(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        I still don’t know how I2P would be able to mask where the packets go to or come from, even if they encrypt the contents

        • 31337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

          Onion-like routing. It takes multiple hops to get to a destination. Each hop can only decrypt the next destination to send the packet to (i.e. peeling off a layer of the onion).

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    you can pirate games but don’t jerk yourself off about it, you don’t have to justify downloading video games as media preservation to not be a bad person because of it

  • VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Look guys, you don’t need to justify your piracy. There is nothing ethically wrong with pirating media.

    Anticonsumer practices are justification enough. If someone has a childish response of “uR sTeaLiNg!!”, give them an equally childish retort and tell them to eat your farts.

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      You pirate to preserve media.

      I pirate because I like pissing off billion dollar conglomerates.

      We are not the same.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        1·
        10 months ago

        I am with this guy… Piracy generates some of the best corpo cope content

        Priceless seeing them getting twisted INA not about it with all of their lawyers and can’t do shot about some poor sucker just watching it without laying daddy the tax hehe

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday

    A bit late if you already told a commercial company about your piracy, as well

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Damn I’d talk about it on national tv here in Australia. It’s just piracy, nbd.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Idk abour other people but i pirate everything first and if its good i buy it. I pirated a bunch of games back in the day and bought the good ones. Terraria, geometry dash, minecraft, etc(can you tell i played on mobile lol)

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Historical piracy was never about social justice, especially when you consider that a number of pirates during the 1600-1800s received government’s blessings to operate, so long as they didn’t attack the nation’s ships.

    Pirates simply did on sea the same thing highway robbers have been doing on land since the dawn of civilization.

    • TwinTusks@bitforged.space
      0·
      10 months ago

      I love paradox games, but the amount of dlc is killing me. I love how they continue to support their games, yes, but damn.

      • Nikkii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        And then when they do update the game, and add 20 more dollars of new dlc at the same time, if you’re someone who likes mods, well congratulations. Your installation is ruined and you can’t go back to your saved game(s) without there being some level of headache involved. At this point a high seas version of stellaris would probably be a relief, since there’s no auto updates and all dlcs. But here I am, a sucker who bought like three-quarters of the dlc over the years and can’t even play it because I’ll just be sad my last playthrough got ended prematurely with a dlc release… Fuck Paradox and all their games.

        • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          What are you on about? You can just turn off auto updates or revert back to previous versions.

  • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    “It’s expensive, but I still want everything, so I pirated it. Seems pretty justified.”

    Look, I’ve pirated a ton in my life, but this whole “This is actually a noble pursuit” is such a load of fucking horse shit. We want something and don’t want to pay the price that is required to get it, so we take it. The best part is “preserving” it, because we all know that when this guy is done playing, it will be deleted and he’ll never think of it again.

    • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Totally agree. The self aggrandizing, “hero of digital media preservation” thing is getting a bit ridiculous.

      • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        Aggrandize deez nuts bro. And being a hero of digital media preservation is only one of the myriad of reasons to pirate, such as

        1. Not accidentally signing away your rights to sue Disney due to forced arbitration when you avail a free trial of Disney+

        2. No drm

        3. Puts economic and financial pressure on the studio to keep games cheap

    • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      (i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles

      yessir imma ambush my friends about signal soon