What do you think about piracy?

[Anomalous ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧Anonymous]

just curious

[Unknown]

Piracy? It depends on the scenario.
Pirate someones work to make profit of it is in general a bad thing no doubt.
However when games such as eldenring force you to install easy anti cheat on your private computer then nobody should be surprised when many people wont pay a cent for the game but instead get the pirated version.
EAC has root level access to your computer, that means it can do anything.
Besides this garbage is chinese spyware, no doubt.

[RRW359]

I've changed my view over the last few months. Before I thought the real enemys were the people uploading stuff but since then I've realised It's necessary to have these things out there in case EA access prevents half your games from working or Valve says your OS is too old and now you can't access the stuff you paid for. They should be required to have official channels you can go through to get your games when stuff like that happens but until they do they will just have to put up with people putting stuff online without any way of knowing if anyone downloading it already owns the game or not.

[The Commendatore]

Only on Halloween.

[Magic A. I.]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Anomalous ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧Anonymous:

What do you think about piracy?

It's a service issue. If content cannot be delivered in an acceptable form, it will be pirated. Take this whole SWIFT thing and Sony hysteria for example. It's as if they wanted piracy to prosper. Which it did.

[kilésengati]

Ursprungligen skrivet av A&A ✠:

Ursprungligen skrivet av kilésengati:

There are a few places that allow for sharing physical backup copies with friends and family, like a mixtape as a birthday gift. However, not if those backups were created by circumventing DRM. Always check your jurisdictions' laws beforehand!

Well, it is clear that it is not very legal, but what exactly? Interestingly, the downloading and distribution of torrents (pirated files) is allowed, but the maintenance and creation of the sites themselves is criminalized. Double standards for the benefit of consumers :D

Torrents are not "pirated files" per se. They give easy access to a peer-to-peer file sharing networks. that's it.
There are many legitimate ways to use torrents, but for P2P networks hosting pirated content. Many free and open-source project offer torrents as an option for users that want to spare the projects resources, so they can use donations to pay developers instead of file hosters.

It appears sharing torrents/links to pirated content is regarded as inducing the capital crime of copyright infringement. But I'm not expert, so this is not legal advice. :D

[Dozer]

i can see pirating ♥♥♥♥♥♥ triple a games but indie games i just feel bad tbh

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Dozer:

i can see pirating ♥♥♥♥♥♥ triple a games but indie games i just feel bad tbh

Good kitty, support your local indie devs!

[A&A]

Ursprungligen skrivet av kilésengati:

Torrents are not "pirated files" per se. They give easy access to a peer-to-peer file sharing networks. that's it.
There are many legitimate ways to use torrents, but for P2P networks hosting pirated content. Many free and open-source project offer torrents as an option for users that want to spare the projects resources, so they can use donations to pay developers instead of file hosters.

It appears sharing torrents/links to pirated content is regarded as inducing the capital crime of copyright infringement. But I'm not expert, so this is not legal advice. :D

Each torrent file has metadata about the destribited content and trackers. Then you are downloading the stuff from the seeders, which makes it a very cheap way of sharing files.

Relax, I'm using them for scientific purposes :)

[AutisticPinoy989]

It's never a good idea. It's best to buy their stuff than download them for free.

[aqua star]

Well you got to travel the seven seas in order to find where No-Fingers Johnson buried his treasure.

[Crystal Sharrd]

It's pretty funny that they're scared of Britney Spears music. At least, I think it was Britney Spears.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprungligen skrivet av SagaxRabbit:

I suspect that piracy would have been quite a headache for the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English during the prime time between the 1650's and 1730's, but at this day and age it makes for interesting stories where treasure hunters have to search for stashed or sunken loot.
For the Somalians trying to keep the tradition of piracy alive and kicking... yeah no, they should definitely consider a serious change in their career choice. Makes for entertaining videos when they get shot out of the water though.

If you read books like Samuel Pepys diaires you get an ikling of how it worked back then.

The early days of the printing press and shops popping up that poperated their own presses and services for converting handwritten texts into books were very popular.

Yes, they were a bit of a headache in the sense that anybody could copy what the hell they wanted but the idea of copyright wasn't really relevant there.


What it did do was bloody wreck the English language as people like Thomas Caxton (who invented the press) never stuck to the same spelling for the same word, sometimes on the same page.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprungligen skrivet av A&A ✠:

Ursprungligen skrivet av kilésengati:

Torrents are not "pirated files" per se. They give easy access to a peer-to-peer file sharing networks. that's it.
There are many legitimate ways to use torrents, but for P2P networks hosting pirated content. Many free and open-source project offer torrents as an option for users that want to spare the projects resources, so they can use donations to pay developers instead of file hosters.

It appears sharing torrents/links to pirated content is regarded as inducing the capital crime of copyright infringement. But I'm not expert, so this is not legal advice. :D

Each torrent file has metadata about the destribited content and trackers. Then you are downloading the stuff from the seeders, which makes it a very cheap way of sharing files.

Relax, I'm using them for scientific purposes :)

Torrents can be bloody awesome.

As I'm disabled and can't travel easily, it's sod's law that most of my friends and family not only live nowhere near me but many live all over the world.

Because of this sharing photos and stuff to people becaomes easy when you can bung it up as a torrent.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Midori:

Ursprungligen skrivet av crunchyfrog:

Torrents can be bloody awesome.

As I'm disabled and can't travel easily, it's sod's law that most of my friends and family not only live nowhere near me but many live all over the world.

Because of this sharing photos and stuff to people becaomes easy when you can bung it up as a torrent.

What are the advantages of using a torrent file instead of using one of the very many cloud services?

Well, I'm primarily talking about things I've been doing for years, so this is before cloud services were really on the go.

But many are not free in any case.

A torrent is really just simple - if I have a load of photos I want to offer up to a few friends, it's far easier to put a single torrent, and send my friends the link. Leave it to them.

It's really just ease and habit,.

[A&A]

A few months ago, a friend of mine was looking for an old game that is abandonware, so I found what he was looking for in archive org, and because the site allows downloads via torrents, and the download speed was terribly slow, something like 200kb/s, I started downloading the files. They got to about 30% then my friend started downloading at 10MB/s from me which was great.
That's exactly the beauty of torrents is that file sharing doesn't just depend on one system, but on the participants, which makes the service cheaper to maintain and more reliable.