Unsure if a moral-boosting image or just OP overlaying a pirate-bdsm mistress image with moral images and text.

Well, people may feel like they don’t have a right to things. But my problem with that kind of a stance is, why do we allow and enable these kinds of companies who feel it is their right to deny, remove and refuse to distribute legal alternatives? It seems like we feel it is our right to at least enjoy something we’d like to have.

And this moreso applies to people who actually have paid for things. Like for example, online games. One of these days, sometime or another, some big MMORPG is going to be pulled offline for good. And you, a faithful player, has put lots of time, effort and even money into the game for years which would make you a loyalist to it. But the game is pulled offline now and the company will not ever make an offline mode. They just cart out the same old song and dance of “Thank you for your years of support, blah de blah, we’re going to go now and uh, thanks for your money too, goodbye” and that’ll be that.

I mean, wouldn’t that be a little off-setting to you? Sure there’s some gullible people out there who happily piss away a lot of things and in some strange unironic way, accept this kind of practice. But there’s lots of other people who want to keep going on for however long and they too could very well have been paying customers. Shouldn’t it be their right to continue enjoying that game or should they just walk away disgruntled and jaded because they now see their investments as an entire waste?

The whole idea of whoever and whatever has a right to what is entirely case-by-case and subjective. I don’t feel I have a right to everything in a store I work at, I have to pay for something to have it and I’m not going to act like I have a right like I do have them otherwise. What I feel I have a right to, is to go and grab copies of things I know very well that no company is going to lift a finger in ever re-purposing for everyone to enjoy once again because they operate on some stubborn arbitrary system with themselves.

And if people want to take into account about the idea of respecting creators and everything? Dude, a lot of disrespect goes around to creators from these companies that helped create. It’s very well-documented at this point. I now am starting to see pirating as just a way to gain a little sense of redemption for those disrespected creators who have to tolerate their bosses that have absolutely no clue or care in the way in how these things operate.

Freedom to Breed. Easy for me, because I don’t plan on having kids ever and I don’t really think it is a good idea to be having kids if you’re unable to sustain them much less, yourself.

If a better world means we have to limit the amount of people we bring in here until everything chills the fuck out, so be it. There is absolutely no reason or benefit to bring in 3 - 12 kids at a given.

So why do you pirate then?

The main reasons people pirate are:

• Affordability concerns
• Corporate Greed
• Region-Locked/Deliberate Unavailability (Not releasing content in other countries, exclusivity .etc)
• Refusal to meet Demand and Supply
• It’s Free, so I’m going to get it
• Dismantled Consumer Rights

Don’t get me wrong, I would have happily bought a copy if it was available. But because of 1, 3, 4 and 5 alone completely justifies pirating.

This is how they want things designed. They want us to just consume, consume and consume. Then just dump away whatever we previously enjoyed because they really believe that we have short-term memories or that we won’t ever revisit what we once enjoyed. They want you to think that there is a limit to everything when the obvious truth of the matter when it comes to digitally available items is that there is no such thing.

You can keep a file going and going by transferring, it’ll last as long as you intend it to last up until you lose interest or die.

Hell, they’ve gone after the Internet Archive, which has been compared to today as the modern burning of Alexandria. They just don’t want anything preserved, regardless of how old it is and how long it has been since the creator or anyone involved has died. Nostalgia is just simply another marketing strategy and that has long been put to practice for a good long while now.

Limited physical goods is one thing, we can’t promise about how long we’ll have the resources for to continue making physical things, I get that.

But digital mediums and trying to limit ‘stock’ is such a laughable concept to me.

I hate having to store hop. This happens all of the time to me with Dollar Tree. I live near like 6 dollar tree stores. I’ll be looking for, say, work gloves. So I go to the one next to me, shit, they don’t have it, well now I gotta decide how far I want to go to the next one. I go to the second closest, fuck, they have gloves but not the kind I’m used to. Fuck, gotta go to the third one but now that’s a little further away because I had to drive a bit away from the other two. Same applies to other stores.

No

Uh, no? You don’t know how Open-Source works. Floorp can technically be self-funded because it gets grants and donations to sustain its development. You act like everything relies on Google’s funding when that’s not entirely true.

No. We’ll just use Firefox forks. Seriously, why do people always think there’s either Chrome or Firefox in this world? Are you too scared of difference and alternatives?

Yes it is. That’s reality for you. If Free Speech was applicable outside the government - how come you can be banned for what you say on social media, huh?

Sounds like someone doesn’t know the constitution and comes off as a sovereign citizen.

When can we get a retail simulator game where we can screw with customers? I don’t want more of these games where we serve customers.

Internally, I’m screaming that this should’ve been a new Quake.

They’re too obsessed with Doom Guy.

He doesn’t even know or care about how traditional tariffs are supposed to work. What makes him think he knows what the fuck is non-tariff? Old fucking moron.

Haven’t they already been crying and screaming for decades? What is it that they want to be heard over that they haven’t cried and screamed about before?

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