Seems a bit short sighted. There are some games, movies and TV shows that simply don’t exist to buy legally or even second hand.
Torrenting is the only way in some instances to preserve content.
Passionate gamer and Star Trek fan but the thing I enjoy most is writing. I’m not very good at it yet but it’s early days.
Seems a bit short sighted. There are some games, movies and TV shows that simply don’t exist to buy legally or even second hand.
Torrenting is the only way in some instances to preserve content.
Why would an iOS app be affected by Google?
Me using Ad Block on iOS
This is only supposed to happen if you stop paying for Instant Ink. Buying a new cartridge should still work. I’d take the printer back to the shop you bought it from and tell them its broken.
For games if there is no way of buying it new and supporting the developers I’ll just download a ROM. It makes absolutely no difference to the developer or publisher whether I buy it used or pirate it. They aren’t getting any of the money either way.
Or if it’s a PC game and I’m not sure it will run on my system I’ll pirate it and if it runs they get my money.
As for movies and TV if it’s available to buy on physical on DVD, Blu Ray, 4K Blu Ray I’ll buy it. But if it’s only streaming or on VOD I’ll pirate it. There’s been too many cases of purchased content being removed from peoples accounts.
Basically if they want my money it needs to be available to buy brand new in a way that won’t just disappear one day.
Until the strike I was subscribed to Apple TV, Paramount+, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime so I don’t pirate unless what I want isn’t available on physical disc or streaming.
If a streaming service removes original content because they don’t want to pay residuals I’ll torrent it.
Likewise anything new that comes out during the strike I’ll torrent. Once they start paying the writers fairly and guarantee protections agains AI for writers and actors I’ll be more than happy to start giving them my money again. But as things stand the studios pocket 99% of the money hence the strikes.
That’s all well and good until the little cherubs “accidentally” shine the light into the rear view mirror and directly into my eyeballs and in the time it takes for my eyes to be able to see shit again in the dark I’m now upside down and inexplicably in somebody else’s living room while still somehow in my car.
Unfortunately he’s never going to release it out of fear of Disney.
I don’t have tons of digital media so it’s stored on 2 4TB portable HDD’s.
I only regularly download and keep things that either aren’t available on streaming or are removed from streaming services.
But since the writers strikes I download most things I want to watch as the streamers aren’t getting any more of my money until they pay writers what they’re worth.
That’s the problem with digital games.
If you buy it legally the publisher might decide one day to take it away from you and you have absolutely no rights to stop them because you don’t own shit.
If you pirate the game then it’s yours to keep for as long as you want. Plus you get the added benefit of none of the draconian DRM that serves no purpose other than to punish people that buy the games legitimately.
Just to clarify that I only support pirating games when they have been removed from store fronts and there is no possible way to support the developer even if you wanted to.
So it could be worth reposting content from my communities to Mastodon to help grow the communities?
I’d like to know this too. Should I be posting content to Mastodon to increase the visibility of my communities or can they just see it from here?
When I checked Mastodon I could see communities but none of the posts.
This is exactly what I was thinking too.