I think the total cost for me would’ve probably been like $5000 (USD) at least. Like at least 100 movies. 150 TV shows, 50 games.
After a very intensive calculations session, I come up with at least 7$.
Nice try, glowie
Nice try, glowie
I wouldn’t use that term, it has a… problematic history:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie
Etymology
From glow + -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA [N-Slur] glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.
Does it count if you barely watched/played it?
Way I see it, if I’m over 1:1, I’m owed more than I owe. You’re welcome, and/or, where can I pick up my check?
Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.
It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.
Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.
There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.
$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.
this is exactly why their numbers for ‘lost revenue’ is a load of shit… Most of us would be the same. If we couldn’t pirate, we just wouldn’t watch their shit.
This was tricky, but I estimate about $3.50
That’s one lazy loch ness monsta.
nice try Interpol!
Probably not that much. I ended up buying most of the games I pirated anyway. For me, it was because of sheer poverty.
These days, I don’t care enough about games to bother anymore.
Or, I own the media already, and just want an easy-ready version that I can video edit without having to fuss over decoders and crap.
Outdated image, these days we just remote into the FBI office, no FBI jacket needed.
Outdated image, everything goes through palantir now
What is the point of being in the FBI if you’re not going to wear the jacket?
Don’t you ever get cold and lonely without the jacket?
That’s for next week’s episode when I have to go out in the field to do the investigation.
(Investigating the donut shop near the crime scene, that is 🍩)
Nice try, FBI
There’s a lot of stuff that you can’t even buy now.
This kind of thinking is what the mpaa and others want pirating framed as. Very very little of what’s pirated would have been paid for at all had it not been available. I’ve paid to see sequels for movies that have pirated and have bought books based on series I’ve downloaded that I never would have bothered to explore if I had to buy them originally.
I’ve pirated books that are so rare their used copies cost hundreds of euros. Also there are the English academic publications, which have insane prices even by default, and boy do I love hoarding them. In general, I’ve pirated so much I have no idea how I’d even go about estimating the theoretical total cost.
OTOH I’ve also recently been thinking about how much money I have spent on legally obtaining media, going to concerts and film screenings and plays and exhibitions and everything else… Should be solidly in the four-digit area.
Let us not admit to possible crimes on teh Internet. :-)
Nah fuck it. I yaRrr’ed the pirates of the caribbean movies, fuck the mouse.
Participating in this community is practically admission already.
There are millions of us in the US, tens of millions of us worldwide. Are they gonna sue/jail us all?
I’d be fucked …
Currently around 70TB … over 2k movies, 1.8k TV shows (63.000+ episodes) and around 66.000 tracks by over 900 artists …
