Yar har, fiddle de dee Being a pirate is alright with me! Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free You are a pirate! Ar yar, ahoy and avast Dinky-dink-dink-a-dinkadefast! Hang the black flag at the end of the mast! You are a pirate!
@AlistairGale4 ай бұрын
Arrr, copyright holders ain’t going after AI , just the little guy. I had some sympathy but no more.
@GregOughton4 ай бұрын
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
@FurryestX4 ай бұрын
F A C T S
@zonzore4 ай бұрын
So original but i love it!
@ultimategotea4 ай бұрын
Piracy never was stealing, just copyright infringement.
@thegreenxeno94304 ай бұрын
I downloaded a car recently.
@U9DATE4 ай бұрын
I was expecting to see the same copy paste comment. Even if it’s completely true
@makatron4 ай бұрын
Let's see what moves faster: - Government Bureaucracy - Piracy
@nobro7902 ай бұрын
A pigeon delivering a usb filled with pirated movies across 2 continents still moves faster than government bureaucracy 🤣🤣🤣
@the_undead28 күн бұрын
46:40 Just leaving this here so it's easy to find
@Spazza429 күн бұрын
Easy. Piracy.
@cIappo8963 ай бұрын
1) people who pirate usually don't ever intend to pay anyways 2) it can't be defeated 3) piracy isn't stealing because buying isn't owning.
@x0myspace0x2 ай бұрын
Amen to point #1. I buy maybe only 1-2 games a year because they offer something unique and fun. All the other games I play are pirated mostly because I don't really care about them that much. I also have the chronic habit of not finishing games, so shelling out $60 to only play between 10-20 hours is a waste of money in my opinion. I'm far more likely to wait for them to go on sale (with like 50% or 70% discounts). I'm very patient about playing games. If it weren't for piracy then I would simply not play most games or I would seek out sales / cheaper games that don't break the bank. Also, $60 (or rather 60€ because screw Europeans) is a lot of money where I'm from. The median salary where I live is like 1/5 that of the US. It's completely ridiculous that this price point has become the norm.
@snoopdogg9490Ай бұрын
My father makes 200 usd who is in a well paying job in my country so how do you expect me to pay 60 dollars for a game The reason i bought minecraft and allthe games i own is regional pricing. Minecraft here costs 265 of my currency which is 5.25 usd
@H4GRlDАй бұрын
I don't have any issues with buying software, on the other hand I hate renting software. In the second scenario I usually try to look for free / paid alternatives, if there's no viable option, well..
@suryavalluri3894Ай бұрын
Not actually the case for example I'm from India and I started playing games because of piracy cuz steam was not there and no online store and access to games was only through piracy. And after steam came also it was not easy to buy a new game even today costs around 10-30% of an avarage monthly income of a person even today the only reason I have gta 5 is because epic games gave it for a week when I got it and I still buy games but like one game in like 2-3 months if I have to play anything I'll look at free options which epic games gives every week or use an emulator with roms the prices of games being so high is pretty difficult especially a sale for a lower price will not cause the company to lose money as it's just a file so it just leaves a bad taste
@yellowblanka6058Ай бұрын
While I don’t condone piracy for contemporary titles, I can understand and sympathize people pirating games that would cost them a month’s salary in their local currency, I have less understanding for middle class first-world people with $1000+ GPUs pirating, but even in that case, it’s unlikely piracy being a non-option would instantly convert to a sale. If they want more people to purchase their media they have to make it worth buying, convenient and reasonably priced with out excessive, expensive DLC.
@Voltaic_Fire4 ай бұрын
Remember that piracy is a result of poor service, poor quality, and poor pricing. I've spent a LOT on games because Steam and GOG make it so easy to find and buy.
@Flyon864 ай бұрын
Some games are literally only available through torrents now too. I'd gladly buy Driver San Francisco or Freelancer (2003) if they were available through steam or GoG.
@rakdosrok58164 ай бұрын
@@Flyon86 Man I never thought I'd see another fellow Freelancer. One of my favorite games growing up. I got it running on my linux box and still play it from time to time.
@DemonaeTV4 ай бұрын
I can't even remember the last time I pirated a game. At least a decade. Steam has really good sales often enough that I can just wait a year or two on some game to be $10 with all DLC that would have cost over a $100 when it launched.
@Aereto4 ай бұрын
And Ubisoft is asking for their every published game to be pirated
@XVa-uj8m4 ай бұрын
I hope they aren't stupid enough to try going after rom sites here.
@lezlienewlands13374 ай бұрын
"Is Piracy Over?" Gabe Newell: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
@yumri44 ай бұрын
yep and thus why steam took off it had the same business model as piracy but for little cost which for most games is the cost of paying for a VPN and their data plan anyways. The 70 USD games yeah those are more than the cost but the convenience of it is still there. The problem the theaters are having is everyone in the USA was told to not go to them for 3 years straight so people got out of the habit of going to them. When told they could again even less people returned and the theaters had to provide something having it on blu-ray and/or streaming it will not do.
@joaocardoletto4 ай бұрын
I really wish movie studios had followed the Steam model instead of this bullshit thing of 25 streaming services with ever increasing anti consumer practices. I would gladly pay for content I actually care to watch, instead of having a vertical slice of every genre produced by each studio.
@mysteriousm14 ай бұрын
Gospel from our lord and saviour
@SherrifOfNottingham4 ай бұрын
The most important thing to remember about piracy... is that people pay for pirate streaming sites. Something tells me people willing to pay a piracy site don't have a problem paying for a legit service.
@marciusnhasty4 ай бұрын
@@SherrifOfNottingham Likelihood is that most of those people get content from all streaming services in one place and they are paying for convince IP holders aren't providing. Movies and shows don't need complex porting process like platform exclusive games and it's making it hard to enforce something being exclusive to any single streaming service.
@SherrifOfNottingham4 ай бұрын
Giving the power to a judge to block a site? I don't see how that won't be misused at all.
@LCaddyStudios3 ай бұрын
Something many people don’t actually know is that right before Tom Scott took a NordVPN sponsorship he did also briefly release a video saying “don’t trust our sponsors”
@he85352 ай бұрын
Time for Tor Browser to rise
@Mattimator4 ай бұрын
You know what causes actual job loss? Corporate greed.
@haraldbackfisch19814 ай бұрын
Can't repeat that enough!
@Unethical.Dodgson4 ай бұрын
I love when they claim that piracy causes job loss. Pirates weren't going to buy the shit to begin with. That's why they went and looked for a pirate option.
@Rob_Cahill4 ай бұрын
@@Unethical.Dodgson OR when they believe people who use those sites are actual lost customers. Most who use those sites either wouldn't buy the product or cant afford to. I'd give room for some might but most likely cant.
@kiloneie3 ай бұрын
@@Unethical.Dodgson And if they like that thing, they might buy it in the future, resulting in actually more sales than without it. But hey, we all know how smart these companies are.
@SmokeBloodyАй бұрын
They call it "optimization"
@cheeseisgreat244 ай бұрын
TBH the best way to destroy piracy is reduce the studio’s profits and stop going after infinite profit growth, so you can make content cheaper and more accessible. That would absolutely destroy piracy. Netflix literally almost killed piracy when it first came out, because you could literally get everything you wanted to watch in one place for an affordable price. Nobody wants to pirate things if they don’t *have* to because it’s Janky AF.
@eggyparrot38444 ай бұрын
Yeah but the only reason old Netflix could have basically everything at an affordable price was that it was trying to scale, and losing money while it did. Going after infinite growth, as you said. Good movies and series can't be made without people paying for them, and a ~$10/month subscription for everything under then sun just cant fund the type of big expensive productions or medium sized niche films that were common before streaming
@ClayKBFP4 ай бұрын
I didn’t pirate and paid for Hulu and used my Parents Netflix Now I would need my own Crunchy Roll, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Stars, and HBO on top of a $70 internet bill. I’ll pay for a subscription if I like a show and am watching it while it’s coming out but $75-90 a month in subscriptions is absurd.
@dankrigby56214 ай бұрын
@@eggyparrot3844 good movies and games could be made with way less money, and that was the case some years ago. the problem is that higher ups and suits take most of the cuts, while the devs put in all the important work. then there are way bigger marketing costs that most of the time arent really that necessary, and bad decisions by people on the board that dont even understand the product they are directing, since they arent working on it and arent in any way invested in it, other than seeing green numbers.
@DefaultMale_4 ай бұрын
Brazil pirates games more than any other country. That's because games in Brazil cost so much it's like spending £/$300 on a game - it doesn't make sense to pay for them. That's why you should localise prices.
@cheeseisgreat244 ай бұрын
@@eggyparrot3844 It absolutely can though. The only thing that has to happen is big budget productions need less influence from the bean counters so that the productions are actually good and therefore remain profitable. Notice how Netflix created some excellent shows that they cancelled because they didn’t increase subscriptions. They were still making loads of money on the production, they just didn’t like that they couldn’t instantly increase their profit instead of merely making money on it.
@CoryRayGordonMusic3 ай бұрын
Antipiracy ad of the 90's: You wouldn't steal a car! 10 year old me: You can't download a car.
@lck0ut3483 ай бұрын
Sim racing enthusiasts: "Hold my beer"
@postmodernmining2 ай бұрын
Weird Al's Don't Download This Song
@CuunkeАй бұрын
i for for sure would download a Corvette if i could right now off Piratebay
@_PatrickOАй бұрын
Back in the 90s, you had to go to the library and "pick up" cars out front.
@GearSoundsАй бұрын
So the ability to download something makes theft okay. Seems like a solid argument... 🤣. So once food and money are downloadable they are fair game too right by your argument?
@jersydvl2 ай бұрын
Is piracy over? No. as long as companies continue to not allow you to own your purchase piracy will continue and rightfully so.
@christianames216121 сағат бұрын
And holding onto the rights to as many old movies/tv shows possible. If you want to legally stream the Adam West batman show, one of the most popular shows of the 20th century, your only options are to pay google or pay apple for the individual episodes. I would gladly pay for them if I knew that a majority of the money went to the cast and crew members who are still alive, but it honestly just seems like another one of a million things google and apple advertise to me daily to try and pay them a few more bucks.
@ShadowTheHellJumper4 ай бұрын
The fact that the CEO of the MPA is trying to convince people that pirated movies are the direct cause of layoffs as opposed to their greed and need to keep costs down is a colossal joke...
@BaronVonQuiply4 ай бұрын
Ding ding ding! We have a correct answer, and not enough other people saying it 👍
@JessicaFEREM4 ай бұрын
the employees: layed off by the thousands the ceo: millions of dollars annual salary raise
@luandoduy4164 ай бұрын
Yes, millions of dollars lost. It's lost because it's not in their pockets
@God__Emperor_4 ай бұрын
But they are not keeping cost down. Almost every movie now has 300 million dollar budgets. Shows cost millions per episode.
@ivoryowl4 ай бұрын
Yeah, the layoffs are not at all related to the unsustainable growth from the c o v i d era that they are now trying to cut back on because there's not as much digital traffic as when everyone was locked up at home... Or the fact the industry has been on a profit-driven overdrive, doing everything they can milk and dime their costumers while also cutting corners in their quality standards. Or that we're going through a recession and a lot of people simply no longer have the money to spend on non-essential goods and services, like movies and videogames. Or that most big movies in these past few years are costing upwards of hundreds of millions dollars in budget, with mediocre results at best, and this over-expenditure combined with poor reception means they lost a ton of money they want to recoup. But sure, let's imply the reason why these people are losing jobs is because of piracy. Yet another "things are going to hell and it's your fault" excuse card. They sure love to blame everyone but themselves...
@howling-wolf4 ай бұрын
Buying != Owning Piracy != Stealing If the button says buy and the license says something thats not BUY, its bullshit.
@hornattila4 ай бұрын
IMO if the button says "buy" or similar, it should automatically legally invalidate every single EULA and TOS and whatever fuck that says otherwise. companies should be legally forced to turn the buttons into "rent, and we can remove your access anytime" (have to include that exact long text with same font size) if the button says "buy" and the company removes your access without a good reason (going out of business) you can sue them and they should lose automatically and forced to pay for all expenses
@joshallen1284 ай бұрын
@@hornattila rent long term lease and you pay property taxes on it every year because ownership means paying property taxes
@joshallen1284 ай бұрын
perpetual subscription doesnt exist, steam needs new sales to keep their service alive otherwise without new sales the platform collapses otherwise valve would need to charge a yearly fee akin to property tax to keep your account alive and active a keep alive, otherwise the account would become dormant, keeping games active and full disclosures this game no longer works and has an expiration date of xx
@Duke49th4 ай бұрын
@@hornattila how do you sue a company that is out of business? 😅 (but I agree with everything else you said!
@costadinover4 ай бұрын
@@joshallen128wtf are you talking about? do you pay property taxes on your clothes? do you pay property taxes on your books? No, owning stuff doesn't require paying property taxes, that's only reserved for certain types of properties.
@Jaxar203 ай бұрын
NZ has a three strike rule. ISP's pushed back saying hey this will incur us costs to process all these requests. This was taken into account and the law requires the rights holder to pay $20 NZ for each request. It essentially makes the cost of pursuing piracy higher than the cost of the actual piracy.
@cashnelson23062 ай бұрын
based
@aviation_hacker2 ай бұрын
@Jaxar20 I'm in NZ as well, and always wondered why the three strikes essentially was never enforced - thanks for the info! :)
@LegionIscariot4 ай бұрын
I stopped pirating games a long time ago. But with all the anti consumer practices by these big companies sometimes i wonder what's even the point. Pirates are the ones actually preserving games 🤦♂️
@kevinerbs27784 ай бұрын
Well there's always G.O.G which does try to preserve older PC games.
@cokeweasel106424 күн бұрын
@@kevinerbs2778Can you launch the game without launching GOG? If not, then they're no different.
@kevinerbs277824 күн бұрын
@@cokeweasel1064 yes, you can launch the game entirely without the "G.O.G galaxy" installed at all. That's how all my G.O.G are installed. Just click the icon to the game itself & the game starts right up by itself. They wouldn't be called offline installers without that feature.
@roundearthshill24815 күн бұрын
same. It's been 10 years since I pirated a game. I was also broke 10 years ago and only pirated because I couldn't afford the games I wanted. Nowadays I buy whatever games I want...even if I only play Fallout 4, Starfield and CP2077...oh and iRacing.
@imoldgregg84 ай бұрын
Let me tell you something. Broke guys who get drunk and high in their 20s and cant afford video games will ALWAYS find a way.
@rawwrrob93953 ай бұрын
They probably wouldn't be broke and could afford games (and other commodities) if they weren't blowing so much cash on booze and weed. That stuff isn't cheap and people rarely pay attention to how much they spend on it.
@wongalahara81963 ай бұрын
@@rawwrrob9395 (that's why he said 20s)
@lukabrdar67323 ай бұрын
@@rawwrrob9395I pirated as a kid,nowdays i would buy games but dont have time to play so it doesnt matter,no company gets my money
@Nick-jt1if3 ай бұрын
@@rawwrrob9395I don’t blow my money out I’m just saving it for a motorcycle 😂😂
@benfaerber49563 ай бұрын
@@rawwrrob9395well you can't pirate booze...
@Anders04294 ай бұрын
Movie tickets at my local theatre are $22 per person. Piracy existing or not, there is no way I'm going to take my family to see any movie for that price.
@svpracer984 ай бұрын
22 per person, assuming a family of 4, is quite literally 4 months of 4k hdr Netflix.
@Illiminator314 ай бұрын
Rent, Wage for the Staff, Insurance, Cleaning Crews. What would be ur Solution to cut down prices? Reduce Staff wages?
@User-gx2cp4 ай бұрын
There is no solution for a dying industry. Movie theatres are kinda dated basically. If people aren't willing to pay the price, then the company either lowers them or shuts down. Crazy that movie theatres are still around. Paying money to share a crowded room with people? When you can for the same price rent a movie on your own HD Tv, or hell go to your friends place with a better Tv. Coordinate a fun movie night with some nice food with a group you know. What my family does, my uncle and grandma come over every friday to watch a movies or tv with my dad. Only reason my dad goes to movie theatres is to see a marvel movie that came out in theatres before the average consumer can. Wow actually to think that is kinda of a sad reasons movie threatres only exist, because they get access to movies a bit sooner. Which I think has recently changed a lot since streaming so yeah, just not really a point to theatres.
@hexitcz4 ай бұрын
In my country(europian country) it costs around 20-30 usd for vip movie ticket with infinite popcorn and other refreshments and a very comfy adjustable seats with armrests xd.
@polarpenguin34 ай бұрын
@Illiminator31 Most theaters make their profit off of concessions, not ticket prices. Some theaters have shown they can make more money by selling cheaper tickets and making the difference up with more concessions.
@courtlandbrugger67704 ай бұрын
companies showing utter disdain for their customers doesn't exactly make their customers feel like going out and buying their product. Piracy will never go away and my wallet will stay closed to any company that hates me or will not allow me to own what I buy.
@prezlamen79064 ай бұрын
I stopped buying long time ago. So no, piracy is stronger than ever. That means something is seriously, seriously wrong with the world. Before i pirated because i either had no money at the time or i was trying the game before deciding to buy. But today, corporate greed made it feel completely wrong to pay and completely morally ok to pirate, even though i have money to spend.
@tteqhu5 күн бұрын
See? There's a resurgence of people that take $$$$ out of the entertainment industry out of even spite. I know the money doesn't disappear, but the entertainment industry is totally justified to panic, as they probably see the numbers and trends.
@prezlamen79065 күн бұрын
@@tteqhu Awesome.
@RichardWinskill4 ай бұрын
Piracy is taking precisely zero monies from the economy; that money is just being spent of groceries and other stuff instead of movies.
@zazuch4 ай бұрын
This is a very valid point. I dont think those pirating go ohh that’s another $60 I can put into savings. No it goes to other things. So what he needs to say it’s possibly taking money from HIS pockets not the economy haha.
@clavius57344 ай бұрын
When I was a teen I pirated everything because I had little money, if I would not have been able to pirate, I would not have had it. But it’s not like it was for free in every regard, the freaking hassle involved in getting some cracked games to run- I would sometimes waste multiple nights on that.
@mabey80484 ай бұрын
@@zazuch too bad this guy is the one who can afford the lobbying to get laws in place
@zazuch4 ай бұрын
@@mabey8048 who Linus? He has money but he doesn’t have any money compared to global corporations money when it comes to lobbying lol
@mabey80484 ай бұрын
@@zazuch no the film guy who wants piracy gone. Linus isn't even American
@roflstomp98364 ай бұрын
Its the Gaben Quote. "piracy is a service problem" i will pay for it when that is the more convenient option
@roflstomp98364 ай бұрын
And that's not to say that i dont pay for it now. But if there is a chance that I will lose access, I'm going to take mesures against that
@Zack_Wester4 ай бұрын
@@roflstomp9836dont also forget that if you bought the product you got the worse version. anyone remember when Pirated copies of game ran faster ran better and did not cause masive security issues on users PC. because installing Rootkits on peoples PC when they install a game they paid for and need a CD/DVD to run. is completly legal and there is no du diligent on the rootkit aka it was so badly written that after like a day someone had figured out a way to hack any PC that had put the CD/DVD into the computer drive (the rotkit was installed at that point even before the user had seen the license agreement that did not even mention the rootkit) it was worse if you had somehow manage to get that ting to run on the more advance CD player stuff as that would just brick it permanently).... this was after the redbook CD audio on the other half of the game CD days. what was the order that the game devs/publisher was ordered to do. post a note on there site (that they hid really well no post on there social media or on the games news uppdate system about this. and a link to download a rootkit uninstaller several months after the game was out that requires that user gave them a Email address that expicided was stated would be shared by third parties (hope you gave them a burner Email because if you did not well hello even more spam).... also the uninstaller was so shit that anti virus would complain 3 times over on it, first over that the fact that the signatures was both outdated and missing. then the fact how it removes them was written in the worst way possible aka it trigger the any antivirus in existence because that is not how your supposed to do it since late windows 2000, there was more but I dont recall what clown show number that was so I will just mention that there was more. meanwhile the pirated copy perfectly fine you could install and remove the game and there was zero crap left after. the paid DVD oh the amount of junk was insane it was so bad that some other game would have problem getting instaled because of how shit the official installer/uninstaller was. the only positive thing was that it did not brick the system no mater where you installed it... something some old win95 game had (example I think some version of Casar 3 where if you for some reason installed it in C:/Ceasar3 would nuke the whole C drive.
@yuvalne4 ай бұрын
+
@bumblebeegamerreal4 ай бұрын
While some people say he is refering to Russia specifically, it still applies to other things
@roflstomp98364 ай бұрын
@@bumblebeegamerreal Russians are people just like the rest of us. its a no brainer to assume we will behave similarly
@daedaluslv20324 ай бұрын
Predicted sales are not actual sales. Actual sales can be even in minus. If we look at other industries where copying something is nearly impossible. 95% of companies and their products fail anyway. 95% of workers will gain nothing if copying is somehow removed completely.
@trinodot81124 ай бұрын
The scarier part is that if this law passes, once they realize that you can easily just use a vpn to bypass restrictions, vpns will be outlawed.
@purelogarithm4 ай бұрын
Businesses at large wouldn't allow that to happen - they rely on that for teleworking and site-to-site communications.
@the_undeadАй бұрын
Making vpns illegal in the US is almost impossible because the VPN industry collectively probably has more money than the media industry by a multiplication factor. So the media industry will never be able to effectively lobby against it because they simply lack the money
@artybrandtАй бұрын
@@purelogarithm theyd probably just lobby for a business exemption to a vpn ban while fucking over the average person
@MitchDenham4 ай бұрын
They tried this in Australia. It cost a metric-fuck-tonne. And was defeated by changing your DNS.
@Roxor1284 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, Telstra's routers don't let you change the DNS for the whole network, so you have to take the annoying option and do each device individually.
@LolSho0orTs4 ай бұрын
@@Roxor128 use pi hole as dns and dhcp
@Roxor1284 ай бұрын
@@LolSho0orTs Can't do network-wide PiHole if you can't reconfigure the router to point to the Pi. Still have to individually reconfigure every device.
@LolSho0orTs4 ай бұрын
@@Roxor128 you can't turn off DHCP on the router too wth ?
@Roxor1284 ай бұрын
@@LolSho0orTs Nope. Stupid thing won't let you change anything important. Telstra clearly want to minimise the possible avenues for customers to have reasons to call tech-support.
@speadskater4 ай бұрын
There would be less piracy if public domain stayed at 28 years from creation.
@oari11504 ай бұрын
how?
@jevans33754 ай бұрын
@@oari1150things like old video games where you literally can’t even buy those games anymore. In the term of movies there are plenty of old movies where you can’t watch it without pirating it anymore. If public domain wasn’t 99 years (thanks Disney :/ ) then it wouldn’t be like this if you want to watch a literally 60 year old movie you can’t watch it without pirating as the chances it’s not even on any steaming site
@akl2k74 ай бұрын
@@jevans3375Right, and you just know that not enough people are watching 99% of 50 year old movies and TV shows to make them profitable. Heck, it's probably closer to 99.999%. There's absolutely no reason for such lengthy copyright laws except for corporate bigwigs wanting to hold onto the handful of profitable franchises from a few decades ago.
@justanoman64974 ай бұрын
@@jevans3375 You know, trademark is use it or lose it. It would be nice if something similar is done for copyright. If it's not made digitally available(at least 50% of the time within a year) AND have not met a certain minimal physical print requirement, it should become public domain. Now, this could be a bit complicated when there are regional licensing matters to consider. But at least for country of origination, there should be use it or lose it enforcements.
@rkhale024 ай бұрын
@@jevans3375 Yeah i got caught years ago by my ISP for downloading The Godfather even though at the time it wasn't even on any streaming services. Stupid schmuck of a system we have here. Luckily they gave me a slap on the wrist and told me not to do it again.
@Karlos873 ай бұрын
We went form Cable to one or two streaming platforms, and we are going back to so many streaming platforms that its just time before a conglomerate appears and bundles bunch of streaming services into basically just internet cable.
@fatburdo3 ай бұрын
Here in Brazil we don't even bother with a VPN, one in a million chance of getting a notice and it has no court validity anyway
@vogonp42874 ай бұрын
Sometimes there's a series that is just taken off streaming services, and essentially erased from existence. There's no way to access it anymore other than piracy. No way to pay for it legally.
@ronniekregar34823 ай бұрын
Yyyup, that's true
@razrv3lc3 ай бұрын
Most Metroid Prime games rn
@ghnbtrcv86723 ай бұрын
True, hail piracy
@JohnnyTurnerMusic2 ай бұрын
Im in the UK and literally can't find a Legal way to re-watch King of The Hill.
@LiberOpine4 ай бұрын
Did you know that one in 1337 pirates quit piracy just before they find a treasure?
@adamburch12964 ай бұрын
Clever
@arvidsgills11574 ай бұрын
All the rest of the pirates find their treasure at The Pirate Bay
@mikep80804 ай бұрын
Don't forget the King Pirate Yify
@Mateus012344 ай бұрын
I see what you did there
@KuleGuy274 ай бұрын
THE ONE PIECE IS REALLL
@kevinerbs27784 ай бұрын
The fact that internet providers already know what the files are & didn't bother to try & block files should really tell what they're capable of.
@DARKNESSNAO4 ай бұрын
Weren't there a few institutions that published a report, that suggested that the percentage of damages resulting from piracy was between 5% to 7%? However, it appears that the report was disregarded because it did not align with the narrative that piracy was causing losses in the millions, or in some cases, billions of dollars.
@NeilHaskins3 ай бұрын
5% of the American movie and tv industry might amount to billions. Especially if they don't specify billions per year.
@tteqhu5 күн бұрын
It's a very hard topic to approach, there have been some reports that found the general perceived impact to be small. But they're all very speculative, we can't hope to simulate a world without piracy. In the last couple of years I have seen a ton of people justifying piracy with parroting some quotes or statistics poorly. It used to be just an edgy cool thing, or being run by fan sub/dub as alternative in smaller countries. Now it's human right to have free entertainment paid by others. A lot has changed in the last couple of years, so I don't know if I'd pay much attention to a 10 year old report.
@KajuTheRudeMonke4 ай бұрын
"Is Piracy Over?" OH HELL NAW, IT'S GETTING BACK ON THE ROAD, BABY!
@MasterCraft_484 ай бұрын
Yharrr mi m8y! We're going to explore the consequences of companies having high subscription prices
@Illiminator314 ай бұрын
I mean go Pirat, I happy take your money when you download yourself a Malware and need a Security Company to fix your shit :)
@ivoryowl4 ай бұрын
@@Illiminator31 Those in the known which sources to trust and download from. Also, you say that as if there's no legit software out there with their own version of bloatware and malware...
@rkhale024 ай бұрын
@@Illiminator31 pfffft please, anyone with half a brain can reinstall windows in 45 minutes or less without the need for a security company to fix anything. Sincerely, a regular pirate.
@pocketdust24504 ай бұрын
@@Illiminator31 I guess Virtual Machines don't exist.
@waylonjackson17694 ай бұрын
Remember when things like Spotify came out and pretty much killed music piracy? It because it's affordable and convenient. All these companies need to do is make their content affordable and convenient, and when streaming turned back into cable, with all the different services breaking out and spreading the content out everywhere, you see a rise in piracy.
@goliathus88154 ай бұрын
this is actually such a good point, i literally can't remember the last time i pirated a song because i just use youtube music.
@oari11504 ай бұрын
The problem is that you can't just make content affordable. Spotify is famously still not profitable while musicians complain that spotify is paying them jack shit for the number play they get. And the funniest thing is that people still yet complain that $10 dollars a month is just too much. Why pay at all when you can get it for free, right?
@joaoph93914 ай бұрын
When Netflix came, I pretty much stopped pirating. Now it's easier to pirate a movie than to find in which streaming provider it's available. For a good series I usually try to get the streaming to help keep the episode count across devices
@rkhale024 ай бұрын
I don't necessarilly know if that is the answer, because things like Gamepass are super convenient and affordable and allow you to essentially play the games you want when they come out and throw out the old - the difference being that many gamers want to OWN their products and not have them taken from them under stupid circumstances.
@NoOne-ye5jf4 ай бұрын
But music streaming is famously not profitable yet while they continue to pay the artists less and less. People are just so depleted of dopamine no piece of media is good enough to pay what it costs.
@mr_clean5752 ай бұрын
End of service, out of region, always online singleplayer, not available on this console, requires third-party account, drm requires root level access, no mod support, no ownership subscription models that include ads for already paid services, predatory and hidden TOS and cancellation/hidden fees, dozens of separate launchers/streaming services with their own data collection and brokering, splitting of previously centralized content into many different services so dozens of subscriptions and user logins required, getting added to email and marketing lists, data/password leaks for accounts. THAT is what is pushing piracy, not price. Many of the things that are meant to prevent piracy actually encourage it and reduce the quality of the product.
@hugosimoes51194 ай бұрын
Piracy will never end.
@Tall_Order4 ай бұрын
Stopping Piracy has less chance of success than stopping warfare.
@cherrypepsi28154 ай бұрын
I've been saying this for years. Piracy follows the business cycle. When times get rough and users are exploited for profits, piracy rises. Times get good again, companies become better and more friendly (or get overtaken by competition), and piracy dwindles. In other words, "it's the economy, stupid!"
@piotr78053 ай бұрын
That insane perspective of "every pirated copy is a lost sale" needs to be called out harshly. Maybe 10% are, most people who would pirate your product will not buy it anyway.. Many judges will just not understand how extremely overblown the loss estimates are and can be easily manipulated into believing, that piracy damages economy in major scale.
@ElectricityTaster2 ай бұрын
They don't want to ban piracy, they want to ban competitors from having easy access to loads of information to train their AIs. The sites I use to pirate books are bogged down because of this.
@Styrak4 ай бұрын
"really hard time believing 10's of billions of dollars from the economy lost" I dunno man theatre popcorn is pretty expensive.
@StephenMatrese4 ай бұрын
plus soda and candy
@Brixster4 ай бұрын
true, but I don't think the movie studio companies see any of that popcorn revenue. Maybe there's some underground license agreement where they do, but I always thought it was just the actual box office tickets that they got money from, and the overpriced popcorn was the theater's way to make money since most of the ticket money is just going to the studios
@Styrak4 ай бұрын
@@Brixster They were commenting on the article saying money going into the economy. Not to the movie studios.
@Fighter_Blue4 ай бұрын
@@Styrak Then 0 dollars would be lost from piracy.
@Roxor1284 ай бұрын
Only because the theatres are getting screwed by the studios. The deals with the studios leave them with bugger-all from the ticket sales, so they make up the difference with snacks. If you really want to support your local cinema when you go, buy some popcorn.
@havocsdragon4 ай бұрын
I'm brought to Gabe Newell's quote on piracy "Piracy is almost always a service problem.." Personal case: I've pirated software I own because the company made it so inaccessible or bogged down in DRM that it became unusable.
@keit994 ай бұрын
Or it's not available in my Country (or in lower quality only , looking at you STAS)
@alexanderkhan90974 ай бұрын
Right? You can't even steam in 4k or 5.1 from a windows device on Netflix, and I use my home PC as my primary device for viewing content. I've got a 5.1 system calibrated for my room, and an Oled. I've got an RTX card with VSR and HDR upscaling. Why the fuck would I pay for a lesser experience when I can just torrent a Netflix show?
@lck0ut3483 ай бұрын
And in the case of games, a lot of the more reputable repackers will give you better optimized games, mainly because they remove all traces of DRM
@danp65042 ай бұрын
“Consider the impact” brother, I’m doing it FOR the impact
@Veela6663 ай бұрын
The everyday people already got paid during the production of the film or television show. The only people hurt by piracy is the shareholders, the actors getting paid a cut off profits, and once from royalties.
@Voltaic_Fire4 ай бұрын
I do reckon that piracy would massively decline if people could actually buy content, I don't see people wanting to pay that much to rent it.
@IC3P34 ай бұрын
From the people pirating especially movies and music, I hear more often than not how many actual releases they buy. The reason they pirate is a service problem: worse quality, not owning it, way too expensive too subscribe to all these services.
@PseudoNym134 ай бұрын
Lots of them won’t let you buy the shows or movies they want you to rent them or get them bundled with streaming services. Look at how much stuff has been on Netflix once and never to return.
@NeilHaskins3 ай бұрын
I bought 1 Blu Ray. Then I found out you can't get a drive to play blu rays on Linux, because they need a bunch of DRM to prevent piracy. I'm probably never going to buy another blu ray.
@Sherudons4 ай бұрын
Main reason most of us do it is the sheer push from purchase to rent, even now it's being retroactively applied, you bought this item, but we are going to revoke access and delete it from your library, you can't stop us and there is no replacement. I don't buy a licence, I buy a product, and I will keep using that product, so don't sulk when your "profits" are on the open sea.
@jurassicjaws4 ай бұрын
One big reason I keep sailing the seas: Foreign films I enjoy usually don't get a North America release unless it's on Amazon only, and for some reason, every single time, they do one of two things: 1. Use their own subtitles that have quotation marks thrown all over the place, regardless of context, time, place, etc.. 2. They post their own cut of the film. Not the theater release, not the director's cut, it's their own cut of the film, and it's always awful and ruins the flow of the storyline.
@Riyozsu4 ай бұрын
"Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger
@joeshabado14314 ай бұрын
I really don't think piracy is the movie theater's biggest problem today.
@wesjaguar3 ай бұрын
As an avid movie goer, you're 100% right. It's the trash they push to the theater.
@OMG-si3wn3 ай бұрын
@@wesjaguar its like that cuz all of the money and big stories are going towards high budget tv shows
@foxthroat34103 ай бұрын
nah... it's the movies these days tbh 😂
@Mikael-jt1hk3 ай бұрын
@@OMG-si3wnthats just plain wrong 😂
@OMG-si3wn3 ай бұрын
@@Mikael-jt1hk i mean just use ur eyes and see that all the big budgets are going towards tv shows
@Ordolph4 ай бұрын
Not sure a near hour long segment should be called a "clip", but sure 😂
@caseywarren74264 ай бұрын
it was over 4 hrs long in its original format... but yeah a clip should be maybe 10-15 minutes tops.
@HamburglarBunz4 ай бұрын
Maybe rename it to "LMG Segments", it would be more accurate.
@staris37124 ай бұрын
this was really 4 similar topics that could have been clipped individually that make more sense as a single segment.
@luandoduy4164 ай бұрын
It's like Techlonger over Techquickes. Cliplonger
@natelevy10404 ай бұрын
Is it the whole show? If yes, then it's a show. If no, then it's a clip. 😉
@spiritmacardi93003 ай бұрын
I saw the title and was thinking it was about how the only person able to crack Denuvo has vanished.
@blast_processing6577Ай бұрын
Considering most people aren't even _aware_ that most Cuban websites are blocked at the ISP-level in the USA, I think this might be more effective than people here realize.
@andrewpeterson50034 ай бұрын
If purchasing digital content that can be taking away from you isnt theft, then piracy isnt stealing
@rkhale024 ай бұрын
@@mrn234 The way to change that is to operate like it doesnt' make sense. Company takes a movie from you? oh well, find a way to not need that service and go on about life. They will feel it in their profits.
@electrified04 ай бұрын
@@mrn234 Which is exactly why people say "that deal sucks" and pirate it instead when they use the ridiculous deal terms as a justification for screwing over their customers.
@jdarokhajiit91534 ай бұрын
@@mrn234that is true, however it's marketed as buying a product, not a license. The TOS are often predatory and bait and switch is becoming increasingly common.
@jdarokhajiit91534 ай бұрын
@@rkhale02like piracy?
@ermazargw39084 ай бұрын
@@mrn234 it's still theft, because the companies are lying to the consumer by using words like "purchase" and "own" when in reality you're only renting. You shouldn't *have* to read the fine print, just force companies to be honest and punish them for abusing their customers.
@fraud82564 ай бұрын
Pirate bay basically just showed that it’s not possible to shut these things down.
@GiJoe943 ай бұрын
On paper there is no legit pirate bay anymore, but it has tens of mirrors. It hard to beat the Balkans and Russians on piracy
@fraud82563 ай бұрын
@@GiJoe94 pirate bay has basically always been mirrors since they tried to shut it down, it’s the ingenious structure of it, that quite literally anyone could host it if they want without breaking a sweat
@BrownFoxWarrior2 ай бұрын
12:40 "I don't know if I'd buy it," on a conversation regarding piracy. :P 34:39 I appreciate the guy in the white T-Shirt making a thudding motion on the floor.
@jake31112 ай бұрын
Can't even remember the last time I pirated something. It's been so long since buying something meant you actually own it... If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
@NJdaniels964 ай бұрын
7:45 Thanks for bringing this up. Another hole in the "piracy = lost sale" argument is that just because someone downloaded a piece of media doesn't mean that they even used it. I have around 12TB of pirated material and I've probably only even looked at a single digit percentage of it. A lot of my downloads have been entire comic characters' bibliographies or entire gaming console libraries in bulk. I downloaded a GBA collection with 2437 games in them and I think I've only ever booted around 5. And only one of them I've played more than a couple hours.
@flubnub266Ай бұрын
To be fair, downloading full ROM sets has sent me on some really interesting emulation adventures that never would have happened otherwise. But yeah, even then I'd have to play nearly 250 GBA games to even register a single percent, and that's ignoring how much time I actually spend playing the games which is also a relevant point. AAA game developers are known for padding out games so the refund window closes before the player realizes the game is bad. They're afraid you'll find out their game sucks before they can lock in your purchase.
@JudgmentSigma4 ай бұрын
I will die on the hill that says: "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing!"
@mondodimotori4 ай бұрын
You steal the work hours and income of those people working in the creative sector. You don't respect their work. I hope that hill as a nice view, at least.
@Codyslx4 ай бұрын
@@mondodimotori How do you stesl their work hours? They still get paid in full for their rolls. The company is what suffers if the product flops.
@SwerveNation3 ай бұрын
So u think buying isnt owning?@@mondodimotori
@Sean-fj9pn3 ай бұрын
You haven't stolen anything. You made a digital copy of their "intellectual property". If you take a photograph of a loaf of bread or make your own loaf at home that doesn't mean you stole the loaf from the store to do it. Nobody is deprived of their property and nobody even knows other than yourself that the copying even occurred, therefore who is the victim?
@krishm78123 ай бұрын
@@mondodimotori if i press BUY on a steam page of a game, i expect to OWN the game, perpetually, that is my payment. If 5 years down the line, the game/media product is not available because it was a digital license, I will pirate it, because I OWN it.
@cactoidjim14772 ай бұрын
In the United States, you can get your internet shut off. The ISPs do not have any interest in doing this, but the FCC holds the ISPs responsible for your conduct - only insofar as it affects the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).
@squidwardtentacles27362 ай бұрын
many ppl forget that pirating can also lead to buying because without video game rental stores you don't have to ability to try a game out. I've beaten a handful of games on emulators then went to buy physical copy because I knew I liked it enough to buy it.
@ChaseSchleich4 ай бұрын
Those "lost revenue" numbers are such bullshit. Those numbers assume that every pirated film is the loss of a theater ticket or Blu-ray sale. In reality, if a person can't pirate the film, they just won't watch it at all or they'll see it when it appears on a streaming service eventually. There's a few movies coming out that I really want to see. I didn't have the time or money to see them in a theater so I'm going to download them when they appear on one of the torrent sites I use. If they appeared on a streaming site before the torrent is made available, then I'd watch it that way, but either way, I'm not paying for a ticket or for a digital/physical copy. They were never going to get that sale and I highly doubt I'm alone on this.
@ronniekregar34823 ай бұрын
Exactly!!!! I've always said the same thing. The people that buy fake Louis Vuitton bags are never buying a real one.
@patrickday42063 ай бұрын
Those lost revenue numbers are simply for tax write offs
@iochisono974 ай бұрын
how does piracy steal from theaters? pirated movies are usually ripped from bluerays; don't think anybody's watching movies recorded with a camera during the projection. they are stealing from themselves when a movie is available on platforms a week after theatrical release
@synthiandrakon4 ай бұрын
idk how it happens but like ive seen high quality rips of movies online that aren't even out in cinemas yet
@williampearce57574 ай бұрын
I have seen that people are doing just that. Using a shitty phone camera to record live footage of movies as they are played in theatres. Hilarious thing though, is this is usually in Chinese theatres.
@FunctionallyLiteratePerson4 ай бұрын
@@williampearce5757this used to happen in the US, but worse because it was shitty camcorders
@thelakeman25384 ай бұрын
Release prints do get pirated along the supply chain, whether it be from the theatre or somewhere before reaching the theatre, that's how high quality leaks can happen on or before release. Idk how common this is for American movies though, but not unheard of in developing countries like India.
@iochisono974 ай бұрын
@@synthiandrakon i think that's cause they've been released in some other country
@amalkrishnar11542 ай бұрын
Linus is a Chatgpt now. Linus tries to be as comprehensive as ever but nowadays i feel like he is overdoing it.
@skippyzk3 ай бұрын
33:38 First time watching this channel Really enjoying the conversation
@NikolaiCherepanov4 ай бұрын
I love being a 🏴☠ of the high seas, when I got a job I started paying for everything from software I used to TV Shows, and then when subscription models go rolled out for everything and still included ads while jacking up the prices, I said screw that ill go back to being a 🏴☠. The media industry can collapse for all I care 🤷♂
@GregoryShtevensh2 ай бұрын
Yep
@andrewscaccetti64644 ай бұрын
"100s of thousands of jobs" I would argue there's hundreds of thousands of jobs BECAUSE of piracy. What of all these organizations that scour the internet and slap DMCA requests and stuff for IP holders?
@DistortedChrist4 ай бұрын
High paying jobs too. I can assure you a DMCA lawyer makes way more money on avg than a theatre worker.
@nullbeyondo4 ай бұрын
Also VPN companies lol.
@bushysowavvey2 ай бұрын
One good example of paying vs not paying is NFL Sunday Ticket. I remember a few years ago (probably before the best sports streaming site was out) I tried to exclusively get buy on those for weekly games and cast to my TV. Needless to say, it was a miserable experience. Horrible picture quality, non stop overly ads, crashing streams, constant refreshing, annoying chat, broken audio, lagging or stuttering. I already pay for KZfaq TV… just shell out the few hundred and have a seamless experience. 🙄 Way more worth it than not spending when I want to sit on the couch and watch games all day lol
@joebob2311productions3 ай бұрын
The complex solution is to pay for a service for a limited time only, build a recording PC, record all the shows/movies that you want from the service, then cancel it when you have your own copies from the service.
@alcedob.58504 ай бұрын
Lobbyists should be held responsible for their words. If banning pirate sites won't provide the promised benefit, and it won't, someone's got to compensate the waste of budget
@brandonnn954 ай бұрын
The problem is that ticket prices in theaters have gone through the roof and is absolutely unattainable for the normal human. if I was a teenager and wanted to take a girl on a date to the movies I could do it for 20 bucks all in … now you can’t even buy a popcorn and a drink for 20 bucks .. teenagers have to ask their parents for it at minimum $100 just to go to the movies so why not just pirate the movie at home on a 4K TV screen and make your own popcorn for a dollar and order a pizza .. they have to make movie theaters a place that people want to go not a place that feels like a casino where you’re just going to lose all your money
@What-ez6im2 ай бұрын
Fake, I can go to the movies for 10 bucks per person if you don't buy snacks and go during the weekday. Drinks are almost the same price as the movie itself
@brandonnn952 ай бұрын
@@What-ez6im22 people disagree with you
@Tyranatronus2 ай бұрын
Or you just don't want to go to the theater? There's plenty of things like AMC A-List or Regal Unlimited that make going to see films significantly cheaper + regular screen tickets are still around $8-10 given you don't live in a place like LA or NYC
@justincoombs904828 күн бұрын
Without piracy, they would have a LOT less people interested in being customers. I absolutely wouldn't be now.
@BrianSheppard3 ай бұрын
We don't want to pirate. There are bunch of middle men making it to expensive and trying to get their cut for doing nothing.
@janemba424 ай бұрын
They tried this in Australia and it's still in effect. At worst you'll get a letter from your ISP telling you that you're naughty for torrenting, and will get cut off if you continue
@thanksyoutubefortakingmyhandle4 ай бұрын
They've been doing this in the USA for years, I got one of those letters too about 12 years ago
@janemba424 ай бұрын
@@thanksyoutubefortakingmyhandle This was a while ago for me too like 10 years ago.
@cornheadahh4 ай бұрын
@@thanksyoutubefortakingmyhandle same, ever since that day I use a VPN + Seedbox
@Hectik174 ай бұрын
im in au ive been pirating since 99, still going hard too with tv shows movies games music ect and nothing ever happens torrents, p2p ect and i dont use a vpn
@tihruytssgjjvsavcxtbvhj34294 ай бұрын
Mullvad VPN. It's the best and fastest and most anonymous VPN bar NONE.
@cyrilthefish4 ай бұрын
Honestly i think piracy is going to make a comeback. A huge dent was made in piracy numbers due to easily accesable and cheap paid offerings (i started buying games on steam and getting paid online streaming services as it was far less hassle for me to do so) But now we're getting a reversal: (especially for video streaming) where prices are getting out of hand alongside reductions in service quality... Piracy is looking the better option again. I think we're right on the cusp of seeing a huge piracy resurgence here, all because of corporate greed...
@askeladden4504 ай бұрын
Tbh, if you knew where to look, piracy was always the best option, even during the hayday of netflix. Now, the difference is so ridiculuos that you have to think why some people pay to get a worse service than piracy.
@TheSpoonyCroy4 ай бұрын
Not sure for that. I can see it for VOD services but I know Video game piracy is pretty rocky right now because even though Denuvo fucking sucks (for paying consumers) and I hate it, it actually works. Look at things like crackwatch and you will see many modern titles that use the most recent verisons of denuvo number of cracked titles is pretty small compared to the old days. I think at best 30% have been cracked and this leaves many titles that are several years old with no cracks in sight for instance Total War Warhammer 3 still hasn't been cracked and it has been 2 years now. The only person who cracked Denuvo titles at the cost of $500 per title has basically been MIA since September. Like PC Video game piracy at the moment is basically dead in the water, you may have better luck if you played emulated cracked console games but yeah if you are a PC gamer which I think most of this audience is, you are sort of SOL.
@RicardoSantos-oz3uj4 ай бұрын
It already made a come back as most modern games are shit when compared with older games.
@Roxor1284 ай бұрын
@@TheSpoonyCroy When it comes to PC games, about the only ones I do pirate are old games that aren't on Steam. Hell, it's had me un-pirate games I pirated back in the day. Pirated Doom when I was on DOS, but bought it on Steam years later.
@mondodimotori4 ай бұрын
Piracy never died with streaming services. In the beginning there was less offer and less choice of platform and content, meaning you didn't have options for lots of digital content, except piracy. Now we have several platforms with combined huge libraries for every taste. We have it much better now. But morons on the internet will prefer a mnopoly...
@S71xx2 ай бұрын
There are three reasons people pirate. 1. Can't afford it. 2. Was never going to buy it. 3. Shitty and or abusive service.
@Adroit19114 ай бұрын
Fly that crimson jolly roger!!! Yo ho ho, no quarters given!!!
@defenastrator4 ай бұрын
The entire film industry is only $95.45 Billion in 2022. NA was 34.5% of that amounting to $32.93 Billion. You would have to project a 60% increase in sales if piracy were eliminated to justify the figure "tens of billions of dollars". Yeah right.
@fantasypvp4 ай бұрын
That figure doesn't seem accurate lol
@ValkisCalmor4 ай бұрын
Even if the numbers weren't BS it's hilarious to hear these types fret about money being withheld from the economy while they hoard Scrooge McDuck piles in offshore accounts.
@fefgam4 ай бұрын
Vpn has great use against tyrannical political regimes
@Shadowshael8 күн бұрын
Companies: "This piracy is costing us hundreds of thousands of jobs" Also Companies: "We are announcing record profits, also we are laying off half our workforce"
@Disthron2 ай бұрын
Anyone remember how Fifa 2014, or maybe it was 2015, had the first version of Denuvo? It went uncracked for like 3 to 4 months and people were wondering after month 2 if it was ever going to get cracked? EA never made any big announcements about how much more it sold... because it didn't. It sold basically the same as every other version of Fifa.
@drinkingguy31684 ай бұрын
No it isn't. Pirate will a way through this, one way or another.
@the_undead4 ай бұрын
I don't think this is the end of piracy, but given what Nintendo has been doing to emulators recently, I think this is the beginning of piracy becoming Beyond something the average person will be able to do without completely destroying their computer
@MasterCraft_484 ай бұрын
Come SpongeBob! We're going to be pirates!
@InfernosReaper4 ай бұрын
@@the_undead Nintendo didn't come out on top because it was an emulator. They came out on top because the devs got too greedy and profited off enabling piracy by locking a software update for a game that hadn't even been released yet behind a paywall. Had they not done *that* then Nintendo would have had *no* legal standing to shut them down.
@Kevin-oj2uo4 ай бұрын
@@the_undeadYes piracy is not easy and its becoming more complex so that will keep people out of it.
@archduke00004 ай бұрын
@@Kevin-oj2uo it's incredibly easy lmao
@109Rage4 ай бұрын
Piracy does not have zero damage-but the amount of damage it does cost is in my opinion so negligible as to be a non-issue. The amount of people who "would have bought it if there was no piracy option" is tiny compared to the number of people who would simply not obtain a copy without piracy as an option.
@oari11504 ай бұрын
I would disagree. Sure, if piracy was not an option that existed, people wouldn't buy 'that' specific piece of media, but their individual expenditure in the entertainment sector would raise by orders of magnitude. Simply because people are addicted to entertainment. There are societal pressures to watch newest show, the newest movie. Piracy is big, so is the lost revenue in entertainment.
@Destilight4 ай бұрын
@@oari1150 yeah no. People would just share games/movies by hanging out or buying in group like it was done before piracy was widly available.
@StephenMatrese4 ай бұрын
@@Destilight or watch more content KZfaq
@karlhendrikse4 ай бұрын
Citation needed. I wonder if someone could devise some kind of experiment that could test this once and for all. I feel like I'm pretty much in the clear, personally. I don't think I've pirated anything that I would have paid for if piracy was not an option. But I don't think that's true for everyone.
@spaceycakey19874 ай бұрын
piracy acts like advertisment it helps you find stuff you would never buy if you really like somthing you want a proper copy of it
@Wow555793 ай бұрын
How many pirate jobs does piracy create though 🏴☠️
@BenjiJames4 ай бұрын
Australian ISP's have been doing this for years already when a bill was passed a while back.
@Necropheliac4 ай бұрын
I’ve been using IRC bots to download everything since 2003. This method of acquiring media flies completely under the radar, and if you set up your client correctly it’s also encrypted. The way it works is that you join an irc chat channel and send a message to a bot with the packet you want. The bot makes a direct connection to your PC via IP address and sends you the file that you want. Peer to peer downloads are virtually invisible to law enforcement. They have no way of knowing what you’re downloading even if they subpoena the traffic records from your ISP because it’s encrypted via SSL.
@krim74 ай бұрын
That sounds like Napster 😂
@sneekeruk4 ай бұрын
Ive not used irc for 15ish years, I remember xdcc bots offering packets and used them a lot, then I remember as bittorrent came around and even before tpb etc I was getting the .torrent files from an irc bot.
@1Bagoly14 ай бұрын
>This method of acquiring media flies completely under the radar Won't be for long, if you tell everyone here. Although using irc is a big issue for most.
@ghoulbby4 ай бұрын
Seems excessive I'd rather just use my $3 windscribe vpn and pull through that. Audio for me usually comes from cracked Spotify downloading or batch downloads w/ youtube-dl on yt playlists.
@Embattled52112 ай бұрын
For those who want to do this with music: Soulseek
@WeirdTippy4 ай бұрын
Mentioning SOPA brought back the memories of Aaron Swartz. You know it's been just over a decade since he passed?
@zeroangel22953 ай бұрын
In Australia our government has ordered all isp's to block any website that hosts pirate software but all you have to do is change your dns from your isp's to anything else and I use Google's dns so I never even notice it till I got a new laptop I I could not watch my anime till I changed the dns
@sneak5673 ай бұрын
Big reason for piracy is some content is lost due to companies folding etc, and there no longer being any way to get a paid copy. there used to be sites that were known for likely having old niche, hard to get media
@alumlovescake4 ай бұрын
Piracy does not "steal" jobs. There is too much money in the industry for piracy to hurt it. If money is not reaching the people that lies on the people on the top of the chain not us
@ebhaenger82464 ай бұрын
No, piracy does hurt some business in the industry to some degree, there is no denying that.(I can imagine some indie devs etc. feel it) But by far not as much, as some/most want to make it to be in general. 100 pirate DL's ain't 100 sails they missed out.
@xxlepusxx4 ай бұрын
@@ebhaenger8246 Adding to the point many sites that sell codes for games are piracy and seen as worse by many indie devs
@TheRizzzlyBear19 күн бұрын
This, this is a good conversation.
@dany_fgАй бұрын
this is why where I live they made it illegal to *distribute* , not to own. if I have copyrighted material locally, what could they do? take my computer? I can just buy another and re-download everything.
@GregOughton4 ай бұрын
The reality is that there is finite consumer dollars available for movie tickets, finite consumer dollars available for streaming subs. If you make legal access easy and offer a good value then you'll get those dollars.
@jdigi784 ай бұрын
I love how they've framed it as piracy is stealing jobs now. Pirated content is not money stolen from the economy.
@salzkastenАй бұрын
Regional pricing is fucked up. As a german I pay 5x more than a russian even if i adjust it to earning power.
@BalamTryba15 күн бұрын
this is a good conversation, first lmg anything I've watched in yrs
@John.S924 ай бұрын
Imagine you're in a mall, imagine that your movement around the mall, each second spent at this store and that store and so on, now imagine that you get a notice/letter from the mall saying "You spent x minutes at this store, please don't visit that store". Wouldn't that feel messed up that your movement where tracked and that the mall/ISP was monitoring your activity for visiting "illicit" websites?
@_gnit4 ай бұрын
Getting Rid of Physical Media is their downfall. If their movie 💣 in theatres, they would usually make up their profit from DVD sales. This was also a huge incentive for creators to take risks by being more creative & not having to stay in the "safe" popular series lane & only spitting out sequels & remakes.
@h3lladvocate3 ай бұрын
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
@JamesBrown0594 ай бұрын
Luke really holds the show and arguably LTT back with his absolute unwillingness to tolerate any risk.
@RicardoSantos-oz3uj4 ай бұрын
Let's call it what it is: Unauthorized copying. Is not stealing as you are not preventing the owner from using their property. As is not piracy because there is no one stopping a ship to steal their cargo. Is Unauthorized copying. You copied something that someone else didn't want you to copy. Not stealing and not piracy. Since you didn't enter into a contract to copy it, is not even a breach of contract. The fact that they called it stealing and piracy removed any moral high ground that they ever believed they had. As knowingly calling something for what is not is mislabeling and thereof FRAUD! Want your software to be bought instead of copied? Offer a better product than the unauthorized copy version.
@gorkskoal93154 ай бұрын
I've been saying this for years!.
@mondodimotori4 ай бұрын
You steal the work that people put into that content. If you don't pay for that content, they'll have to find other ways to make a living.
@rexsceleratorum16324 ай бұрын
"Pirate" actually comes from "pirate radios" operating from ships out in international waters I believe, but yeah, "stealing" is a bit much.
@gorkskoal93154 ай бұрын
@@rexsceleratorum1632 that came later. In short pirate, comes from pirateering, basically running small business on a ship, I think it's a pidgeon of cajun french. Priveering radio for saftey and ocasionally radio (for land) wasn't around untill the 1800s (a little past caribean pirates). lol either way, perfect, unauthorized copies isn't exactly theft or stopping anything. Your not holding a BFG to someones head and demanding they not sell photoshop or whatever else. No one told a C-suite to enshitify adobe with renting (subscricribing to) photoshop. no one putting a gun to a exec suite in nintendo to tell them to stop selling games.
@SirHeartbreakertheFirst3 ай бұрын
@@mondodimotori depends on the product. But in the gaming/film industry specifically? Nine times out of ten, you're not taking from the developer/director's pockets, you're taking from the greedy studio execs who don't care about you or need your money.