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National Institute for Gamer Review #22: “Piracy”
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A lot of pirate radio stations were offshore in international waters where the law couldn’t reach them, on ships, maybe that’s where the “piracy” term got popular from. They also used offshore WWII AAA platforms off the UK coast, which was the origin of Sealand, the “micro nation” you may have heard of.
I still wish I could download a car.
That PS1 disc trick with the lid brought back some memories.
Holy men seed their torrents. Do you? ” Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few little fish.” So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitude. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left. Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. ” Matthew… Read more »
There was software piracy before internet ubiquity, using blank floppies and later blank writable cdroms. Music piracy was a bit harder though and amounted to recording songs from CD onto cassette tapes or off the radio onto tapes. I remember bootleg VHS anime. We called it bootlegging with music and video tapes.
I’m completely against the concept of intellectual property. To me, property has the requirements of being tangible and scarce (or finite). If something is intangible and infinitely reproducible then it’s not property.
Does anyone remember AOL chat room mass mailing/server bots? I also vaguely remember IRC (internet relay chat) rooms that had people running bots that would pass out lists of their available files and they would email them to you as attachments. Mostly pictures of nude ladies, but lots of software too, and the beginning of MP3s.
One thing that never gets talked about with digital products is that they are not products, not by any traditional standard. They don’t have an expiration date, they don’t require storage space, shipping costs, they don’t have to stock inventory, and they don’t depreciate in value.
I stopped stealing music because the quality was terrible… also the cable company sent a letter to my parents
My number one reason for pirating movies is because I want to watch it but I don’t want to pay for it.
Yeah, because fuck funding jews and their schemes.
My number one reason for pirating movies is because I’ve already bought it at least twice on VHS and DVD. Also because it’s formatted in a way that I can cut certain scenes to use in music videos.
Yeah there were so many additional angles I thought of after the fact, like System of a Down commercializing the phenomenon. Definitely the ethics of (not) paying for something you’ve already bought, perhaps multiple times, is another. Putting out Blu Ray after DVD is bad enough, but forcing people to pay for 4K digital license after they’ve already purchased a 1080p license is particularly heinous.
Someone’s put the work in to upscale it and probably wants paying. I don’t think it should be full price but a fiver sounds reasonable.
it’s crazy to me when i meet zoomers and esp millennials who pay for music or vidya
Louis rivaling nick mason in environmental sound quality
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1488th!