I am far too poor to afford to buy shit. If I can’t pirate shit, I just do without. The only thing I pay for is music because they did it right. Mostly the same music on every platform. None of this exclusive bullshit. Plus it’s easier than piracy. Plus I listen to so much music
so, usually if i can’t find it through direct download or torrent, i might try asking around, or looking in open directories even, and if all of that fails i lay awake at night Really bothered
It’s never really about the price, it’s about the convenience.
Yeah, sometimes I go so far to buy a game on Steam that got given away for free by Epic. EGS has the tendency to log me out all the time (maybe too many login across a bunch of devices) which annoys the heck out of me.
I agree, I choose the option that gives me the best experience. That is normally an unofficial option. For instance, I want to choose the tv shows accessible for my daughter. I want her to have access to tv shows from all over the world. There is no official service that offers that.
The latter, because I don’t have money
Depends on what it is… if it’s a movie that I can’t find, I’ll usually just wait until an ethical version shows up somewhere later.
If it’s a research paper or a book I’m looking for, though, I take paywalling as a personal insult - I usually go to extreme lengths to obtain it, and I usually do get it.
Give up, it’s all just entertainment for me, so i can just go and be entertained by something else.
this is da wae
I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.
Depends on how much I want it.
For music, I buy the CDs (if I can) to support the artist.
But I also recently ripped my whole spotify playlist.For other types of media, if it’s not in the quality I want, and it’s reasonable in price, I’ll pay it.
Then I’ll rip it and put it in my library.The album that costs $10-$20 puts less than half a dollar to the actual maker. Single digit pennies more often than not.
Concerts get them the most income and Ticketmaster is monopoly. Government, Govern Mente, to Control the Mind
If think with Mani Mani, you will be speaking with opposite meaning, not knowing why, and be psychotic because you will be physically attacked by objects and stop trying to understand anything anymore.
Cult.
I don’t think I will go over to Japan Comiket Bi-Seasonally to buy the CDs I’d like from an indie circle.
Tell them to accept Monero and send you an address to their wallet and and pay them directly for a digital copy of anything they make.
That’s a giant crack in the industry’s Vampiristic manipulation of manufacturing Golems. You get to show direct respect and appreciation to the artist. You want them to understand how their creation helped, inspired, healed, motivated, and in many ways just all around benefited you and enough people you know and care about that may do the same as well.
You also aught to learn how to properly encrypt and sign over PGP so that they equally acquire the kind of ability you both master being able to just ignore the Golems and make the Crack burn.
I’ve tried that though. I don’t understand it. I liked shit from the other side of the ball; and you gotta do this to get that. I learned from making a dedication of learning and understanding Base Logic itself and you should understand the importance of FOSS to conduct that at this using binary managedment of what you must now call the host a large amount of Logic management you respect now. Whether you know that or not.
It is the most vital asset to any person’s sole’s interaction with a computer because without it, you will never know whose instructions it follows, nor why.
Without it everything is just a gambling and you are now the entertainment being advertised in a chaos bartered broadcast. You don’t have to know why they’re watching you or how because Hellraiser and everyone else you saw way back when is now in Betelguese with Heath Ledger.
I never pay Capitalist corps/people unless pressured to a corner (most groceries, loans etc). I know they cheat, steal and lie - pretty much 24/7 - as their ‘free market’ gospel dictates, so any support for such a selfish/psychopathic organization are like shooting my self in the foot.
Intellectual ‘property’ is a special anti-intellectual joke that have emerged inside an existing Capitalist dystopia where everyone have to fight everyone else for their lives. So suddenly, some Capitalist smuck could whistle a tune, declare that sequence of sounds as “MY PROPERTY” and then - through violence! - everyone around the world have to pay this moron for the sequence of sounds. It doesn’t get much more dumb than that. We even see cities ‘protect’ their landmarks, so a f’ing photo is illegal without paying up, copyright for well known everyday things, and so on. It is incredibly easy to find insane examples. It’s all a race to the bottom, sigh… Oc, Capitalism have zero to do with ‘free markets’, and everything to do with warring/exploitation/protectionism - but all corps will always exploit.
Unfortunately, Capitalism runs on pure scarcity, so we can’t have surplus objects that can just be copied, tsk tsk, what disorder !! And of cause, if one lives in such a crappy backwards society, then everyone HAVE to fight for data that can be copyrighted, data that could otherwise be copied a gazillion times for everyones joy. So, Instead of free access to all that can be freely copied/enjoyed, we have capitalist silo’s of ‘property’, where everyone are forced to pay up to a conglomerate of capitalist cancer-like entities that will go to any length - even jailing people that refuse that violent/ridiculous property nonsense. No no, for propertarians, it’s better to slam everyone in the world with laws/threats of harm, to invade peoples privacy, and to have a whole multi-trillion business market, and an insane amount of law resources constantly working to keep this joke of a principle running. It all arose from out of that flawed premise of everyone fighting everyone else… Inefficient, stupid, and all just an unnecessary emergent artifact on top of the dumbest ideology the oligarchs ever invented.
I completely agree with what you’re saying.
It’s the morons among us that can’t accept they’ve been taken for a ride.
Keep searching , never ever give up .
Depends on the thing, how much money I have, and whether I think it’s worth it for the price they’re charging.
Like when I don’t have time to make bread I just steal it from loblaws.
I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.
There’s a child of books that I’ve bought in this way.
Also I bought some books that I’ve pirated, to support the author.
Piracy is my main resort been doing it so long. After HD-DVD lost I was done buying media. Don’t get me wrong I still pirated before that but it was more renting and ripping DVDs.
I’m rich, so I buy it, rip it and upload it to pirate bay.
Thank you for your service.
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