The "Linux based device" I was describing that I bought for $3 is basically a desktop PC in terms of functionality, maybe better. I guess these days most desktops handle 1080p60 H264 just fine but you don't have to go that far back to find ones that struggle. Plus it's the size of a McDonald's cheeseburger and uses maybe 10W of power.
Cooperate America doesn't ever seem to quibble over morality when it fucks the consumer. Why would I ever quibble over morality when I fuck them back, in my own small way?
I'm going to be honest, I can see the argument of "If you enjoy x you should purchase to encourage the creator to make more content." I'm not saying I don't pirate new content I enjoy, I'm just saying I see the logic behind the argument that you should support someone actively creating something you enjoy.
I generally actually pay for shit now, instead of pirating, despite a lifetime of piracy which I do not regret in the least. I get most of my vidya from Steam, I do not buy AAA bullshit (usually), and considering I generally spend less than $100 a year on any of it, just the "on any PC in the world I can have all my games just by clicking a button" thing makes it worthwhile.
While I get that, they'd have to be using a platform like Bandcamp where the artist gets paid fairly.
Maybe I would though. Suppose I could "steal" a car by just making a copy of it and the original owner would still have his "stolen" car. So why not do that?
I generally pay for a lot of games too. I also pirate a lot. I have some kind of autistic doomsday vault built up now that's a combination of digital, physical and pirated games that would take me ten lifetimes to play at the rate I play games.
There are certain protection levels to it the same way one uses VPNs & Proxies while torrenting too.
I wonder how viable it would be to rob a place while wearing a black man latex mask under your balaklava. That you were wearing a latex mask wouldn't be super obvious under the ski mask.
I threaten to steal my bosses truck all the time, already. In the same way we used to swap CD-Rs back in the day, and currently swap movies, so too would my friends and I copy each other's rides.
I love Gantz.For example, I recommend using this method as a protection level before the "stealing":
Even if caught, you might be ok as a "product of socio-economical condition" at best.
I was thinking about something similar the other day. If you're going to do something illegal while wearing a balaclava, why not confuse witnesses even further by adding a few centimeters of fake hair sticking out of it in the back?
One problem with that sentiment in modern times is: how do you actually reward the creator without supporting the mammoth system of endless middlemen skimming their percentage off the gross?
Reliably use FTP; if you're talking about a Windows computer. It's astonishing how bad FTP is on Windows; Hey Windows, when I double click on an FTP media file, I want it to play in a media player NOT IN FUCKING INTERNET EXPLORER, and you can't even change the behavior of this, even with CMD, not that you SHOULD FUCKING HAVE TO. Did absolute fucking retards come up with this? I do NOT want to use FileZilla for anything, I want it to be as easy as Nautilus/Dolphin on Linux; Double click media file, opens in media player. WHY MAKE IT SO FUCKING HARD.
Why do all you guys' parental figures have such a massive stick up their ass? My dad basically only exclusively showed me, my lil' brother and mom pirated content. It's how me and my lil' brother got into it and eventually even my mom as well, we're a pirate household. It's gotten turned back a bit since I bought Netflix (I pay for it, my parents use it (I was getting tired of them having to watch SD content bootlegs recorded in a cinema by a Motorola flip phone in Venezuela)).
I used my old PC parts to make a home server, worked pretty good; installed SSH/FTP, opened a port, and now I can stream my gay little shows at lunch break at school without having to rely on some third party's ass servers which go down every fucking millisecond. I also use it to host other things such as IRC, web pages or other hosted content. If I want a friend of mine to watch shows with me, I could give him an account on it and he'd be free to stream. So yeah, home made servers >>> Shitty HDMI sticks. (Although, Intels Compute stick would satisfy both worlds)
Being a child with absolutely zero money at all makes piracy the only option to even play things. I didn't even have a bank account until high school, all fiat. I should really look into piracy again with vidya; I'm running dry with paying for everything and then also my regular expenses. -- I do still pirate video content, because fuck having to look for some HQ BD's that won't reliably even fucking play on any fucking computer no matter the OS -- or even content that hasn't even been released anywhere but specific countries, specific streaming services or not at all.
YOU WILL BUY SONY'S SHITTY BLU-RAY PLAYER OR ELSE YOUR BD DICS WILL BE ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT PAPERWEIGHTS.
lol yeah that's a bit baffling to me, too. My folks would have told busybodies like that to stop wasting their time and go fuck themselves, especially over something so trivial. They certainly never would have bothered other parents if their kids were copying CDs or whatever. Who the fuck hadn't heard of a "mix tape" back in those days anyway? It's not like copying CDs was much different than that.
Use something like WSL where ftp acts pretty much like in any command line Linux.
