Communists want to abolish private property.
Capitalists want to abolish personal property.
We are not the same.
God this feels like such a no-brainer
Just gotta keep dumbing it down I guess
The personal property / private property distinction really confuses some people for some reason. Granted, there are also a lot of people who are just assholes and act like clarifying the usage of the terms is just you trying to be "evasive" (I've gotten that response).
Yeah it’s kinda silly but I get it
I’ve tried to explain it to some people and their takeaways are incredible in a baffling way
I think it's really simple to just say private capital vs. personal property. Gets across the most important issue that we mean by private property and it doesn't come with so much rhetorical baggage.
I want people to own nothing because everything should be held in common for the public good
You want people to own nothing so that you can charge rent forever
We are not the same. Now face the wall
We want to collectively own and manage the means of production to our benefit as a whole. Personal property is just that, and it's yours. I like the vibe of this comment, anyhow. Lol
This is the best argument for piracy.
I'd even say you can get to a pretty strong argument that it's morally justifiable.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Well you see they're a giant corporation so they have rights and you don't!
The best argument is that I don't give a shit whether it's morally justifiable or not, i'll never get in trouble with the law for it, i like getting free stuff and the only victims are corporations and fuck them
Oh fully agree nobody should have to justify stealing from corporations it's just hilarious that even the biggest bootlicking civility fetishist would have a hard time scolding somebody for this when the corporations are doing something worse by any objective observation.
this is why I still buy discs
Uh... I would simply pirate the content wholesale.
Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can't find it anywhere)
Look up Soulseek if you wish to get high quality music files, best P2P network for those
Need to do this, been fiending for music files after they shut down whatever subreddit that was popular for music sharing
Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.
I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs
do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon't they have 4k digital movies?
They might be 4k, but they don't have the quality of Blu ray. They get compressed more to be easier to stream. Blu ray is usually the best quality the public gets to see (unless tapes or something leaks).
https://tidal.com/sound-quality
That's just one place to get HQ music. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it's part of the solution.
I doubt they'd ever do something like that for movies and tv. Blu-Ray quality can't really be streamed and a download would be 20-50 GB which they probably just don't want to offer or else they would have by now.
All the streaming services constantly adjust quality based on your connection, with no option to turn that off and let it buffer instead. I've had HBO Max go from looking fine to utter dogshit in the middle of a show. I pirated it after that. I was paying for the service (well, someone else was and I was using it) but still got a better experience from pirating a BDRip.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary
Hey some of them include those as extras!
or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music
okay true :sadness:
You’ll never know the feeling of the Shrek dvd menu looping for over 10 hours straight because you’re too depressed to get off the couch and turn the tv off.
Caillou did not age well, why is he still wearing pyjamas?
Why can’t Caillou wear them? Only kids get to have fun now? Swallowing my head
Daily reminder that staring at a blank wall while your internal monologue slowly descends into gibbering madness remains free!*
*Blank wall sold separately
Also it better be a privately owned wall or else a cops gonna harass you for loitering.
Cant be just standing around in public not spending money
Digital piracy is 100% always the morally correct thing to do.
More people should learn computer literacy and how to pirate. The majority mostly buy old media over pirating because they don't have the skills to pirate. Bootlegs are huge in my country because of this.
Skills to pirate? I guess there is a certain level of know-how to avoid getting viruses
I've seen people struggle to do the most basic functions with their computer. They're absolutely skills to them.
Yeah true. I know lots of zoomers that don't even know how to use basic Windows/Mac features. Quite sad really, but I guess that's thanks to mobile being so ubiquitous (even the advanced features there get ignored).
It’s also easy to scare computer illiterates into being to afraid to pirate
"We sincerely thank you for your continued support"
I know it's not the main thing to take issue with. But the insincerity of those 'sincere thanks' pisses me off to no end. Like they magically found a way to claim we support them by saying so. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, at least be upfront about fucking me over.
I always fume with anger when some website captions their cookie banner "We care about your privacy". No you fucking don't and the dialog where you have to manually uncheck 10+ individual cookie types and also their fucking"legitimate interest" (no, there isn't any legitimate interest about my data).
And also when some company whose only purpose is to make money sends me e-mails beginning with "Hello, ". We aren't friends, we are business partners. If I'll write you about let's say a RMA, I won't address you "David" either. Keep it professional, will ya, ya smeee-heeee.
You see, there's just no possible way to show you these five paragraphs of plain text without seventeen tracking cookies attached
It's some "X rules to be an effective Y" bullshit. "Don't say 'sorry for taking your time' say 'thank you for your patience'"
I'm interested to see where the courts land on the enforcibility of the terms and conditions stipulated at time of purchase. Should be interesting. For example, the purchase of the media is no doubt framed as a type of ownership given that you "buy" the item but no doubt it stipulated that your usage of purchased content is contingent upon a vast array of terms and conditions agreed to at time of purchase.
I still remember when I read the terms and conditions for my ps3 and discovered that I'm only renting it rather than own it; I don't own emulators either but at least those are free
I still remember when I read the terms and conditions for my ps3 and discovered that I'm only renting it rather than own it
holy shit
Your device> HDMI cable> £10 HDCP bypass box >HDMI cable> your recording/capture device. You've paid for it, you might as well make a copy. You will have to watch it through though to copy.
I fucking hope there's a lawsuit. They're probably leaning on some understanding that by agreeing to their ToS, you agree that you don't own any of your content. But i feel like that also betrays the common person's understanding of how digital content works, or at least how it should work. Basically anything you cant download DRM-free and back up yourself is subject to disappear at any time.
if only. no sane lawyer will take on sony, especially when the TOS explicitly says you don't own your content.
