsf and manifest3 on ppl
everything american is always shit. period. because entire culture is built on being a shit person. dont blame tump or sony or microsoft...it is the american people that just suck all the time.
Do not conflate the people with the corporations.
And let's not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.
I'm also an American, and this is 100% accurate. My countrymen are assholes, and the only thing they've ever cared about are problems that directly affect them.
Huh, I'm American and I'm surrounded by people who are incredibly kind and nurturing and will bend over backwards to help others. Sounds like you live in a shit part of the country if you only have assholes near you.
You live in a country filled with people who voted Trump into power. You're surrounded by assholes, and if you don't think so then you're either an asshole with them, or a blissful idiot. I'll leave it to you to decide which.
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As an American, I approve this message. It's accurate.
as an American this is an absolute truth nuke.
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as digitized almost all societal functions are, we really should define basic internet access as a human right.
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Sony: still trying to make the Betamax monetization plan work....
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I've not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
Music piracy isn't rampant at all. It's the "immigrant crime is out of control" of the internet.
If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.
Hell, most of the major labels post tracks themselves to sponge up that sweet ad revenue. You can just use the tool of your choice to download the audio straight out of it if you decide you want to keep it for later.
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Japanese corporate culture is fucking terrible. I don't understand how anyone can support these gaming companies.
Edit: Gaming/Entertainment
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surely this is only for torrents right? there should be no way they can detect DDL.
honeypots
People wouldn't pirate your shit if it was easily and cheaply available
And won't disappear the moment someone decides they won't pay "licenses" for it to be on the service you paid for it.
And, thinking specifically about Sony, doesn't include rootkits or similar invasive security nightmares.