I tell kids these days they are totally in one of those YAF novels where the teachers and ministers and testers (and even parents) are all in on the plot to force you through a doughboy program that turns you into an interchangeable, disposable, replaceable soldier or laborer to be exploited and discarded in some billionaire’s vanity project, all the while the world is covered in plastic residue and is liberally burning.
IP maximalist indoctrination feels entirely on par, especially considering how disengagement is a far greater threat to media industries than piracy.
Incidentally, IP infringement, including copyright infringement is never theft. Cheating creators and developers of a fair share of the profits, however, is theft.
If I was ever a parent of someone being taught anti-piracy lessons in school, I’d have to show him the error of the lessons by showing him the money I’d be saving by pirating and telling him that the money I don’t spend on large companies will in fact not kill them. Gotta set a good example.
So you mean there are all these movies, media, software that I can get for free, when I’m too broke to purchase it or subscribe to it and my parents wont buy it?
It’s like DARE, only that the drugs are actually free this time.
Google docs is the only (good) free doc editor app
My god, are you crazy? As a editor, LibreOffice Writer is much better and featurefull. The only counterside is the lack of native cloud sync, but there’s workaround in that
Does your local public library offer audiobook downloads? In some places they do. If not then maybe you can see if you can get a library membership at a different library system that does offer them.
Pretty soon we’ll be hearing from people asking about finding free planks to walk, peg-legs, treasure maps, trained parrots, eye patches, and rum. Yo-ho-ho!
Personally, I feel the same way you do about DRM. If you’ve paid to own it, then it should be owned outright. With this in mind, I would say pirating them wouldn’t lose you any moral ground.
I also rip a lot of stuff from Spotify using soggfy, I’ll make long playlists and just leave it running over night ripping everything. It requires a bit of sorting out afterwards into respective folders for artist / album etc but that is a price I’m happy to pay for the saved money of not having to buy all the releases.
Anything I can’t find on either of those but still really want I will usually buy on bandcamp.
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