How do you even start to quantify something like a TV show? Without piracy would you have had subscription services, seen it free when it came on local TV and/or bought a box set of it? Similar situations exist for other media too, which “full price” are we talking about?
Hence the term “sunk cost fallacy”.
It’s more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.
Are you suggesting that AAA games are such premium, high quality products they should only be experienced by a few wealthy individuals who can afford the budget to buy them? Because that is what your analogy suggests.
At a glance it looks like software to roll your own pirate bay equivalent? Not sure why you’d want to do that exactly when there is bitmagnet to sit on top of the torrent dht?
Copyright laws are not universally enforceable in general, so I fail to see your point. They are enforceable in the US where the big AI companies looking for a free lunch are operating though so let’s focus on that shall we?
If I have to pay to use copyright material to train my own Actual Intelligence, I don’t see why companies with massive development budgets should get to use vastly more material to train their “AI” models for free.
I’m absolutely against the idea of EULAs but the fact remains they are only enforceable because it’s the copying that is the reserved right, not the distribution. If it was distribution then second hand sales would be prohibitable (though thanks to going digital only that loop hole is getting pulled shut slowly but surely).
It’s about making copies, not just distributing them, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to be bound by a software eula because I wouldn’t need a license to copy the content to my computer ram to run it.
You’ve clearly never supported users on windows and macos when they weren’t already familiar with it or you’d never imply that windows and macos had intuitive interfaces that nontechies could take to instantly. None of them do but for a long time the default interface people were introduced to and taught to use was primarily windows unless they were doing art or media when they got introduced to macos instead.
You should download it to a personal media server and stream it to your phone if you want to enjoy piracy the modern way.
This… It’s not so much that I’d never advocate a windows install, it’s that linux should be the first port of call and Windows be the specialist fallback for when Linux doesn’t handle the use case well.
Put it on an isolated vlan, run your own ntp server and if needed spoof the ntp dns it uses… Easy 😅
An iso is a dump of a kind of rom…
Isn’t that the point, to fuck up digital advertising accounts so the data is unreliable and can’t be used?
While I’m sure usenet us all you say it is and more, I object at a philosophical level to paying for what is essentially a piracy service.
While true, they tend not to bare the costs of the environmental damage, at least when these activities are poorly regulated.
But once you have it’s output, unless you already know enough to judge if it’s correct or not you have to fall back to doing all those things you used the AI to avoid in order to verify what it told you.
Aren’t you letting perfect be the enemy of good here? You are looking for a unicorn and likely will never find it.
They released the engines for the games minus 3rd party libraries they didn’t have rights to. Working builds were available within a day of the code being released as people found copies or wrote replacements for the missing code.
Disappointed to see so many people picking and choosing what is and isn’t acceptable to pirate.
We don’t know the OP circumstance and it’s a big assumption that he can just pay and it not be an issue in some way.
Average people deserve to get paid but we aren’t talking about scamming some custom content out of them, they already made the material in question and it’s a sunk cost, selling copies is as much rent seeking behaviour as when it’s done by big companies.
Also, let’s not use emotive incorrect language like “stealing” as it’s not, it’s copyright infringement, no one is stealing anything.