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Nobody:
Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!
What could go wrong?
Nobody:
Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!
What could go wrong?
C’mon guys. Escape, colon q bang. It practically exits itself.
Wow, you even corrected the fonts. Splendid work!
which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.
Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:
It cheapens the endeavor
You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.
Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.
But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.
If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.
Why?
I feel attacked.
Solaris? The OS that shipped with nothing installed, not even a compiler? Yeah, it was like, so great.
If I can’t find something I want to pirate, I will sometimes break down and buy it, but always in physical media, which I immediately rip into my collection. I don’t use physical media, it’s too inconvenient, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay some megacorp so I can rent media and pretend I’m actually buying it.
Truthfully in a technical aspect: somewhat. But USENET is also largely unmoderated. So for the purposes of meaningful discussion, there is little comparison.
I remain unimpressed.
I mean, this all sounds like shit, yes. But sometimes things are only a little bit shit and yet the answer is still “redesign the approach” (ie: start over).