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Do you find piracy more fun than consuming the pirated content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by redminer@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I feel like lately I’ve been doing more piracy than actually using the content I’ve been pirating. Curating a library has been so enjoyable lately, I’m not the only one right?

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[-] deathmetal 14 points 1 year ago

Sort of. I like archiving and passing on stuff that is useful and likely to be forgotten. Laws and morals just get in the way. Hail Satan, praise Prometheus, and fuck the police!

[-] davysnavy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yes I just see it as a necessary evil. It's also nice to know if corporations ever decide to wipe all their content off the Internet or something I always have my trusty hard drives packed with all my favorite media.

[-] deathmetal 7 points 1 year ago

I never understood this until I saw link rot in action. Great projects just disappeared when people forgot to renew domain names or hosting contracts. Others went away when big services like Geocities vanished. Wikipedia and Google censorship took out a lot of others.

[-] minimar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You only underestimate the importance of archival and preservation once.

[-] deathmetal 1 points 1 year ago

Regret is a powerful teacher!

[-] herald@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by "Wikipedia and Google censorship"? I'm actually super curious, are there examples of stuff being censored and removed from wikipedia for example? Like projects or games?

[-] deathmetal 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, frequently. They also like to keep stuff off of Wikipedia with arbitrary "notability" rules. There used to be a great community of Wikipedia critics, but I've lost all the links.