Which seas do you avoid?

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Software. 99% of the time there is some Free Software alternative that either somehow does the job for my personal tasks, or is better anyways.

  • salarua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    i refuse to pirate indie games. i will always buy games that are independently released or from small publishers because 1. they’re just trying to break even (unlike publishers like EA and Activision who have millions of fans lining up to buy their repetitive junk) and 2. they almost never have DRM. i’ll also buy my music for similar reasons; 99% of artists can barely make a living and i really do not want to contribute to that statistic

    • CuteistFox@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Same with some exeptions (when i cant afford it or when its very complicated to buy or if i had it and (insert game store here) removed it from my library)

  • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    So there is a thing I kind of pirate, but not entirely – e-books.

    But thing is, our public library page has e-books and some of them are available to be read online. Now I cannot officially download them, however opening a network tab on browser console shows me a request to download the whole .epub file. So what I do is copy that request as curl and just download it via terminal.

    Is it piracy, probably, is this resource publicly available for me to read, definetly yes.

    Other than that I don’t really pirate much else.

  • dzaffaires@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Video games, because it’s easier to do it legally. If it was as easy for other media, I would do it that way.

  • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Anything that is an executable on PC (software / games) due to security risk. Game ROMs for emulators are fine.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    It’s not that I won’t but I do try to go out of my way to support smaller artists I enjoy, especially nowadays.

    Lucky it’s gotten a lot easier with sites like Bandcamp, but it’s better if I can buy directly from the bands own store.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Pretty much anything that I can buy easily without going to second-hand or stupid subscriptions. For me, it’s really a service problem, not a cost problem.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Nothing nowadays.

    I’ll pirate indie games, see if it like it and if I do - I buy them to support the developer.

    Similar with ebooks, I pirate them, read and if I like it. I will buy the physical book to support the author.

  • Firipu@startrek.websiteEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    Not refusing, but lately I basically don’t pirate games anymore. Steam made it so easy to buy games… + pirating games is always a pita with the required hacks etc. (or at least it was way back when I did it).

    Software I don’t pirate, I just use foss stuff wherever I can.

    I also don’t pirate books in general. Just get them on Kindle and support the author (and unfortunately also Jeff bezos)

    I pay for Netflix (mainly for kids) and go to the theater for big movies, but aside from that I pirate all screen content.

    I also pirate comics, but that’s 90% because it’s almost impossible to get them legally where I live. I would pay for DC unlimited if it was available in my neck of the woods.

    • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      I’m pretty much the same. Although my e-reader supports generic epub files, so I go to whichever book shop site and look for ebooks.

      When I bought my e-reader, I specifically looked for one that wouldn’t lock me into their ecosystem too much.

        • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
          0·
          9 months ago

          I’ve been using Kobo Libra 2 for more than a year now. It’s good for me as I mostly read books. It’s black and white and has adjustable (intensity and temperature) backlight. One thing I’d recomend – get a case as well. The screen is rather soft and scraches easily.

          Other than that I can’t recomend much else since I haven’t had anything else. It’ll depend very much on your use case: do you need a collored screen, what do you intend to read, comics, PDFs, regular books.

          Reading regular books screen size does not matter as much as for PDFs and comics. And for comics colored screen might be a better choise.

          My general recomendation: an adjustable backlight is a must, both intensity and temperature, deside on a size and color requirements and start looking for something in your price range. Kobo and Onyx were the brands I looked at first, but there are others.

          • rasakaf679@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Thank you for your suggestion. I found an old Android tablet. I used ForceDoze app using Shizuku (temp root) to prolong battery life for 3 days for using 3 hour daily. And using Moonreader + for my books with reading mode and put on a hazy screen protector. It works wonderfully now. Setup was a bit of hassle. But now it’s done.