here we got it after minute 2:25 u have the biblical...moral anwser: if U HAVE the money u dont steal anymore. if u dont, u steal !!! this vader really know he needs salvation from jesus by making a 15min video with poor in philosophy called *moral relativational* *facts" why steahling is *fine* look im not innocent but this reasons are just bonkers.
I think government should be stepping in and making these things illegal or making them rename it to reflect what it is - indefinite rent with some random switch off time in the future. The reason government does nothing is that a) we aren't big corporations and b) politicians are not into gaming so don't know.
@@jhovainechen7577I don't fear a man who plays FIFA, I fear a man who buys EVERY NEW FIFA WHEN IT COMES OUT. I don't understand why these psychos like to buy the same game multiple times.
Steam convinced me that piracy is 100% a service problem where if consumers are being forced to look up shady sites to view content then you've failed as a provider
what pisses me off about movie websites/ apps is that they always tell you "oh our website is so much better than piracy" yet i can illegally watch a movie for free with no ads and on the legal websites you have to pay like 20 a month just for LESS ads. and half the movies are STILL unavailable
Literally! I have Hulu because of my mom's phone plan and when I tried to watch a show the app crashed five times. I gave up and started pirating the show! Not only that, but the lack of adds let's me watch more faster, so I finished an entire season when I would've gotten through five episodes at most before rage quitting
@@Guest56489 The thing is ads/ more added content makes everything slower, frustating, and more cacha (which is more storage usage). And in Piracy website, there's ads but not INSIDE the content (probably only images, we can close it though). Just like how ads make your internet slower, disrupt resolutions in yt video, and create more cacha. It's basically a LEGAL BLOATWARE
When i was a kid, I decided to stop pirating software that made my life easier. After spending 2 hours on the phone with customer support trying to validate my license I stopped paying.
In Switzerland, downloading a movie is always legal, doesn't matter the source. Only uploading is forbidden. My country is on the black list of Hollywood. Also, we have the highest prices for all streaming channels. I used to have Netflix, but after they made password sharing illegal and a few months later increased the fee again, I had enough. Now nobody gets my money and I still watch content...legal.
bro try using accounts that r sold with different regions. will cost u less. these accounts r usually sold by people on social media but needs to come from a trusted group(some can be scams, do a little research on YT if u need). I don't know about ur country but that's how I used to buy my favorite games on steam for less than half the price until the proper regional price in my country came after steam started using usd only. plus I once bought skins for a game for half the price using this method
I don't promote piracy but recently a legend said something and it will stay with me forever. "Culture should not exists only to those who can afford it."
There are some exceptions there: Would you really spend your money on adobe to LEND their software for a ridiculously high price and them owning your created content?
Disney "if you watch our stuff and it isn't on Disney+, it's piracy and it's evil!!!" Also Disney "yeah we ended your wife... But you signed up for Disney+ so you can't take us to court over it! lolololol"
@GreetingsFromBlackwoodFarm just google disney restaurant arbitration. Couple went to a restaurant and the wife was given "allergen free" food and died because it had nuts and dairy, and Disney's lawyers tried to say since the husband signed up for a disney+ trial 4 years prior, he signed an arbitration clause so the wrongful death lawsuit would go to arbitration lol
I don't think that's a good way to look at it. If they are a terrible company that consistently scams their customers and sometimes everyone else, sure. Just cuz they're big doesn't mean they're bad, a small company can be more evil, and some big companies are really cool
What are on about bro ps3 was hacked and then when they took strict actions people found a different way to downgrade the hardware to the hackable firmware and pirating games. Ps 4 is also hacked and can be played with pirated games. Playstation games on PC well all games are available for piracy GOW, spiderman remastered and miles morales every single game that they released which was exclusive for the ps but then released on pc were pirated within a week.
I hated Ubisoft. Wanted to Play homm with my bro and it kept kicking us out. Or sync went bad. Unlike the days of hotseat or local lan .... We never had such issues in the past. Greedy companies.
Remember, Piracy is only beaten by convenience, the moment the "right way" becomes inconvenient, piracy prevails, and right now with several streaming services, each one only having 1 maybe 2 decent shows, piracy is looking mighty convenient right now
Also the Netflix anti password sharing stuff so if I try to log into Netflix, I'm blocked* out because my mother watched it at work. This is stupid and meant to increase profits but it actually makes pirating it a lot more convenient. I'd rather watch pirated Stranger Things than go through that pain in the neck process of getting the email code to watch it when I could have Stranger Things 4: Illegal Edition sitting on the computer readily available. It's meant to be a profit driven move and this is actually a really good move... ...If they want to lose profits.
I’m only 3 minutes in, but the quote that was just shown ten seconds ago is spot-on. The UA-camr/streamer “Pirate Software” makes and sells a game, his company had a situation where something like 80+% of their players in Brazil were pirating the game, so they did some reading on Brazil, found out they’re generally super poor, so they lowered the price of the game from something like $20 down to $2.50 in Brazil, and now Brazilians make up a huge portion of their playerbase and piracy is virtually gone, under something like 4% of downloads in the country. I can’t count how many people I’ve heard say “oh my gosh, it’s such a great deal, I only pay $7 a month!” Nobody’s pirating shit when they can get an awesome product/service at a reasonable price.
Worse, is, when, they remove those, stores i live in turkey abd, lots, of people used ths, turjish steam, cause it was, chraper instead, of forcing you to have a turkish bank card they turned the currency to dollar now, games are 5000x more expensive
Companies lie, steal and cheat??!! WHAT??!! THEY ARE OUR MORAL OVERLORDS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE SENT TO THE RE-EDUCATION CAMP FOR SUCH MORAL TRANSGRESSIONS AS QUESTIONING YOUR SUPERIORS
There is noo way companies lie - look at their hardworking CEOs... they work hard to earn 100000 people's salary each month... such honest hard working people lie? No way.,,
Thats my exact point. When i was young and broke, i pirated games(hypothetically). I didnt have the money to buy games. I would never have bought the game bcoz i didnt have the dough. But piracy in my case turned out positive. I pirated the harvest moon games for gba and now they got me as a loyal customer when i can afford them and buy the story of seasons games which i would have never had it not been for me pirating it when i was younger coz i wouldnt never experienced it. Same with minecraft, terraria, every cs game. Theres 1000s of dollars that wouldve never been spent on games had i not pirated
No I will not pay $120 for your "full game with extra DLC", nor will I pay $70 for half of the game with less features. Give me the full ass game at a reasonable price and then we'll talk, anyway, back to the seas.
I think he meant that its whether he wants to pay companies to just have the convenience of using it only and not owning it like digital video games and movies@@dr.coomerphd4937
There's actually one funny thing about piracy in Russia. It was VERY popular thing in 2000s and early 2010s, but later more and more people started actually buying games - but 2022 hit, and people are not able to buy almost everything from outside Russia (Steam, Netflix, Spotify, all Apple and Google services, a lot of things). And you might think, Russians started pirating a lot - but Russians had a different solution. Some of them just made Kazakhstan or Turkey cards, and still pay for the content. Except PSN - all Russian accounts was locked completely out from PSN, so we have to use discs. But still - in Russia there are a lot of services for paying for purchases on Steam, подписок Spotify, Discord Nitro, and others, so piracy has grown in popularity - but not much. So yea - big companies just made Russians either pirate their content, or buy it in a different, more difficult way. And another thing about piracy - old games. "Need For Speed Most Wanted" for example - there is no way to get it legally, I would pay for it, if I could just buy the 2005 game! (EA, please, you have so much good old games, you can get so much money out of it, you like money, we know it)
As someone who was always short on money, piracy was a godsend to me. The companies lost exactly nothing on me because i would not have been able to buy the games anyway. I think piracy is morally right as long as you cannot afford to buy it yourself. People should not be locked out of culture because they dont have money.
When I was a kid I was able to get my hands on a copy of AC Blackflag (I thought it was real funny at the time) and I enjoyed it so much I not only 100%ed the game, despite how crappy Ubisoft is years later when I actually had a job I bought the actual game on steam because I liked it that much.
“I steal and am good person for stealing haw haw” that’s my impression of your comment. Eat some burnt toast u shady no good 420 gucci gang ridin dirty all dei w my hoemies keep punk rawk trendy shop at hot topic thrash gnar 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@PointlessEndeavor-h1x”I’m judgmental and naive. I call people names because I’m too ignorant and lazy to engage in conversation with people I don’t agree with.” That’s the impression I get from your comment. There’s a difference between claiming you’re a good person and stating you’re not a bad person. Your comment comes off way more self righteous and ‘holier than thou’. Enjoy being miserable and angry, little boy.
You do know that the majority of EU / EEA countries have countermeasures against this kind of TOS and EULA against them, no? I'm saying that cause you have an Italian flag, do a research on your laws to know if and how you can fight back.
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ might be so but take for example the crew, the game is still launchable but the servers are shut down even though its single player and because its coded that way you loose access to it
Alexander the Great once captured an infamous pirate captain. When brought before the leader for judgement, the pirate told Alexander, "Because I use only my boat, I am called a pirate. Because you use your army and navy, you are called an emperor."
Ive had my bike stolen which took months to recovery from, and basically destroyed my life in the short term. The police had zero interest in helping. But I see people getting ten year sentence for pirating football matches, while SA offenders are getting light sentences. The justice is all messed up.
@@kommissar.murphy a bicycle or a motorbike?? if you got your motorbike stolen you should a license plate and they could go on trying to find it that way probably
@@cynicalmemester1694 That's somewhat true. Just remember that in the future when you will look for a house/apartment or a new car or a phone. Those are also luxury products you are not entitled to. Even more luxury than music, games or books. At the same time I would argue that music, games or books shouldn't be classified as luxury goods at all. But as a culture heritage products and should be at least made as easily accessible as possible, like what libraries did for the past century, and without 100+ pages of EULA that demands you to waiver all your rights and share all of your personal data just to watch one movie or play one game
Companies like Ubisoft and EA often completely make some games inaccessible when they grow out of favor, wich makes piracy the only way to access them. Let’s all say it again. If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
Stealing from corpos and goverment is cool mind you government has PUBLIC funds in theory for development of country but many times its people taking it to live luxurious lifestyles stealing from it is like whatever at this point with all this crap
Meanwhile there is a ton of assholes who pirate cheap indie games.... you all are just pathetic. I dont not pay for movies either but at least im not trying to justify it like a loser
Except you’re not. You’re stealing from the hard workers on the ground floor struggling to make ends meet. Multi billionaire CEO’s are gonna make their money regardless if you steal or something flops, they will always get a golden parachute. So have fun being a dirt bag and actively worsening the lives of people who make your entertainment by your actions
just like the creator of ultrakill said "culture shouldn't only exist for those who can afford it" this is great and he also said if you can't pay for the game spread it via word of mouth this hella proves how Inde game devs care for the community rather then greedy triple A companies who want you to spend all your money on them by any means necessary. also great video you got yourself a sub today man 💪👍
The worst part is that those huge triple A companies were not like that before. They have given us some absolute gems like Far Cry 3 and 4, all of the Halo games until Halo Reach, some amazing Call of Duties, and more. Games that have made history... It all went downhill with the invention of DLC and microtransactions...
I used to pirate games i could not afford as a kid, but now i pirate old movies and standup shows so i wont have to pay a monthly subscription to some crappy service im only gonna use once.
Law surely is bizzare, I can deny supporting piracy as my official stand then beat around the bush giving instructions on how to pirate and why piracy is a good thing, and if someone calls it out i can just say "I was speaking from the perspective of a pirate, yknow i dont support piracy right haha why would you think that"
$10 million to fail to stop "piracy" to save $1 million in losses. $10 million to improve your actual product or to gain $100 million in growth. "Let's stop piracy."
I'm not a legal expert but I am going to take a guess that the disclaimer does not suddenly protect the creator from that as the title contradicts that statement. Of course, I really don't believe any authority is going to take any action on this video.
When Tluncher was getting really big , the developers of Minecraft didn't tell ppl to not use it , they told them to pirate the game and give it a try and if they enjoyed it , they should buy the legit thing They understood the benefits of ppl pirating and how it spread the good name of their game
The game literally did not have a launcher before and most certainly did not require an online-drm to play the game offline. They had the choice but they decided to do it any way, get out of here with that cracked launcher bs. They were hostile to piracy the moment they decided to make it so that I needed to sign into my Mojang account to play their jar files. Minecraft was already insanely popular at the time and this was just before Microsoft bought them. Now I don't own the game anymore because all the Mojang accounts have been deleted.
@@Dean.....I migrated mine to Microsoft because although I'm 24 now. I still remember when my now deceased mom bought it for me and still play on occasion for nostalgia
@@imeverywhereandnowhere56 you both on point. I have yet to find the point! But I also couldn't hit a dart board if I was 2 inches away from it. Metaphorically speaking 😂😂😂
At the end of the day if BUYING isnt OWNING, then PIRACY isnt STEALING :) Also preservations so in my eyes piracy is justified aslong as the pirated content is gonna stop existing otherwise
The way I see it is this: Copyright exists as one side of a coin. Public domain is the other. For Copyright to work towards it's intended purpose (encouraging innovation) then public domain is completely required. WIthout it copyright is broken and actually serves contrary to it's purpose and decreases innovation. It's a deal which once benefitted both parties, but now has been changed after the fact to only benefit one. Thus I reject it wholesale as an immorality and injustice.
If it's a movie then i'm nuetral since streamng services are stupid, but i'd rather by a DVD. Pirating games is stupid because if you can afford a computer, just by the game. I was literally thinking that teh second he mentioned them and Music Piracy is flatout morally wrong and shouldn't be accepted. BUY AN MP.3 THERE LIKE FIVE DOLLARS.
You don’t need to justify your actions. Piracy is illegal and morally wrong for obvious reasons, doesn’t matter how crap the product might be. At the point you just wouldn’t buy it. Restoring to piracy is an extra step that removes your innocence in the matter
@@proggz39 Reasons so obvious that you cannot explain them even a little bit. At this point you should just stop talking. Being unable to defend your viewpoint like this removes any indication of intelligence on your part in this matter. You are correct about one thing, however. I do not need to justify my actions.
It's not about being greedy and wanting to save money, it's about not wanting those greedy companies to take your money Like you don't want to reward them for being greedy, increasing prices, lying in teasers, taking away good features Edit: i never said that I pirated myself, I just said that this is my take on why one would be justified to steal. In many Situation, piracy is wrong, like say you pirate a small indie game the developer has put years of hard work into, but if for example a service you enjoyed was ruined by for example, removing password sharing or ads being added or having to subscribe to like 10 different services to be able to watch most shows, and then said shows turn out to be trash due to budget cuts and underpaid actors and you also know that millions of other people are paying for these services and losing you as a customer would not have any great impact on the income of the service providers, then pirating these shows/ services or whatever would be ok in my eyes. I myself don't pirate, as said, I mostly just look for free alternatives, like gimp instead of photoshop.
I'm happy to give them money, just not all my money. I was happy paying for Netflix when it has a lot, now there are dozens of streaming services slicing everything up and wanting to gouge me. I'm happy to pay for one service, like Spotify, but not multiple. That is why I don't have a TV
Im perfectly fine with spending money for good games, but if i get an unfinished buggy AAA title for 70€ or more, and the company wants me to spend even more for cosmetics, they don’t deserve my money.
If it wasn't for piracy, entire generations would've been lost to the void of negligence. One time, not too long ago, Nintendo released Super Mario All-Stars 3-D for a LIMITED TIME. A digital license to play for a limited time. If that is not enough proof of how digusting and petty companies can be with their digital content, then I don't know what to tell you.
I feel like it shouldn't be called piracy since it's not aim to really "steal" anything since digital goods aren't your property either, but rather is more like being Robbin Hood, because they give back to the people who can't afford or aren't unsure about buying a 60 dollar game
Unfortunately… we’re still waiting for new pirates who can crack denuvo, also most games want to get rid of offline mode, which would make piracy near impossible. Apparently there’s some EU law being made about games being playable offline?
I sincerely cannot understand how people claim that piracy is hurting the industry and artists creativity, and yet are completely averse to the emergent idea of harnessing copyright in the manner that can optimally reward creators, encourage creativity, and simultaneously encouraging fairness and support to their customers. It just seems to me that all that outrage was a facade, and copyright was never intended to protect creators and encourage creativity.
There is always a discussion about how much is piracy costing the companies, but EVERY statistic about it only counts "copies downloaded * price of product = loss due to piracy". But what about people who downloaded pirated version and after that became fans and bought merchandise or the product? etc. It's not in any corporation interest to calculate real value, it's in their interest to calculate the highest value possible
Also dont forget about how some games from EA or Ubisoft are a massive failiure either due to DRM, or game breaking bugs. Yet, they blame it on piracy. There has never been a game where piracy hurts it
@@bumblebeegamerreal I once had to install a crack for my original Diablo II special edition because it required the CD to be spinning in my CD drive all the time, and the drive was really noisy. Having to crack my legal game to play decently was a hard blow to me at that time.
If you buy a chrome book and put extra 3rd party ram in it ,for example. And a month after purchase the screen stops you send it to googles repair centres, they have the right to keep and chromebook without your consent and without paying you back. If buying isn't ownership, pirating isnt stealing
You modified their product and now they get to steal your money because you stepped on one of their eggshells. Didn't you learn from school that people in positions of powers are usually jerks, narcissists and cheats? Yeah, now get back to working to buy another Chromebook. (Sarcasm, of course)
Piracy is the best thing to ever happen to the internet. Old game preservation, advertising, forcing companies to make convenient services, affordalbe games and other things for poor countries and in those where currency rates and wrongly exchanged so you pay more than people in the us while making way less (it's how it is in poland on steam fx) I pirate stuff but also pay for stuff like UA-cam premium and Xbox game pass as those are actually worth for me and convenient even tho i could just crack almost every game i played on XGP
My first GTA was pirated, but after then i have bought more legit licenses of different games from rockstars, plus hundreds of dollars in add-ons. So yeah, its literally free marketing
The usage of AI is similar to piracy tho. Corporations and schools and colleges don’t want you using it, but they end up benefitting from it themselves by installing copilot on their computers and telling their employees or teachers how to use it, saving them money in the long run because they don’t have to pay the employees or teachers as much. Imo that’s similar to greedy corporations shunning piracy yet going out of their way to save as much money as possible.
Because AI shows the hypocrisy of companies. It's perfectly fine for them to steal your data and make a profit off of it but you steal their content and now you are an irredeemable criminal.
@@marcinmcula99 Intellectual Property law was created as a way for corporations to use the government's threats of violence to manufacture monopolies ∴ adhering to it is morally reprehensible and piracy is a moral obligation
The foo fighters guy saying that he doesn't care, he would prefer people to rock out in Thailand when they turn up is because although the record companies were telling us that piracy hurts the artists we love that wasnt anywhere near the truth. Artists mostly get paid from their live shows which is why the artist couldn't care less about piracy as he knows the more people that listen to his music the more people will turn up to the shows. The record label takes the majority of money from album sales, most artists will actually end up broke even after selling millions of copies.
Some people pirate stuff like video games because 80$ for us is a good chunk of their salary. A person salting fries at a mcdonald's in the US is earning as much, or even more than a doctor in Poland.
@@julam936They refuse to implement regional pricing on their "tRiPlE a" games. You'll find that the money you spend on 5 indie games is just barely enough to pay for MWIII.
And yet for some reasons some tracks might disappear from streaming. Maybe come back, maybe not. Recent example, The chronic and Doggystyle going out from Spotify (they are back now). I had to pirate it meanwhile, because i don't have a CD drive in my house.
that's because the music industry had to learn their lesson the hard way, with sites like LimeWire becoming absolutely massive in the 90's and early 00's. They basically were *forced* to provide music to people in the most convenient way imaginable just to be able to compete with music piracy giants. The games industry never experienced this, in part because anti-piracy software can be baked right into the product, and then it takes a while for people to crack it.
@@JohnMarston-lo5qkEXACTLY, THATS WHAT I SAID ON ANOTHER COMMENT! People who pirate are legitamitely the scum of the earth. MP3s are like 3-5 dollars if you cant afford that then you cant afford speakers to play it on cheapskate.
I don't get why companies get mad when people who they're not even selling a product to, pirates the product. Same thing when people pirate old products that aren't being sold anymore. Sorry Nintendo, but most people can't afford buying an NES and a Super Mario Bros cartridge from a reseller for a few thousand dollars.
the main reason for piracy is all these companies think every country in the world has the same purchasing power and luxary as USA. They literally have the "superhero movie syndrome" i.e. USA is the world
Another reason why piracy is justified is because not everyone is lucky to be born in countries with high purchase power parity like here in the US or in Europe. I have a friend from a third world country and he says that while here a game or a movie costs few dollars, there costs way more, and that paired with low incomes makes buying original content impossible for the vast majority.
@@proggz39 stupid comparison were talking about digital content where it based on a set purchase price with effectively infinite copies that are issued at a non local economy adjusted rate, compared to something like houses which work on a supply demand system and are priced based on that areas local economy
Based on my own experience throughout more than 15 years I would say that your statement and Gaben's together make the complete truth. A: I mostly used pirated stuff that I wouldn't buy anyway so me using that could only benefit the owner/developer since I could probably end up paying them in the future. B: As I got older and started to make my own money I started to actually pay for services, games, movies etc. as it was more convenient than going through sometimes complicated cracking process, slow download times or possible malware and so on but I still do pirate some stuff from time to time because if I pay for a movie or a streaming service I don't want 480p quality or a picture on only half of the screen when pirated version is 1080-2160p fullscreen. So in the end when companies cry about pirated software it's just pathetic since it's their own fault when the people who could pay them just won't do it while the people who wouldn't pay anyway are out of the question either way...
i never thought of piracy as theft, more like a- let me test this before i give you a lot of my money - let me listen to this until i can afford the record - let me watch this in low cam recorded resolution so it fits the content im watching in quality ^^ Like Dave growl said, they just want to squeese every little penny even if they dont have to. at least in music a lot of bands say, as long as you like the music- go ahead we have enough money
This is also why I like video game demos. I get a taste of the product to decide if it is worth my money. I don’t want to pay for a software if I’m not going to end up using it. Also a lot of services are blocked behind predatory subscriptions and paywalls which explains why so many people would rather take a different route to get their content. In the case of video games, at least for Nintendo games, those who pirate the most are people who care about the games and want to preserve them. People get their games like that when they aren’t easily and conveniently available and when prices are absurd for games that aren’t sold officially anymore. It’s often the only way to play rare games, exclusive ones and lost media without having to go full detective mode or paying more than its original full price. Piracy exists because of poor service.
Once upon a time, the developer of ultrakill said: "culture shouldn't exist just for those who can afford it, if you cant support the game via buying it, support it via word of mouth" a lot of people pirate not because they dont want to buy, but because they cant, a lot of people like me and possibly you didn't have visas and so we pirated, not because we wanted to but because we cant buy it, it isn't the whole picture but a big portion of it
I feel like 50% of piracy is this. Growing up (from age 6 to [undefined]) i used to pirate games because I just had no money or no way to buy them in my country, and i was extremely scared to ask my mom for 4 usd to buy a game on steam. So as soon as I got money and a way to pay for steam games without a visa in my country, i bought basically all ganes that i pirated and loved, because they deserved the money (and because i wouldn't have to download it again on another PC and could just use the *simple* and *useful* services of steam).
I'm a big fan- the one piece of advice I can give you is to pad a tiny bit more of a gap between your sentences that you've cut together. Give each sentence a fraction of a second more to breathe, and it will flow more naturally- you'll want to give it enough time as if you were taking a breath between sentences, even if you've cut the breath out. Otherwise, your sentences tend to run together and feel a bit overwhelming. Everything else is pretty great though!
The studio selling the game only benefits from me pirating the game, i wouldn't buy it anyway, but i build community and by talking to my peers i create actual buyer
I can't believe in 10~15 years time companies have succesfully brainwashed people to think piracy is bad. 2008 you were weird if you wired money online for anything, limewire, piratebay, hell it's even the time Pirate Parties in politics got founded because it was an actual movement. Nowadays you're weird if you don't pay 5+ monthly subscriptions and piracy is frowned upon. If games are becoming live service and dependent on support without CDs anymore, you wouldn't own it. No ownership = No theft.
Game renting is barely even a thing anymore. You buy the game you get the game. Movies are fair game since like you said you can't really own one wothout going to a record store for a movie you not even like.
If I can have a great anime website where I can watch my anime, read what people thoughts about the anime, the site is easy to use and can work with Mal or stuff like that , I will pay for it but there isn't a anime website like that, it only exists in piracy so yea
Acting like trading currency for goods hasn’t been normalized for 8,000 years is crazy and really shows your lack of understanding. Buying a CD never gave you the right to own what was on it, only access. Much like buying a digital copy doesn’t give you the right to own the software, but to access it. You guys are really showing an elementary understanding of this
@@proggz39 Back in 2005, when you bought a CD, you owned that physical disc and had the practical ability to access the content as long as you had the hardware. No one was arguing that buying a CD gave you rights to the intellectual property, but it did give you unlimited access to that content, whether or not the IP holder wanted you to have it. That’s ownership in a practical sense: the content was yours to access regardless of server availability, corporate whims, or forced obsolescence. Today, with the push towards digital media and live services, that kind of ownership is disappearing. You're no longer buying a product, you're buying access, access that can be revoked, altered, or denied at any time. That’s not just a change in medium; it’s a fundamental shift in consumer rights and culture. To pretend that nothing significant has changed and to conflate the physical ownership of a product with merely buying a license for access is not just naive, it's a misrepresentation that downplays how much control corporations now exert over what we used to own. So don't act like this is just business as usual, it's a calculated move to strip away the ownership rights that were once taken for granted.
Piracy is a compliment that you made such good content that I'm going off to such lengths to access content that I'm clicking any shady site even if it costs me my computer
Most of the actually good professors who care about their students will likely have a PDF of the textbook somewhere. I had a few like that, and damn do they come in clutch.
Well not really. There is also a thing called "renting". You dont buy a game, you rent access to a game with one time payment for as long as a company gives you access to it.
For who piracy: "you are completely MALICIOUS, you are a criminous, the worst person on earth, how dare you steal the work of other person". For them: "Fair Use"
Piracy has afforded me a 120TB NAS Server, a pimped out PC, an 8k 86 inch tv and bowers and Wilkins Theatre system. I started out poor. Now I'm not, because piracy.
I grew up in a similar situation: a pc that could run games, but no money. That that we are all older, we... well, they don't play that much anymore, but I still play a lot. Games that I played when I was a kid, the games that I loved the most, I ended up buying them. Or even games in early access, like satisfactory and beamng drive, now that I have the money, I can finally buy them and support them through the early access phase, after "trying" them (for legal reasons, those were demos of the game).
“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” - Gabe Newell
My Comment on Adobe was Pinned lol
hahah
Edit it to Pirate adobe or go to hell or something like that
Which video is it?
Any sports game those companies should be ashamed
here we got it after minute 2:25 u have the biblical...moral anwser: if U HAVE the money u dont steal anymore. if u dont, u steal !!! this vader really know he needs salvation from jesus by making a 15min video with poor in philosophy called *moral relativational* *facts" why steahling is *fine* look im not innocent but this reasons are just bonkers.
As a lot of people have always said "if buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing"
for sony, the quote is "if purchasing isn't purchasing (page 37 of TOS) and buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing
Half the time depending on what you buying it not even wroth buying
I think government should be stepping in and making these things illegal or making them rename it to reflect what it is - indefinite rent with some random switch off time in the future.
The reason government does nothing is that a) we aren't big corporations and b) politicians are not into gaming so don't know.
How hard is to understand the concept of lending/renting and paying for service? This is just dumb people being dumb and self-righteous.
@@miloradowicz The problem is either nothing says you are only leasing the game or its hidden in the depths of the tos
Piracy isn't an enemy. It's a competitor.
Messiah
@@resofwhat am i fighting fooooor?!
@@wyattbarnett3877god damn did not expect a megaman x4 reference here
For real man ngl.
If I would have 5 things to say it would be:
Faded Than A Ho.Faded Than A Ho.Faded Than A Ho.Faded Than A Ho.Faded Than A Ho.
Those words are synonymous with each other though. They mean the same thing
Shoutout to WinRar, for having the greatest business model ever.
Fuck them. 7zip all the way
Winrar is the GOAT
@@izack0128 it is. It truly is.
> Invent problem
> 'Sell' solution
> Never make anyone pay for it
> Refuse to elaborate further
@@altalena9139 Invent?
Paying for FIFA is the real crime here
Swear. Who tf plays fifa? That game is pure ass
@@jhovainechen7577 it was good back in the days
theres no cracks for fifa in the first place tho
@@jhovainechen7577I don't fear a man who plays FIFA, I fear a man who buys EVERY NEW FIFA WHEN IT COMES OUT. I don't understand why these psychos like to buy the same game multiple times.
Mexicans
Steam convinced me that piracy is 100% a service problem where if consumers are being forced to look up shady sites to view content then you've failed as a provider
People are still pirating steam game though…
@@CaptainRx-ss3rt because of economic reasons
Sooo, it isn't a 100% service problem
@@fickleborn5314 nothing is 100%, but you can't deny Steam's business model is more effective than what the movie and music industry tried
@fickleborn5314 90% service 10% cheapness/laziness
what pisses me off about movie websites/ apps is that they always tell you "oh our website is so much better than piracy" yet i can illegally watch a movie for free with no ads and on the legal websites you have to pay like 20 a month just for LESS ads. and half the movies are STILL unavailable
And most of content you can watch have a quality level of steaming garbage
Yup, piracy is pretty cool
Stremio for example is infinitely better than Netflix or Disney plus. It literally has everything, up to 4k with no ads.
Literally! I have Hulu because of my mom's phone plan and when I tried to watch a show the app crashed five times. I gave up and started pirating the show! Not only that, but the lack of adds let's me watch more faster, so I finished an entire season when I would've gotten through five episodes at most before rage quitting
@@Guest56489
The thing is ads/ more added content makes everything slower, frustating, and more cacha (which is more storage usage).
And in Piracy website, there's ads but not INSIDE the content (probably only images, we can close it though).
Just like how ads make your internet slower, disrupt resolutions in yt video, and create more cacha. It's basically a LEGAL BLOATWARE
When i was a kid, I decided to stop pirating software that made my life easier. After spending 2 hours on the phone with customer support trying to validate my license I stopped paying.
hi
Broke
good
@@ZenoSamaOmniKing hey
@@EnergeticSpark63 hi
In Switzerland, downloading a movie is always legal, doesn't matter the source. Only uploading is forbidden. My country is on the black list of Hollywood. Also, we have the highest prices for all streaming channels. I used to have Netflix, but after they made password sharing illegal and a few months later increased the fee again, I had enough. Now nobody gets my money and I still watch content...legal.
bro try using accounts that r sold with different regions. will cost u less. these accounts r usually sold by people on social media but needs to come from a trusted group(some can be scams, do a little research on YT if u need). I don't know about ur country but that's how I used to buy my favorite games on steam for less than half the price until the proper regional price in my country came after steam started using usd only. plus I once bought skins for a game for half the price using this method
Guess who’s gonna “legally” change their residence to Switzerland?
Switzerland is also realy good if war breaks out they dont fight they avoid
Nord vpn, translocate geolocater to switzerland, permanently
@@John_the_Paula criminal
I don't promote piracy but recently a legend said something and it will stay with me forever.
"Culture should not exists only to those who can afford it."
There are some exceptions there: Would you really spend your money on adobe to LEND their software for a ridiculously high price and them owning your created content?
That’s why the public domain exists.
@@thedukeofdukersyes. After 100 years We MIGHT get to use some character For free....
Hakita W
Exactly 💯
Disney "if you watch our stuff and it isn't on Disney+, it's piracy and it's evil!!!"
Also Disney "yeah we ended your wife... But you signed up for Disney+ so you can't take us to court over it! lolololol"
So absurd right , will surely make a video about it
fr
I don't understand. Did they end someone's wife?
@@GreetingsFromBlackwoodFarmthey purposefully gave her food she was alergic to or something
@GreetingsFromBlackwoodFarm just google disney restaurant arbitration. Couple went to a restaurant and the wife was given "allergen free" food and died because it had nuts and dairy, and Disney's lawyers tried to say since the husband signed up for a disney+ trial 4 years prior, he signed an arbitration clause so the wrongful death lawsuit would go to arbitration lol
If it affects a multi millionaire company, do it
fr, they dont give a fuck about us (sure neither do the pirates but at least they dont force you to pay an expensive monthly subscription)
Tru dat.
Nah, depends.
I have been pirating since 2007 so pretty much since I developed the cognitive ability to use a computer as a child and I will continue to do it 🗿🗿🗿
I don't think that's a good way to look at it. If they are a terrible company that consistently scams their customers and sometimes everyone else, sure. Just cuz they're big doesn't mean they're bad, a small company can be more evil, and some big companies are really cool
14:18 you're wrong here. Sony figured out a way to stop piracy. Look at concord, not a single pirate.
It's cause the product technically has no value for people, meaning no reason to buy it or share it via torrents.
Firewalk single handedly solved piracy. True pioneers of the gaming industry
😂😂😂
Edit: not many people are understanding your joke 💀
@@Ren_Zekta You don't get sarcasm, do you?
What are on about bro ps3 was hacked and then when they took strict actions people found a different way to downgrade the hardware to the hackable firmware and pirating games. Ps 4 is also hacked and can be played with pirated games. Playstation games on PC well all games are available for piracy GOW, spiderman remastered and miles morales every single game that they released which was exclusive for the ps but then released on pc were pirated within a week.
Well, ubisoft showed us that buying games the legal way is not owning.
And now, if thats the case, then piracy is not stealing
It is not even worth it to pirate Ubisoft games.
Man ubisoft flops hard, its a shell of its former self over the years
@@pellizcacristalesif it’s 2017 or later, never
I hated Ubisoft. Wanted to Play homm with my bro and it kept kicking us out. Or sync went bad.
Unlike the days of hotseat or local lan ....
We never had such issues in the past.
Greedy companies.
@@pellizcacristales nah
Remember, Piracy is only beaten by convenience, the moment the "right way" becomes inconvenient, piracy prevails, and right now with several streaming services, each one only having 1 maybe 2 decent shows, piracy is looking mighty convenient right now
that's it, subscriptions and prepay are the new evil. no reason to make something with quality when they have your money.
Also the Netflix anti password sharing stuff so if I try to log into Netflix, I'm blocked* out because my mother watched it at work. This is stupid and meant to increase profits but it actually makes pirating it a lot more convenient. I'd rather watch pirated Stranger Things than go through that pain in the neck process of getting the email code to watch it when I could have Stranger Things 4: Illegal Edition sitting on the computer readily available.
It's meant to be a profit driven move and this is actually a really good move...
...If they want to lose profits.
@@Antbrat4.0 Not being willing to spend money on stupid shit doesn't make you broke genius.
@@selo5124 if you complain about prices. You are broke simple
@@Antbrat4.0dumb
I’m only 3 minutes in, but the quote that was just shown ten seconds ago is spot-on.
The UA-camr/streamer “Pirate Software” makes and sells a game, his company had a situation where something like 80+% of their players in Brazil were pirating the game, so they did some reading on Brazil, found out they’re generally super poor, so they lowered the price of the game from something like $20 down to $2.50 in Brazil, and now Brazilians make up a huge portion of their playerbase and piracy is virtually gone, under something like 4% of downloads in the country.
I can’t count how many people I’ve heard say “oh my gosh, it’s such a great deal, I only pay $7 a month!”
Nobody’s pirating shit when they can get an awesome product/service at a reasonable price.
Worse, is, when, they remove those, stores i live in turkey abd, lots, of people used ths, turjish steam, cause it was, chraper instead, of forcing you to have a turkish bank card they turned the currency to dollar now, games are 5000x more expensive
What?! Companies lie? No way
Companies lie, steal and cheat??!! WHAT??!! THEY ARE OUR MORAL OVERLORDS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE SENT TO THE RE-EDUCATION CAMP FOR SUCH MORAL TRANSGRESSIONS AS QUESTIONING YOUR SUPERIORS
There is noo way companies lie - look at their hardworking CEOs... they work hard to earn 100000 people's salary each month... such honest hard working people lie? No way.,,
Bro, you've opened my eyes to the truth
@@shroomer3867🤣🤣🤣🤣
OH MY GOSH! THIS IS A REVELATION THAT WE NEED TO SPREAD! THIS CHANGES *EVERYTHING* !
Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it
Thats my exact point. When i was young and broke, i pirated games(hypothetically). I didnt have the money to buy games. I would never have bought the game bcoz i didnt have the dough. But piracy in my case turned out positive. I pirated the harvest moon games for gba and now they got me as a loyal customer when i can afford them and buy the story of seasons games which i would have never had it not been for me pirating it when i was younger coz i wouldnt never experienced it. Same with minecraft, terraria, every cs game. Theres 1000s of dollars that wouldve never been spent on games had i not pirated
Thanks, Hakita
Hakita W
MAH BOY HAKITA COMING IN CLUTCH INSIDE OF ME.
Now why isn't this the top comment?
No I will not pay $120 for your "full game with extra DLC", nor will I pay $70 for half of the game with less features. Give me the full ass game at a reasonable price and then we'll talk, anyway, back to the seas.
If you buyed Disney Plus you can't sue If your wife died at their park
Had they pirated the whole Disney filmography...
Also don't go to Disney park too
Broke
I still don't think that gross negligence can be arbitrated like that
>:)
Bought*
The question isn't "do I have 10, 15, 20,... bucks for this movie", the question is "do I wanna give any money to this company".
Just look at Disney+ idk about you, but I'm not giving those pricks my money and I'm most definitely not going to agree to their tos
It's also a question of "do I wont to give money for the inconvenience and not owning thing I'm paying for?"
@@L1vv4nEnglish?
I think he meant that its whether he wants to pay companies to just have the convenience of using it only and not owning it like digital video games and movies@@dr.coomerphd4937
@@dr.coomerphd4937”Do I want to pay for a temporary license that can be revoked at any time?”
There's actually one funny thing about piracy in Russia.
It was VERY popular thing in 2000s and early 2010s, but later more and more people started actually buying games - but 2022 hit, and people are not able to buy almost everything from outside Russia (Steam, Netflix, Spotify, all Apple and Google services, a lot of things). And you might think, Russians started pirating a lot - but Russians had a different solution. Some of them just made Kazakhstan or Turkey cards, and still pay for the content. Except PSN - all Russian accounts was locked completely out from PSN, so we have to use discs. But still - in Russia there are a lot of services for paying for purchases on Steam, подписок Spotify, Discord Nitro, and others, so piracy has grown in popularity - but not much.
So yea - big companies just made Russians either pirate their content, or buy it in a different, more difficult way.
And another thing about piracy - old games. "Need For Speed Most Wanted" for example - there is no way to get it legally, I would pay for it, if I could just buy the 2005 game! (EA, please, you have so much good old games, you can get so much money out of it, you like money, we know it)
As someone who was always short on money, piracy was a godsend to me. The companies lost exactly nothing on me because i would not have been able to buy the games anyway. I think piracy is morally right as long as you cannot afford to buy it yourself. People should not be locked out of culture because they dont have money.
When I was a kid I was able to get my hands on a copy of AC Blackflag (I thought it was real funny at the time) and I enjoyed it so much I not only 100%ed the game, despite how crappy Ubisoft is years later when I actually had a job I bought the actual game on steam because I liked it that much.
“I steal and am good person for stealing haw haw” that’s my impression of your comment. Eat some burnt toast u shady no good 420 gucci gang ridin dirty all dei w my hoemies keep punk rawk trendy shop at hot topic thrash gnar 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Beautiful comment.
@@PointlessEndeavor-h1x”I’m judgmental and naive. I call people names because I’m too ignorant and lazy to engage in conversation with people I don’t agree with.” That’s the impression I get from your comment. There’s a difference between claiming you’re a good person and stating you’re not a bad person. Your comment comes off way more self righteous and ‘holier than thou’. Enjoy being miserable and angry, little boy.
@@PointlessEndeavor-h1x I was hoping for some genuine critique, instead got brainrot. UA-cam comments are often disappointing.
Not to mention paying for services like games and not actually owning them which is worse than piracy
You do know that the majority of EU / EEA countries have countermeasures against this kind of TOS and EULA against them, no?
I'm saying that cause you have an Italian flag, do a research on your laws to know if and how you can fight back.
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ might be so but take for example the crew, the game is still launchable but the servers are shut down even though its single player and because its coded that way you loose access to it
@ItalianPan I take that you signed the Stop Killing Games initiative?
A wise man once said "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing"
@@regularundead yup
Alexander the Great once captured an infamous pirate captain. When brought before the leader for judgement, the pirate told Alexander, "Because I use only my boat, I am called a pirate. Because you use your army and navy, you are called an emperor."
What a great quote
@@doge8606 The story goes that Alexander thought so also and let the pirate go.
@@carsonm7292 Don't think any of these corporations would let us go 🥶
Ive had my bike stolen which took months to recovery from, and basically destroyed my life in the short term.
The police had zero interest in helping.
But I see people getting ten year sentence for pirating football matches, while SA offenders are getting light sentences.
The justice is all messed up.
Should the police buy you a new bike or what? Stop crying
@@DeKyDa they could do some swabs or a stakeout or at least something I pay them for.
@@kommissar.murphy a bicycle or a motorbike?? if you got your motorbike stolen you should a license plate and they could go on trying to find it that way probably
@@DeKyDa People say Weight of soul is 21 grams. So how do you feel with 21 grams less in your body ?
It’s so sad to hear you fell on your head while being a baby
One thing I'll never understand is how companies complain about piracy but will close things like the nintendo e-shop
Hot Take: If you live anywhere that is not a first world country, piracy is absolutely necessary
Meh. I live in a first world country, but everything is free on the internet. I aint payin
@@elitrobloxgaming k
@@CuteAnimalVideos2580this is the right mindset
@@elitrobloxgaming shivers me timber
@@saitokazuta3887 said the trans
Billionaires get richer while you get poorer, but god help you if you watch something without paying 70$ for it
You aren't entitled to entertainment or luxury products. Hate to break it to you.
@@cynicalmemester1694 And big companies aren't entitled to my data, but they take it anyway.
@@cynicalmemester1694 That's somewhat true. Just remember that in the future when you will look for a house/apartment or a new car or a phone. Those are also luxury products you are not entitled to. Even more luxury than music, games or books.
At the same time I would argue that music, games or books shouldn't be classified as luxury goods at all. But as a culture heritage products and should be at least made as easily accessible as possible, like what libraries did for the past century, and without 100+ pages of EULA that demands you to waiver all your rights and share all of your personal data just to watch one movie or play one game
@dariusz.9119 I'm referring to purely entertainment products. Not basic essentials like food,water,housing etc.
@@cynicalmemester1694 companys arent people . and so arent bootlickers
Companies like Ubisoft and EA often completely make some games inaccessible when they grow out of favor, wich makes piracy the only way to access them. Let’s all say it again. If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
I'd pirate from multi bigalionares any day
Stealing from corpos and goverment is cool mind you government has PUBLIC funds in theory for development of country but many times its people taking it to live luxurious lifestyles stealing from it is like whatever at this point with all this crap
Meanwhile there is a ton of assholes who pirate cheap indie games.... you all are just pathetic. I dont not pay for movies either but at least im not trying to justify it like a loser
Except you’re not. You’re stealing from the hard workers on the ground floor struggling to make ends meet. Multi billionaire CEO’s are gonna make their money regardless if you steal or something flops, they will always get a golden parachute. So have fun being a dirt bag and actively worsening the lives of people who make your entertainment by your actions
here in Serbia its legal
@@Antbrat4.0 Y E S.
I was listening carefully until you said "paying for Fifa"
Fr
*If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.*
Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
"Are you a "yar har" Pirate or a "yo ho ho" Pirate?"
"I'm a "I'm not paying 700$ on photoshop" Pirate"
One peice
One peice
Yar har fiddle dee dee
Being a pirate is alright to be
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
@@TheOneAndOnlyMalLet’s go Raid some ships like Jack Sparrow!
just like the creator of ultrakill said "culture shouldn't only exist for those who can afford it" this is great and he also said if you can't pay for the game spread it via word of mouth this hella proves how Inde game devs care for the community rather then greedy triple A companies who want you to spend all your money on them by any means necessary.
also great video you got yourself a sub today man
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The worst part is that those huge triple A companies were not like that before. They have given us some absolute gems like Far Cry 3 and 4, all of the Halo games until Halo Reach, some amazing Call of Duties, and more. Games that have made history...
It all went downhill with the invention of DLC and microtransactions...
Piracy is the sign of lack of good service
Is the sign of being poor
@@1yu8omir Keep watching Netflix on on-purpose-decrased quality (~720p) while I can watch it in (~1080p) for free. Pirate does not have DRM at least.
Someone uploaded the entire WALL-E to UA-cam
hahaha yeah I saw that
Downloaded it using a mp3 converter lol
@@Eternalight2036 clover from undertale yellow?
@@jaywebster624 i went to live with martlet
@@Eternalight2036clover did you met a funny skeleton after living with martlet??
I used to pirate games i could not afford as a kid, but now i pirate old movies and standup shows so i wont have to pay a monthly subscription to some crappy service im only gonna use once.
I love how every video saying "I don't recommend pirating" gives us every reason to still do it.
Law surely is bizzare, I can deny supporting piracy as my official stand then beat around the bush giving instructions on how to pirate and why piracy is a good thing, and if someone calls it out i can just say "I was speaking from the perspective of a pirate, yknow i dont support piracy right haha why would you think that"
$10 million to fail to stop "piracy" to save $1 million in losses.
$10 million to improve your actual product or to gain $100 million in growth.
"Let's stop piracy."
1:13 says he’s doesn’t promote piracy the title…
If he doesn't he could get sued by any companies mentioned. All youtubers do this
@@superray9499 yep
@@NardEaterYT yep indeed
A hint is enough for the wise
@@superray9499but he literally did it in the title
Stealing from stealers isn't gonna be a crime 😂
If anything, you’re just taking what’s already yours.
Him: I'm not promoting piracy in any way...
Also him: Piracy is amazing and you should do it!
that was a legal disclaimer so that his video doesnt get taken down
My thoughts 😂
@@nico2441No, that’s for their own protection. Nothing about keeping the video up.
@@XxZannexX well, that's also a reason
I'm not a legal expert but I am going to take a guess that the disclaimer does not suddenly protect the creator from that as the title contradicts that statement. Of course, I really don't believe any authority is going to take any action on this video.
When Tluncher was getting really big , the developers of Minecraft didn't tell ppl to not use it , they told them to pirate the game and give it a try and if they enjoyed it , they should buy the legit thing
They understood the benefits of ppl pirating and how it spread the good name of their game
The game literally did not have a launcher before and most certainly did not require an online-drm to play the game offline. They had the choice but they decided to do it any way, get out of here with that cracked launcher bs. They were hostile to piracy the moment they decided to make it so that I needed to sign into my Mojang account to play their jar files. Minecraft was already insanely popular at the time and this was just before Microsoft bought them. Now I don't own the game anymore because all the Mojang accounts have been deleted.
@@Dean.....I migrated mine to Microsoft because although I'm 24 now. I still remember when my now deceased mom bought it for me and still play on occasion for nostalgia
I belive it was notch who said that
I like how steam is the only platform respected by pirates
If buying games isn't owning them, then piracy isn't theft.
Thank you!
hahaha bingo
@@imeverywhereandnowhere56 you both on point. I have yet to find the point! But I also couldn't hit a dart board if I was 2 inches away from it. Metaphorically speaking 😂😂😂
Rockstar CEO: "we were thinking to make GTA 6 a subscription based game"
@ahmed0545. They're always looking for ways to raise the scum covered bar (big gaming companies)😄
At the end of the day if BUYING isnt OWNING, then PIRACY isnt STEALING :)
Also preservations so in my eyes piracy is justified aslong as the pirated content is gonna stop existing otherwise
The way I see it is this:
Copyright exists as one side of a coin. Public domain is the other. For Copyright to work towards it's intended purpose (encouraging innovation) then public domain is completely required. WIthout it copyright is broken and actually serves contrary to it's purpose and decreases innovation.
It's a deal which once benefitted both parties, but now has been changed after the fact to only benefit one.
Thus I reject it wholesale as an immorality and injustice.
If it's a movie then i'm nuetral since streamng services are stupid, but i'd rather by a DVD. Pirating games is stupid because if you can afford a computer, just by the game. I was literally thinking that teh second he mentioned them and Music Piracy is flatout morally wrong and shouldn't be accepted. BUY AN MP.3 THERE LIKE FIVE DOLLARS.
The thing is, the games won't stop existing 😂😂😂. You are just copying
You don’t need to justify your actions. Piracy is illegal and morally wrong for obvious reasons, doesn’t matter how crap the product might be. At the point you just wouldn’t buy it. Restoring to piracy is an extra step that removes your innocence in the matter
@@proggz39 Reasons so obvious that you cannot explain them even a little bit.
At this point you should just stop talking. Being unable to defend your viewpoint like this removes any indication of intelligence on your part in this matter.
You are correct about one thing, however. I do not need to justify my actions.
“Culture shouldn’t exist only for those who can afford it” -creator of ultrakill
Those who can't afford it have a bigger issue then not able to watch their favorite show, people need a reboot
It's not about being greedy and wanting to save money, it's about not wanting those greedy companies to take your money
Like you don't want to reward them for being greedy, increasing prices, lying in teasers, taking away good features
Edit: i never said that I pirated myself, I just said that this is my take on why one would be justified to steal. In many Situation, piracy is wrong, like say you pirate a small indie game the developer has put years of hard work into, but if for example a service you enjoyed was ruined by for example, removing password sharing or ads being added or having to subscribe to like 10 different services to be able to watch most shows, and then said shows turn out to be trash due to budget cuts and underpaid actors and you also know that millions of other people are paying for these services and losing you as a customer would not have any great impact on the income of the service providers, then pirating these shows/ services or whatever would be ok in my eyes. I myself don't pirate, as said, I mostly just look for free alternatives, like gimp instead of photoshop.
I'm happy to give them money, just not all my money. I was happy paying for Netflix when it has a lot, now there are dozens of streaming services slicing everything up and wanting to gouge me. I'm happy to pay for one service, like Spotify, but not multiple. That is why I don't have a TV
@@JSmith19858check out movie 📦 pro, swiping the emoji for the actual word… now THAT is worth paying for. I am paid up until October 2025
Im perfectly fine with spending money for good games, but if i get an unfinished buggy AAA title for 70€ or more, and the company wants me to spend even more for cosmetics, they don’t deserve my money.
@@JSmith19858 wait you got netflix but you don't got a TV? man you just gone too far
@@JSmith19858 I replied with a suggested app . Google purged it
If it wasn't for piracy, entire generations would've been lost to the void of negligence. One time, not too long ago, Nintendo released Super Mario All-Stars 3-D for a LIMITED TIME. A digital license to play for a limited time. If that is not enough proof of how digusting and petty companies can be with their digital content, then I don't know what to tell you.
Nintendo is the absolute worst. They would gladly burn everything that’s older than 5 years if it makes them another billion.
If you own it you can still play it. It was sold for a limited time, not a limited access licence.
@@SolaceCafe but with nintendo´s mindset,most likely you won´t be able to redownload it on a new console
I own a copy of 3-D All-Stars and I can still play it just fine today
@@ransant.y1111 I'm sorry I didn't express myself correctly. I meant the limited release part.
I feel like it shouldn't be called piracy since it's not aim to really "steal" anything since digital goods aren't your property either, but rather is more like being Robbin Hood, because they give back to the people who can't afford or aren't unsure about buying a 60 dollar game
"piracy is amazing and you should do it"
"im not promoting piracy in any way"
"Everything I say in this video is for purposes of entertainment and satire" LMAO
Gotta keep your bases covered 😎
"For legal reasons I cannot say that I support piracy *however* ..."
The great pirate era is upon us🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Unfortunately… we’re still waiting for new pirates who can crack denuvo, also most games want to get rid of offline mode, which would make piracy near impossible. Apparently there’s some EU law being made about games being playable offline?
I sincerely cannot understand how people claim that piracy is hurting the industry and artists creativity, and yet are completely averse to the emergent idea of harnessing copyright in the manner that can optimally reward creators, encourage creativity, and simultaneously encouraging fairness and support to their customers. It just seems to me that all that outrage was a facade, and copyright was never intended to protect creators and encourage creativity.
There is always a discussion about how much is piracy costing the companies, but EVERY statistic about it only counts "copies downloaded * price of product = loss due to piracy". But what about people who downloaded pirated version and after that became fans and bought merchandise or the product? etc.
It's not in any corporation interest to calculate real value, it's in their interest to calculate the highest value possible
Also dont forget about how some games from EA or Ubisoft are a massive failiure either due to DRM, or game breaking bugs. Yet, they blame it on piracy. There has never been a game where piracy hurts it
@@bumblebeegamerreal I once had to install a crack for my original Diablo II special edition because it required the CD to be spinning in my CD drive all the time, and the drive was really noisy. Having to crack my legal game to play decently was a hard blow to me at that time.
They also don’t *lose* money on piracy, they just don’t make money on the downloads.
If you buy a chrome book and put extra 3rd party ram in it ,for example.
And a month after purchase the screen stops you send it to googles repair centres, they have the right to keep and chromebook without your consent and without paying you back.
If buying isn't ownership, pirating isnt stealing
You modified their product and now they get to steal your money because you stepped on one of their eggshells.
Didn't you learn from school that people in positions of powers are usually jerks, narcissists and cheats? Yeah, now get back to working to buy another Chromebook.
(Sarcasm, of course)
Piracy is the best thing to ever happen to the internet. Old game preservation, advertising, forcing companies to make convenient services, affordalbe games and other things for poor countries and in those where currency rates and wrongly exchanged so you pay more than people in the us while making way less (it's how it is in poland on steam fx) I pirate stuff but also pay for stuff like UA-cam premium and Xbox game pass as those are actually worth for me and convenient even tho i could just crack almost every game i played on XGP
If I’m buying an indie game I won’t pirate it, but if it’s coming from a large corporation who is just trying to run my pockets dry. Then I go for it
My first GTA was pirated, but after then i have bought more legit licenses of different games from rockstars, plus hundreds of dollars in add-ons. So yeah, its literally free marketing
Piracy is a moral right and obligation in today’s society
Where you own nothing you buy until that changes piracy is encouraged
The moment when AI becomes more controversial and frowned upon than piracy:
The usage of AI is similar to piracy tho. Corporations and schools and colleges don’t want you using it, but they end up benefitting from it themselves by installing copilot on their computers and telling their employees or teachers how to use it, saving them money in the long run because they don’t have to pay the employees or teachers as much. Imo that’s similar to greedy corporations shunning piracy yet going out of their way to save as much money as possible.
Because AI shows the hypocrisy of companies. It's perfectly fine for them to steal your data and make a profit off of it but you steal their content and now you are an irredeemable criminal.
@brony_in_the_sticks i think you misinterpreted my comment
If AI generation models are allowed to steal content from small creators I think game is game.
I think you should condemn evil acts, not sink to their level
If the AI doesn't pay me why should i pay them
@@marcinmcula99 Intellectual Property law was created as a way for corporations to use the government's threats of violence to manufacture monopolies ∴ adhering to it is morally reprehensible and piracy is a moral obligation
But AI generation models don't steal so...
I see that lack of understanding in fair use is strong here.
I pirated FL Studio for 10 years. Last year, I finally had enough disposable income to buy some software, and FL Studio was the first thing I bought.
fl studio is adobe animate?
@@timkerer9607 no silly, it's a Digital Audio Workstation, where you can make songs
@@timkerer9607you gotta be trolling to be commenting that
The foo fighters guy saying that he doesn't care, he would prefer people to rock out in Thailand when they turn up is because although the record companies were telling us that piracy hurts the artists we love that wasnt anywhere near the truth.
Artists mostly get paid from their live shows which is why the artist couldn't care less about piracy as he knows the more people that listen to his music the more people will turn up to the shows. The record label takes the majority of money from album sales, most artists will actually end up broke even after selling millions of copies.
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"Culture should not just exist for those who can afford it."
Pay indies, pirate big tech
Yea i'm totally against pirating indie games
Pirate indies, pirate all
good idea. indie devs def. need our support.
Some people pirate stuff like video games because 80$ for us is a good chunk of their salary.
A person salting fries at a mcdonald's in the US is earning as much, or even more than a doctor in Poland.
so true!!! i live in poland, and buying triple a games is a nightmare, why are they as much as my monthly groceries? its crazy
@@julam936They refuse to implement regional pricing on their "tRiPlE a" games. You'll find that the money you spend on 5 indie games is just barely enough to pay for MWIII.
@@julam936 Are prices not adjusted for your region?
@kphuts815 purchasing power sure isnt
Thing is min wage is supposed to be enough to support a family of four. It was passed to do that and help get the US out of the Great Depression.
I will always pirate the Sims 4 and all its DLC’s and no one will ever convince me to do otherwise
The best way to show all of this is music, not much exclusivity and pretty convenient. No need for music piracy.
And yet for some reasons some tracks might disappear from streaming. Maybe come back, maybe not. Recent example, The chronic and Doggystyle going out from Spotify (they are back now). I had to pirate it meanwhile, because i don't have a CD drive in my house.
The most music I own on CD isn’t even available for streaming. 🤣
music piracy is just as big retar d🤣🤣 there's literally mp3 downloads...spotify mod aps
that's because the music industry had to learn their lesson the hard way, with sites like LimeWire becoming absolutely massive in the 90's and early 00's. They basically were *forced* to provide music to people in the most convenient way imaginable just to be able to compete with music piracy giants. The games industry never experienced this, in part because anti-piracy software can be baked right into the product, and then it takes a while for people to crack it.
@@JohnMarston-lo5qkEXACTLY, THATS WHAT I SAID ON ANOTHER COMMENT! People who pirate are legitamitely the scum of the earth. MP3s are like 3-5 dollars if you cant afford that then you cant afford speakers to play it on cheapskate.
I don't get why companies get mad when people who they're not even selling a product to, pirates the product. Same thing when people pirate old products that aren't being sold anymore. Sorry Nintendo, but most people can't afford buying an NES and a Super Mario Bros cartridge from a reseller for a few thousand dollars.
Even if they could, there arent enough to go around
best of all,they don´t get a dime from buying those legit retro games anyways cause 100% of that money goes to the reseller
@@nomoredlc593 That's why you cannot re-sell modern games. They don't like being cut out of the $ loop.
the main reason for piracy is all these companies think every country in the world has the same purchasing power and luxary as USA. They literally have the "superhero movie syndrome" i.e. USA is the world
Another reason why piracy is justified is because not everyone is lucky to be born in countries with high purchase power parity like here in the US or in Europe. I have a friend from a third world country and he says that while here a game or a movie costs few dollars, there costs way more, and that paired with low incomes makes buying original content impossible for the vast majority.
How does that justify theft? I was born in a poor family and will never be able to afford a nice home, so I should just get one for free?
@@proggz39 stupid comparison were talking about digital content where it based on a set purchase price with effectively infinite copies that are issued at a non local economy adjusted rate, compared to something like houses which work on a supply demand system and are priced based on that areas local economy
@@proggz39 It doesn't. But thats assuming piracy is theft to begin with.
@@proggz39 ignoring your very silly comparison, I don't think people should have to pay to live but clearly you aren't ready for that conversation
Even in europe, a country like Poland has one the highest relative game prices in the world. It's f*cking ridiculous
"Piracy is an issue of service , not price" Lord GabeN
Eh price too
It was best said by an indie game developer when he heard his games were pirated " culture shouldn't be blocked behind a paywall".
It’s only illegal unless the government does it and calls it taxes.
Bro i think you don't know what you are talking about
@jj4l"Ancap" , no he's just normal. Imagine thinking the government is good🤑🥺
Moron
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.
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Based on my own experience throughout more than 15 years I would say that your statement and Gaben's together make the complete truth.
A: I mostly used pirated stuff that I wouldn't buy anyway so me using that could only benefit the owner/developer since I could probably end up paying them in the future.
B: As I got older and started to make my own money I started to actually pay for services, games, movies etc. as it was more convenient than going through sometimes complicated cracking process, slow download times or possible malware and so on but I still do pirate some stuff from time to time because if I pay for a movie or a streaming service I don't want 480p quality or a picture on only half of the screen when pirated version is 1080-2160p fullscreen.
So in the end when companies cry about pirated software it's just pathetic since it's their own fault when the people who could pay them just won't do it while the people who wouldn't pay anyway are out of the question either way...
i never thought of piracy as theft, more like a- let me test this before i give you a lot of my money - let me listen to this until i can afford the record - let me watch this in low cam recorded resolution so it fits the content im watching in quality ^^ Like Dave growl said, they just want to squeese every little penny even if they dont have to. at least in music a lot of bands say, as long as you like the music- go ahead we have enough money
🎶 "If I steal your bicycle then you have to take the bus, but if I just copy it then there's one for each of us!" 🎶
This is also why I like video game demos. I get a taste of the product to decide if it is worth my money. I don’t want to pay for a software if I’m not going to end up using it. Also a lot of services are blocked behind predatory subscriptions and paywalls which explains why so many people would rather take a different route to get their content.
In the case of video games, at least for Nintendo games, those who pirate the most are people who care about the games and want to preserve them. People get their games like that when they aren’t easily and conveniently available and when prices are absurd for games that aren’t sold officially anymore. It’s often the only way to play rare games, exclusive ones and lost media without having to go full detective mode or paying more than its original full price.
Piracy exists because of poor service.
Once upon a time, the developer of ultrakill said: "culture shouldn't exist just for those who can afford it, if you cant support the game via buying it, support it via word of mouth" a lot of people pirate not because they dont want to buy, but because they cant, a lot of people like me and possibly you didn't have visas and so we pirated, not because we wanted to but because we cant buy it, it isn't the whole picture but a big portion of it
I feel like 50% of piracy is this.
Growing up (from age 6 to [undefined]) i used to pirate games because I just had no money or no way to buy them in my country, and i was extremely scared to ask my mom for 4 usd to buy a game on steam.
So as soon as I got money and a way to pay for steam games without a visa in my country, i bought basically all ganes that i pirated and loved, because they deserved the money (and because i wouldn't have to download it again on another PC and could just use the *simple* and *useful* services of steam).
I'm a big fan- the one piece of advice I can give you is to pad a tiny bit more of a gap between your sentences that you've cut together. Give each sentence a fraction of a second more to breathe, and it will flow more naturally- you'll want to give it enough time as if you were taking a breath between sentences, even if you've cut the breath out. Otherwise, your sentences tend to run together and feel a bit overwhelming. Everything else is pretty great though!
The studio selling the game only benefits from me pirating the game, i wouldn't buy it anyway, but i build community and by talking to my peers i create actual buyer
My friends have bought games that I pirated simply because they saw me playing it and thought it was cool
I can't believe in 10~15 years time companies have succesfully brainwashed people to think piracy is bad.
2008 you were weird if you wired money online for anything, limewire, piratebay, hell it's even the time Pirate Parties in politics got founded because it was an actual movement.
Nowadays you're weird if you don't pay 5+ monthly subscriptions and piracy is frowned upon. If games are becoming live service and dependent on support without CDs anymore, you wouldn't own it. No ownership = No theft.
Game renting is barely even a thing anymore. You buy the game you get the game. Movies are fair game since like you said you can't really own one wothout going to a record store for a movie you not even like.
If I can have a great anime website where I can watch my anime, read what people thoughts about the anime, the site is easy to use and can work with Mal or stuff like that , I will pay for it but there isn't a anime website like that, it only exists in piracy so yea
Acting like trading currency for goods hasn’t been normalized for 8,000 years is crazy and really shows your lack of understanding. Buying a CD never gave you the right to own what was on it, only access. Much like buying a digital copy doesn’t give you the right to own the software, but to access it. You guys are really showing an elementary understanding of this
@@proggz39 Back in 2005, when you bought a CD, you owned that physical disc and had the practical ability to access the content as long as you had the hardware. No one was arguing that buying a CD gave you rights to the intellectual property, but it did give you unlimited access to that content, whether or not the IP holder wanted you to have it. That’s ownership in a practical sense: the content was yours to access regardless of server availability, corporate whims, or forced obsolescence.
Today, with the push towards digital media and live services, that kind of ownership is disappearing. You're no longer buying a product, you're buying access, access that can be revoked, altered, or denied at any time. That’s not just a change in medium; it’s a fundamental shift in consumer rights and culture. To pretend that nothing significant has changed and to conflate the physical ownership of a product with merely buying a license for access is not just naive, it's a misrepresentation that downplays how much control corporations now exert over what we used to own.
So don't act like this is just business as usual, it's a calculated move to strip away the ownership rights that were once taken for granted.
Piracy is a compliment that you made such good content that I'm going off to such lengths to access content that I'm clicking any shady site even if it costs me my computer
If I pay for something, I expect to keep it. If a greedy gaming company steals from me, I'm going to take it back because I paid for it.
You're not promoting piracy, but I wouldn't have gotten through school if it wasn't for the books being pirated online.
So I do.
Half of the knowledge that I use in my daily job was obtained by pirating technical books that I wouldn't have been able to pay otherwise.
It is not just morally acceptable to pirate textbooks. It is moral duty to do so.
Most of the actually good professors who care about their students will likely have a PDF of the textbook somewhere. I had a few like that, and damn do they come in clutch.
If piracy did not exist, we would be paying more for less content in digital media. All big techs are monopoly or oligopoly in their market.
i’m watching this on an ad free youtube mobile app 😊
If you can't buy it and own it you can't "steal" it.
Well not really. There is also a thing called "renting". You dont buy a game, you rent access to a game with one time payment for as long as a company gives you access to it.
@@crossxer6099then why does every place lie and say you're buying it
@@YourLocalMedic to trick you and because its easier to understand concept.
@@crossxer6099Renting games? What year is this again?
@@crossxer6099 The button I press in Steam says "Buy", not "Rent"...
For who piracy: "you are completely MALICIOUS, you are a criminous, the worst person on earth, how dare you steal the work of other person".
For them: "Fair Use"
2:44 "gabby neuwel"
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing Louis Rossmann
Piracy has afforded me a 120TB NAS Server, a pimped out PC, an 8k 86 inch tv and bowers and Wilkins Theatre system.
I started out poor. Now I'm not, because piracy.
but now you’re the rich person we all hate
@@MemSt3ler Exactly.
This guy is a porch pirate
I grew up in a similar situation: a pc that could run games, but no money. That that we are all older, we... well, they don't play that much anymore, but I still play a lot. Games that I played when I was a kid, the games that I loved the most, I ended up buying them. Or even games in early access, like satisfactory and beamng drive, now that I have the money, I can finally buy them and support them through the early access phase, after "trying" them (for legal reasons, those were demos of the game).
Way back in 2010 we bought pirated dvds of software for 2usd for 3pcs of dvds I still remember that we bought doom, windows 7 ultimate, photoshop
“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” - Gabe Newell
Always fine with buying from steam, Gabe knew what he was doing
in italy we pay a "tax" on each drive for presumption of piracy. why shouldn't I do it at this point? I have already paid
Same in Spain. Any media that could potentially be used to replicate other media is heavily taxed. That includes… paper.
@@chrishoppner150 so i already paid
@2:53 “but before we talk about why piracy is a service problem” I thought that was going to be the hardest ad read segue ever.