AHHHHHH WHY DID I PIRATE MOVIES AHHHHHHH

because you touch yourself at night

Downloading a mediocre quality copy (yify) is not pirating.

Two reasons, both of which are defensible.
1) Advertising. The old rule was, if you had to put up with advertising, you got the product for free. And entertainment-industry types simply won't shut up about their politics. Since I have to listen to that, I get their product for free. If they don't like it, they can shut up.
2) Regulatory capture. Copyright used to be for 17 years. Now it's fucking the life of the author plus 70 years?! Fuck Disney, fuck their legal heft, and fuck all the politicians that went along with it. Since copyright is now one-sided and utterly indefensible, I choose not to respect it.
Plus, I buy plenty of things on DVD. If I download something, and like it, I buy it, so as to help the creators. But I'm not paying for streaming, and I haven't had broadcast/cable/satellite TV in 20 years.
Does that answer your question anon?

>>212906715
Based copyright law knower

>>212906715
Yeah. I hate the copyright sabotage that Disney lobbied (bribed) for.

>>212906161 (OP)
You can rent movies from your public library for free.
If it's already free, you're doing everyone a service by saving the library and the taxpayer some overhead costs.
Sharing is caring.

>>212906161 (OP)
Jesus was a food pirate.

>>212906280
Are they still around? Haven't heard that name in years.

>>212906744
And that's without even getting into the inane invisible-sky-daddy bullshit.

>>212906715
good post anon, thank you

>>212906161 (OP)
>AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH WHY DID I HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT MINIVAN’S DVD PLAYER THAT WAS PLAYING SHREK FOR 5 SECONDS AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

>>212907056
true. a classic anti-ip argument at this point. keep em coming

Imagine copying a fucking file and sending it to someone being illegal like pulling a gun on a storeowner and taking his shit. Nuke pissrael

>>212907247
This is why I refuse to call it piracy. Piracy is violent theft. This is file sharing.
Stop letting them use language against us. Do not fall for their tricks.

>>212907076
yfiy in hell

>>212907132
I can't tell if this is meta humor where you're pretending not to understand the purpose of OP to act out the fedora tipping midwit who makes it cringe, or if you're just fucking stupid

>>212906161 (OP)
kek

>>212907462
well i liked the guy's post and even though i'm religious i respect atheists like him who try to be ethical.

>>212907056
If Jesus = God = Holy Spirit then he's just making copies of his own property since God made everything in existence and therefore owns everything in existence.

>>212907645
He made copies of Bread which was a human invention.

>>212907645
no. that's just bad theology. jesus did pull a ctrl c ctrl v with the fishes and loaves.

a better argument along the lines of yours would be the way living organisms reproduce, dna and all that. living beings reproduce by making copies of themselves (roughly speaking). relevant here is how corporations are literally patenting gene sequences (GMO foods) and molecules (patented meds).

not to get too philosophical here. just saying.

>ummm piracy isn't theft it's not a lost sale it's just making a copy
So if you couldn't pirate would you buy a copy of the media?
>Lol no I'd just shoplift it or steal it I'm not spending money on that shit
At the end of the day, pirates just want shit for free. They don't care about the morality of it. When everyone pirates, no new media is made because there's no more market for it. Whether or not it's a "copy" is meaningless when the net effect is people getting stuff for free. They will always want it for free, but content creators can't just pirate money for new contracts or IP acquisition....

I've been torrenting movies my whole life and just got an isp letter for the first time today. over beavis and butthead. not even a dvd release one either, it was the kingturd vhs recording one. why would would some anti-piracy jew company even bother contacting my isp over that?

>>212908902
For me it's about convenience. I want to download the shit I like onto a hard drive so I can watch it instantly whenever I want without having to hunt through streaming services, watch commercials, or deal with their horrible video playback controls.
For example, I have amazon prime, but I still download all the amazon prime shows I want to watch because I hate dealing with their streaming service.
If there was a Steam equivalent for movies I would use that. Where I physically download the video files and can do whatever I want with them.
As Gaben said, piracy is almost entirely a service problem.

>>212906161 (OP)
>>212907166
>hell
>real
Read a science book, dumb zoomer.

>>212909325
Exactly this. But also, they don't get to arbitrarily remove them, or alter them. I paid for them, they're mine. Steam isn't immune to that now either.

>>212907645
Do you own something just because you made it?

>You pirated Games, my son. Be blessed by the God of Thieves, Mercury, and go forth to steal more games, in my Divine Name
Thank you Mercury!

>>212907056
This comment just changed my whole world view.

>>212910144
It's like if the guy who invented plastic tried to take ownership of every plastic product.

>>212910518
yep.

>>212910144
making something =/= thinking you have a right to a monopoly over every copy someone else makes of it

>>212907056
he was a street magician

>>212906161 (OP)

coalgirls tho