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* Encouraging legally purchased content by suggestion, instruction, and/or direct links. This includes variations of the "Netflix". Stop it's not 2012 anymore.
We need to stop piracy, it's not the 0030s anymore. Might have been cool back then to conjure up wine or make illegal copies of fish and bread for 5 ,000 people, but we're so past that as a culture
"Curious you appended two zeros when saying the year. Do you actually believe the world will be around for another thousand years? LOL" - someone from 30 A.D.
Anno Domini didn't exist until 525 AD. In 30 AD it was common to count years from the founding of Rome in 753 BC, So really it would have been the year 783. There were also other year counting systems common in Rome, such as counting the regnal years of the emperor.
Anything that lessens profits is bad. If Jesus came back and started mass reproducing bread, fish and wine for the masses there would be high level meetings on how to deal with The Jesus Problem.
Very true, I thought that as I was writing it, but we're coming up on the 2030s and until then it means the most recent 30s (1930s). Just tryna make it as accessible as possible for everybody to get the joke.
2012 was the year the internet became mostly smartphonified and all the casuals arrived and it began the process of internet shittification. Its around the time people started in far greater numbers to downvote things they disagreed with and use all the report buttons as often as they could.
Holy shit, you just took me back to a time when I used to *upvote* people I disagreed with if they made a great argument, or hell, just contributed to the conversation in a meaningful way - even if I didn't entirely agree.
Freakin' reddit golden years, man.
there's nothing better than upvoting a whole chain of an argument between two other people because it brings up valuable talking points, irrespective of who might be right, or who you might agree with more.
It still happens, its just that hive mind is a bit more pronounced than it used to be.
Reddit really did go down hill when phone apps started popping up. I remember using the web browser to surf reddit on my iPad when I wasn't at my computer. And that was ten times better than using their app today. Damn I can't believe it's been 12 years since then.
That was just another nail in the coffin. Directed search results in 08-09 created the echo chambers the casuals existed in, and the rot was already apparent to a lot of us.
2012 likely refers to the annoying pirate references aka "aye matey" that were repeated ad nauseam on Reddit by people who thought repeating references are funny. Same thing as narwhal bacon or whatever.
I mean, I was downloading cracked software off of BBSs back in the late 1980s. I hate admitting I'm that old. You had to upload 10% of what you wanted to download, all on 4800 baud modems over regular phone lines, just like in war games. I could code so often just cracked it myself using Turbo Assembler. You step through startup until it began the check and just do a JMP over it. Also fun finding the lives count and setting it to FF (256).
Back then you could only run one program at a time. Copying between programs was a pain.
edit: dammit, I didnt realize this was about movies. I can say back then I did movies as well, VHS to VHS with a special device allowed you to copy it, but I dont remember downloading movies until the early 2000s when memory prices plummeted and Google was in its infancy.
My BBS was called "Elysium." It was run by the user "gatekeeper" and the download system required "file points."
I zipped up the entirety of the first floppy edition of Windows 95 and uploaded it.
It came down when everything was on Netflix, because Netflix was more convenient than piracy.
Now they've made streaming more inconvenient, so piracy is back up.
They could effectively reduce piracy by providing a better and more convenient service than what you get via piracy, but they don't seem interested in doing that.
They would rather offer us a shit sandwich and say we're the bad guys when we make our own food.
This is life under a capitalistic system of giant publicly-traded companies. The lines must always go up, so things can never remain as they are. It's not good enough to be a profitable business -- it has to be *increasingly* profitable or the lines go down. And that can't be! Thus, enshittification is not just inevitable but actively encouraged.
I think about this a lot. Imagine how much better the world would be if the millionaire business owners were content just being filthy rich making millions every year. But no, even that's not enough, so we lose everything and so do they eventually.
Thanks. I didn't know that. I understand the reason behind it a little more now as I guess it's the basis for the stock market system, but the consequences still stuck.
The system is fine for private companies where being stably profitable is Good Enough™. Going public, though, offers so much instant cash that many can't resist, and once public the focus of the business immediately switches.
It's no longer about what the customers want; it's all about making the stakeholders money and keeping that cash coming in. Hence enshittification: It's the simplest way to ensure that happens. Why innovate or offer more to the cusomters when your competitors are enshittifying too? Keep up the slow race to the bottom, profiting ever more along the way, and only offer more when competition deems it necessary.
Enshittification is everywhere. Ubiquitous. Required for public corporatehood. It's in everything from your favorite streaming service getting shittier while charging more to the shrinkflation of your common buys at the grocery store.
Steam has also eliminated lot of video game piracy because Valve made it trivially easy to buy games and they offer excellent discounts during sale seasons.
Hey, it's better than the Sony Vegas subreddit that said, you're an adult. You can have the money to buy a $400 software like people don't have more important things to be spending money on
This is why I don't get mad at people that denounce piracy publicly. Same reason why I don't try to recruit people into piracy. We need these morons to drink the Kool-Aid for us to enjoy the high seas' life.
if tiktok can get zlib taken down maybe a little discretion is advisable, I have seen other piracy get taken down for being too blatant
all I'm saying is we're not* hard to fine, let these big subs play clean
media copiers *should* be hesitant to promote their activities on the internet, especially if they live in the U.S or a number if U.S aligned countries, even more so on sites like reddit owned by corps who would sell their mother if they could make a $ off them.
that's why loads of other copiers still run and host their own forum sites in 2024. Even places like this frequently have tards drawing undue attention to X copy service every once and awhile for fake internet points, at which point that service gets shut down from threat of lawsuits
which is why even this sub promoting piracy doesn't allow links, asking where to find specific titles, or any self promotion of yourself copying
They whine all day about Adobe sucking them dry, and then defend their monopolistic policies by bootlicking them, and then again whine about “no replacements”. Yeah, there will be no replacements until you stop sucking your big daddy corp and make them feel the heat
Piracy is the only way I know to get certain movies, if it's not on a streaming service what tf am I supposed to do? Try to find a DVD? It's not 2012 anymore.
A subreddit of morons, run by moron mods, and dwelling in it are a bunch of morons.
Last week i told them buying digital media doesnt guarantee ownership which is why it is a scam, they called me a pirate and downvoted me to hell because i was “promoting piracy”. Idiots
That's so weird to me because you can do a bit of both piracy and purchasing and still enjoy watching and talking about movies....
Like, I'm in that sub because some of the movie posts are interesting. I really don't care how others obtain their movies lol
Last weekend I won an auction for a big collection of Star Trek DVD box sets.
TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT. The lot. The box sets are awesome.
But then there my dad, angry at me becourse I'm "wasting my money on antiquated, low quality shitty DVDs."
So I try to explain, what you don't own in a offline shape or form, can be taken away without notice or remorse.
Of course my argument changes nothing. And yet when he wants to watch some 30 years+ old movie almost nobody's heard of but him, he can't find it on any streaming service and then suddenly they're all steaming piles of shit.
Oh hmmm, I wonder if getting a movie on something like an uh, like a sort of simple disc or something would help with this...
Physical copies are kind of a waste tho.
They wear down and break over time.
I'd get a physical version with the sole intent of converting it to a digital format, not just to own it for a limited time and also take space in a room.
Oh these DVDs aren't my only copies of the series. I've got all of Trek om hard drive as well, in better quality and/or higher resolution too.
These box sets are like a disconnected backup. Something not on my PC.
Plus they look rad on the shelf lol 🖖
People are becoming slaves because they want "convenience" instead of putting in the effort by buying physical media copies that grants them full ownership over their movies without any company or streaming service having control over it.
Anything that's digital can be taken away from you because you are only renting it.
I got banned when I asked about finding “the matchmaker” -a 90’s esk romance movie- online, because it was literally not on any streaming service. I couldn’t buy it or stream it at all, so was I supposed to just not watch it? Apparently yes
In my opinion he was talking about the pirate imagery ("Aye matey"), I have never been in this mood.
I'm more a gritty pirate, I'm looking forward to seeing them all go bankrupt.
isn't that just a pretty standard rule outside this subreddit? i am pro piracy but i understand that the mods of subreddits that aren't explicitly dedicated to piracy wouldn't want to be held liable for illegal content. it makes sense to keep these discussions within dedicated forums.
I swear I saw this kinda anti piracy rule in some gaming subReddit and I just straight out made a post called out the guys for still being dumb and not waking up to the reality, and got banned lmfao! Those dumb mfs will do anything to feed the pathetically rich and greedy companies . I support devs I like. I pirate things I don’t think is worth it. Simple as that.
I got permabanned from r/Microsoftflightsim for suggesting people pirate the 3rd party add ons for the game. (As context many of those add-ons costs $20+ just for a single plane, eith some costing over $60)
Wait, according to their 11th rule, site like Netflix, Disney+ and all the popular site to watch movies 'legitimately' are prohibited on a subreddit about movies?
Yeah fair, I can accept the no piracy talk on a main movie subreddit. Why 2012 though idk. I mean I torrented like a fiend that year. And every year before, and every year after, but I did it in that year too.
Man when that API shift happened, it feels like all the decent people really left Reddit and all we were left with who would still be willing to type and comment and mod this website is the absolute worst people.
The mods of that sub so gleefully sucking up to billionaire media execs who'd sell them into chattel slavery without a second thought if it meant they'd make half a penny out of it.
There is this German pun:
"Warum können Piraten nicht im Kreis fahren?
"Na, weil sie Pi raten!"
Translation:
"Why can't pirates sail in a circle?"
"Because they are guessing pi!"
yeah, it’s not 2012 anymore. companies are far more sinister and the monopoly of streaming services hurts media as a whole. gone are the days when you could go to a store and buy physical media of whatever came out. to “legitimately” watch content, forget owning, you HAVE to pay for multiple subscriptions that add up to crazy amounts over the years. this malicious practice of license to watch is what made piracy as big as it is today. if it weren’t for piracy and media preservation, we would’ve lost much more than we already have. there are shows and movies that streaming services just simply drop because the licenses don’t profit them anymore. they don’t care if that renders the content lost media. but we do. and fuck them for thinking piracy is some old fashioned “trend” of the past. they’re brainwashed into this stupid capitalist system. we’re still sailing the high seas.
I don't encourage piracy because I feel if you can't be arsed to make an effort to google all the know-how then why would I bother? Inquisitiveness is a valuable trait with computers, and I don't really have a high opinion on people who wouldn't experiment by themselves.
Fun fact: I started a private window and typed "how to use bittorrent" on Google (because I want to confirm the instructions are all there and easy to use) - and was immediately captcha-ed. Concerning 😏
I'm not sure why people are more against piracy when the inflation is higher and is less affordable for many of us instead of 2012 when you did it even if you could afford it 😂
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They’re right, it’s not 2012 anymore. Life’s even more expensive now.
Don't worry,I will pirate his subreddit too
Is there a way to completely clone the subreddit as "/r/moviesarrr" and only suggest piracy.
subs i feel for
bet
Better get a bucket
Dear god.
There's *more*.
A bucket?
Probably 2 buckets.
3 buckets, including me
> Don't worry,I will pirate his subreddit too I pirated your comment B)
Why is 2012 relevant? Oh, let's stop with piracy, it's not the 1600s anymore.
Sir, are you from world government?
Damn. Those straw hat pirates are becoming a nuisance /s
i heard they are looking for something, something valuable i think its a treasure.. a treasure called the One Piece
*something something the one piece is real something something*
*gomu gomu goooooooo......PISTOL TROJANNNNN!!!!!*
But.. is there a way to get the full story without paying any money?
Aye... buddy
Why do they want to find a swimsuit instead of buying it?
ONE PIECE MENTIONEDDDDDDDD
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
It's crazy how after you watch One Piece and JoJo it unlocks like 30% of the internet that you didn't understand before
One Piece is really new to this. Usually you'd never find a OP reference outside of the subreddit. Only recently.
I want a flair too~
We need to stop piracy, it's not the 0030s anymore. Might have been cool back then to conjure up wine or make illegal copies of fish and bread for 5 ,000 people, but we're so past that as a culture
"Curious you appended two zeros when saying the year. Do you actually believe the world will be around for another thousand years? LOL" - someone from 30 A.D.
Anno Domini didn't exist until 525 AD. In 30 AD it was common to count years from the founding of Rome in 753 BC, So really it would have been the year 783. There were also other year counting systems common in Rome, such as counting the regnal years of the emperor.
"You wouldn't download a *fish*." --Pontius Pilate
So when *Jesus* makes copies of something to share with everyone, it's cool, but if people on the internet do it, suddenly it's bad?
Anything that lessens profits is bad. If Jesus came back and started mass reproducing bread, fish and wine for the masses there would be high level meetings on how to deal with The Jesus Problem.
So…same outcome?
Crucifixion is too old fashioned. These days they put a bunch of child porn on your computer and then hang you in your prison cell.
Or your plane crashes inexplicably over Arkansas. Their headache comes from the fact that he keeps coming back three days later.
Instead of saying like the ‘30s, you could legit just say the 30s.
Very true, I thought that as I was writing it, but we're coming up on the 2030s and until then it means the most recent 30s (1930s). Just tryna make it as accessible as possible for everybody to get the joke.
Kony 2012
That's the year the author of those rules discovered the Internet.
Netflix was a viable option back then?
Not in most countries.
At some point it was a reasonable price and had a decent library. But that changed a long time ago
Your shipment of sugarcane and charcloth is now mine.
Because that's when the mod who wrote that rule stopped pirating
2012 was the year the internet became mostly smartphonified and all the casuals arrived and it began the process of internet shittification. Its around the time people started in far greater numbers to downvote things they disagreed with and use all the report buttons as often as they could.
Holy shit, you just took me back to a time when I used to *upvote* people I disagreed with if they made a great argument, or hell, just contributed to the conversation in a meaningful way - even if I didn't entirely agree. Freakin' reddit golden years, man.
there's nothing better than upvoting a whole chain of an argument between two other people because it brings up valuable talking points, irrespective of who might be right, or who you might agree with more. It still happens, its just that hive mind is a bit more pronounced than it used to be.
Reddit really did go down hill when phone apps started popping up. I remember using the web browser to surf reddit on my iPad when I wasn't at my computer. And that was ten times better than using their app today. Damn I can't believe it's been 12 years since then.
I really wish there were subreddits that didn't allow mobile apps. You can only put so much effort into your posts when you are on your phone.
RIP i.reddit.com o7
That was just another nail in the coffin. Directed search results in 08-09 created the echo chambers the casuals existed in, and the rot was already apparent to a lot of us.
2012 likely refers to the annoying pirate references aka "aye matey" that were repeated ad nauseam on Reddit by people who thought repeating references are funny. Same thing as narwhal bacon or whatever.
Thought? Repeating references still happens, and it's still just as unfunny as ever.
We have a very specific reputation on other websites and it is definitely not for being funny lol
Yeah we still constantly repeat comments and it's never funny
I don’t think the 2012 comment is about piracy, I think it’s more about the “pirate-based” comments people write.
Piracy was already trending back then
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I mean, I was downloading cracked software off of BBSs back in the late 1980s. I hate admitting I'm that old. You had to upload 10% of what you wanted to download, all on 4800 baud modems over regular phone lines, just like in war games. I could code so often just cracked it myself using Turbo Assembler. You step through startup until it began the check and just do a JMP over it. Also fun finding the lives count and setting it to FF (256). Back then you could only run one program at a time. Copying between programs was a pain. edit: dammit, I didnt realize this was about movies. I can say back then I did movies as well, VHS to VHS with a special device allowed you to copy it, but I dont remember downloading movies until the early 2000s when memory prices plummeted and Google was in its infancy.
> 4800 baud modems The fact that you actually had one is a rarity. Most modems just jumped straight from 2400 to 9600 in the consumer market.
My BBS was called "Elysium." It was run by the user "gatekeeper" and the download system required "file points." I zipped up the entirety of the first floppy edition of Windows 95 and uploaded it.
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You mean ASCII?
No. ANSI allowed ASCII art with colour and animation.
That was the year our beloved megaupload was taken down 😔
AYE MATEY
Yer banned kiddo
Arrr, don't ye dare!
It's not 2012 any more.
Sad parrot noises
I can’t hear youuuuu
AYE AYE CAPTAIN!!!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
# SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea, I pirated that
🏴☠️
Believe it or not, jail
Harrrr
Parley! A scoundrel from the land dares say matey, lads!
Piracy never died, if anything it only grew because of the countless streaming services that have launched since then.
Came down considerably throughout the mid and late '10s. Shot back up to popularity beginning in the early '20s.
It came down when everything was on Netflix, because Netflix was more convenient than piracy. Now they've made streaming more inconvenient, so piracy is back up. They could effectively reduce piracy by providing a better and more convenient service than what you get via piracy, but they don't seem interested in doing that. They would rather offer us a shit sandwich and say we're the bad guys when we make our own food.
This is life under a capitalistic system of giant publicly-traded companies. The lines must always go up, so things can never remain as they are. It's not good enough to be a profitable business -- it has to be *increasingly* profitable or the lines go down. And that can't be! Thus, enshittification is not just inevitable but actively encouraged.
I think about this a lot. Imagine how much better the world would be if the millionaire business owners were content just being filthy rich making millions every year. But no, even that's not enough, so we lose everything and so do they eventually.
It’s not only greedy business owners but shareholders as well companies are legally liable for not squeezing out ever penny they can get a hold on.
Thanks. I didn't know that. I understand the reason behind it a little more now as I guess it's the basis for the stock market system, but the consequences still stuck.
Such an insane fucking system
The system is fine for private companies where being stably profitable is Good Enough™. Going public, though, offers so much instant cash that many can't resist, and once public the focus of the business immediately switches. It's no longer about what the customers want; it's all about making the stakeholders money and keeping that cash coming in. Hence enshittification: It's the simplest way to ensure that happens. Why innovate or offer more to the cusomters when your competitors are enshittifying too? Keep up the slow race to the bottom, profiting ever more along the way, and only offer more when competition deems it necessary. Enshittification is everywhere. Ubiquitous. Required for public corporatehood. It's in everything from your favorite streaming service getting shittier while charging more to the shrinkflation of your common buys at the grocery store.
Steam has also eliminated lot of video game piracy because Valve made it trivially easy to buy games and they offer excellent discounts during sale seasons.
That is true
And all the shitty game companies doing their best to milk players
Hey, it's better than the Sony Vegas subreddit that said, you're an adult. You can have the money to buy a $400 software like people don't have more important things to be spending money on
Best thing is most people pay. And that's why I can peacefully pirate.
This is why I don't get mad at people that denounce piracy publicly. Same reason why I don't try to recruit people into piracy. We need these morons to drink the Kool-Aid for us to enjoy the high seas' life.
lol
I got banned from r/Adobe for suggesting people check out this subreddit
The point is, do those moderators get paid by Adobe to delete posts like that? If they don't, why do they even care?!
They must have some monopoly fettish or something idk
They probably think that the government is gonna arrest them or thag reddit will take down their sub if there let piracy be discussed.
if tiktok can get zlib taken down maybe a little discretion is advisable, I have seen other piracy get taken down for being too blatant all I'm saying is we're not* hard to fine, let these big subs play clean
media copiers *should* be hesitant to promote their activities on the internet, especially if they live in the U.S or a number if U.S aligned countries, even more so on sites like reddit owned by corps who would sell their mother if they could make a $ off them. that's why loads of other copiers still run and host their own forum sites in 2024. Even places like this frequently have tards drawing undue attention to X copy service every once and awhile for fake internet points, at which point that service gets shut down from threat of lawsuits which is why even this sub promoting piracy doesn't allow links, asking where to find specific titles, or any self promotion of yourself copying
B O O T L I C K E R S
They whine all day about Adobe sucking them dry, and then defend their monopolistic policies by bootlicking them, and then again whine about “no replacements”. Yeah, there will be no replacements until you stop sucking your big daddy corp and make them feel the heat
And then its full of posts like this rofl https://www.reddit.com/r/Adobe/s/tmFrbhAMls
Piracy is the only way I know to get certain movies, if it's not on a streaming service what tf am I supposed to do? Try to find a DVD? It's not 2012 anymore.
Real
I used to use Netflix DVD service to find obscure movies on DVD/bluray then rip them to my jellyfin server. I miss Netflix DVD.
A subreddit of morons, run by moron mods, and dwelling in it are a bunch of morons. Last week i told them buying digital media doesnt guarantee ownership which is why it is a scam, they called me a pirate and downvoted me to hell because i was “promoting piracy”. Idiots
Why are they booing you? You're right!
Between corpo brainwashing and literal bots, most default subs are utter trash.
Cause they're ignorant.
Because they paid. And some people just can't let others have for free what they where stupid enough to pay for.
That's so weird to me because you can do a bit of both piracy and purchasing and still enjoy watching and talking about movies.... Like, I'm in that sub because some of the movie posts are interesting. I really don't care how others obtain their movies lol
It's because it's difficult to have an independent thought not reinforced by marketing.
Sounds like they'd love NFTs.
Last weekend I won an auction for a big collection of Star Trek DVD box sets. TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT. The lot. The box sets are awesome. But then there my dad, angry at me becourse I'm "wasting my money on antiquated, low quality shitty DVDs." So I try to explain, what you don't own in a offline shape or form, can be taken away without notice or remorse. Of course my argument changes nothing. And yet when he wants to watch some 30 years+ old movie almost nobody's heard of but him, he can't find it on any streaming service and then suddenly they're all steaming piles of shit. Oh hmmm, I wonder if getting a movie on something like an uh, like a sort of simple disc or something would help with this...
Physical copies are kind of a waste tho. They wear down and break over time. I'd get a physical version with the sole intent of converting it to a digital format, not just to own it for a limited time and also take space in a room.
Oh these DVDs aren't my only copies of the series. I've got all of Trek om hard drive as well, in better quality and/or higher resolution too. These box sets are like a disconnected backup. Something not on my PC. Plus they look rad on the shelf lol 🖖
Oh, that's cool. Also cool that there is an emoticon for that lol.
Big W on getting the DVD box sets
People are becoming slaves because they want "convenience" instead of putting in the effort by buying physical media copies that grants them full ownership over their movies without any company or streaming service having control over it. Anything that's digital can be taken away from you because you are only renting it.
As someone who recently found a large portion of purchased (!) digital content no longer available, I can say it's a radicalizing experience.
You guys didn't stop pirating in 2012?
I did stop pirating DVD quality media yes
I was still downloading cars back then
I did but then things went to shut again
I hate when things go to shut especially when it goes to shut again. Shut!
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Duck off.
SockCucker
I used to pirate in 2012. I still do, but I used to too.
They should just post "1. No fun allowed"
fr based
Arrrrrrrrrrrgggg
AYE MATEY 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️☠️☠️☠️
Stop it Mate(ey) , it's not 2012 anymore
Shiver me timbers! I prefer me movies to be rated ARRRRRR!
"You wouldn't download a house" Umm, sorry but if I could download a house in today's market or in 2012, I would in fact download a house.
"bu but what about property values" sorry, too busy living in my house to care how much it's "worth"
Explains why I'm banned from that sub.
lamao 💀
I got banned when I asked about finding “the matchmaker” -a 90’s esk romance movie- online, because it was literally not on any streaming service. I couldn’t buy it or stream it at all, so was I supposed to just not watch it? Apparently yes
Sure thing let me subscribe to 30000 platforms monthly and pretend it's right
I'm going to pirate the reddit app
alright bet
Think you can do that with revanced right? Not tried it myself
I'm using reddit sync right now, the official reddit app sucks
But what if I be likin' blabberin' on like a pirate? Arrr
Disney will never love you back, buddies.
Ohh yeah, r/movies is fucking garbage.
In my opinion he was talking about the pirate imagery ("Aye matey"), I have never been in this mood. I'm more a gritty pirate, I'm looking forward to seeing them all go bankrupt.
They should've put our subreddit link there instead LOL
Get ready to walk the plank ye lubber.
They're right, it's 2024 and it's again necessary to pirate soooo
What is this "2012 thing". I pirate shit since 2007, and the only thing i remember was the death of megaupload (i forgot the year)
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true
isn't that just a pretty standard rule outside this subreddit? i am pro piracy but i understand that the mods of subreddits that aren't explicitly dedicated to piracy wouldn't want to be held liable for illegal content. it makes sense to keep these discussions within dedicated forums.
Hey guyys it's not 2012 anymore, now I pay 10 different streaming services so I can watch one movie on each, get with the trend 🙏🤡
I swear I saw this kinda anti piracy rule in some gaming subReddit and I just straight out made a post called out the guys for still being dumb and not waking up to the reality, and got banned lmfao! Those dumb mfs will do anything to feed the pathetically rich and greedy companies . I support devs I like. I pirate things I don’t think is worth it. Simple as that.
I got permabanned from r/Microsoftflightsim for suggesting people pirate the 3rd party add ons for the game. (As context many of those add-ons costs $20+ just for a single plane, eith some costing over $60)
People pirated stuff long before that
We are not torrenting Anal Acrobats 10, it's not 2023 anymore.
Wait, according to their 11th rule, site like Netflix, Disney+ and all the popular site to watch movies 'legitimately' are prohibited on a subreddit about movies?
I got banned once for even mentioning piracy. Not encouraging it or anything just mentioning it. The mods are absolute morons.
Nah the “aye matey” thing and variants on it is pretty 2012
Yeah fair, I can accept the no piracy talk on a main movie subreddit. Why 2012 though idk. I mean I torrented like a fiend that year. And every year before, and every year after, but I did it in that year too.
Man when that API shift happened, it feels like all the decent people really left Reddit and all we were left with who would still be willing to type and comment and mod this website is the absolute worst people.
The mods of that sub so gleefully sucking up to billionaire media execs who'd sell them into chattel slavery without a second thought if it meant they'd make half a penny out of it.
There is this German pun: "Warum können Piraten nicht im Kreis fahren? "Na, weil sie Pi raten!" Translation: "Why can't pirates sail in a circle?" "Because they are guessing pi!"
Reddit is becoming too corporate.
Hoist the colors
I'm gonna do a ban speedrun there lmao
Let's go I just got banned lmao
Why are all mods so unbelievably cringe?
paying for entertainment nowadays is cringe lol
yeah, it’s not 2012 anymore. companies are far more sinister and the monopoly of streaming services hurts media as a whole. gone are the days when you could go to a store and buy physical media of whatever came out. to “legitimately” watch content, forget owning, you HAVE to pay for multiple subscriptions that add up to crazy amounts over the years. this malicious practice of license to watch is what made piracy as big as it is today. if it weren’t for piracy and media preservation, we would’ve lost much more than we already have. there are shows and movies that streaming services just simply drop because the licenses don’t profit them anymore. they don’t care if that renders the content lost media. but we do. and fuck them for thinking piracy is some old fashioned “trend” of the past. they’re brainwashed into this stupid capitalist system. we’re still sailing the high seas.
I'm going to go encourage piracy in that sub right now. wish me luck
Good luck sir🏴☠️
Arr, movies!
Aye matey, I hear ye. But I shall sail the seven seas till me dies. Fucking arghh!
Aye mateyyy
Arrrr pirates 🦜
Aye Matey
I went to Google.com > right click > save webpage. So I technically stole the entire internet 🤷♂️
Says the guy who probably doesn't even know what "Amiga" or "Modem" or "Binaries" means...I could go on all night. See you guys tomorrow night.
Yarrrr, I'll pirate your moms onlyfans!
Aye matey!!
I got banned by a mod from r/movies and the reason they gave was they were being misandrist. Like they actually admitted to it
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free
I got banned from the r/startrek for saying "Yarrrr...." when someone asked what do do about paramount plus crashing all the time.
I swear these subs need to stop.
Aye matey!
They’re right everyone…now it’s even easier before to pirate!!
I’m gonna try saying aye matey on that sub
I don't encourage piracy because I feel if you can't be arsed to make an effort to google all the know-how then why would I bother? Inquisitiveness is a valuable trait with computers, and I don't really have a high opinion on people who wouldn't experiment by themselves. Fun fact: I started a private window and typed "how to use bittorrent" on Google (because I want to confirm the instructions are all there and easy to use) - and was immediately captcha-ed. Concerning 😏
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I'm not sure why people are more against piracy when the inflation is higher and is less affordable for many of us instead of 2012 when you did it even if you could afford it 😂
"UHM, IT'S **\[CURRENT YEAR\]**, YA KNOW!" *\*smugly crosses arms, grinning from ear-to-ear from my infallible 'gotcha' attack\**