Piracy Really Can Be Justified 

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" ~ Newell

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

More and more publishers expect people to jump through ever steeper hoops and pay monthly subscriptions for a software LICENCE that they claim they can revoke at any time for any reason they deem, and they call pirates the thieves.

It's not piracy. It's Archiving off-line without being asked. It's a thankless Job!

You're forgetting that companies and services are shutting down and taking your paid for online content with them.

"Remember, pirating adobe software's is always morally correct."

Anytime I hear about, "programmers need to be paid to put food on the table", or "studios need to pay their staff", I remember how much money most of these companies have going in to them and how much of it does not actually go to the good people who do the actual work to make the game, movie, or what ever. I have zero sympathy for those companies. I do feel for the indie companies with very small teams just trying to make their way through the big shadows cast by the big companies, but they're the exception, not the rule, and usually are not the ones making thing hard on us to buy what they made.

Repeat after me! If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing!!!

To be fair, most "content" today isn't even worth pirating.

Whenever this issue comes up, I always mention the famous Gabe Newell quote: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. 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."

It's sarcastic to see WINDOWS KEY BUYING STORE sponsoring a PIRACY IS JUSTIFIED video . 😂😂😂

Fun fact shortly after metallica sued napster I downloaded every single song they ever made, burned them to dozens of DVDs and handed them out at college for free on the bargain that they would in turn upload and seed all of it for at least a month. I'd like to think I costed them at least a few $$$. Last I checked at least a few of those torrents are still alive and active.

I'm a pirate, always have been. Having nothing to eat but hardtack while out at sea and getting scurvy from lack of vitamin C has been a problem though.

Some companies are literally asking people to pirate their stuff because of their terrible business practices.

Considering what Sony pulled with Discovery, Piracy of Sony is justified.

the resolution restriction and the limit of users watching at the same time is what made me stop paying Netflix. They're basically charging more for less

I remember buying PC Prince of Persia 2008. It didn't have DRM. You could even play the game without the disc. It was really awesome to buy the game and get playing without worrying about DRM stuff or having to get the crack.

One of the funnest lines I heard when people were on Limewire downloading music and software was, you're stealing don't you feel bad about that?, you wouldn't steal a car would you? and the response was if I could there would be two Jaguars and a Porsche out in the driveway.

It's just baffling how it's come to this. How stupid humanity is, to keep giving away what little control they've had in the consumer space, in exchange for minor convenience. If you are a pirate, yesterday, today, tomorrow, I couldn't care less at this point. These companies are the worst pirates of all.

I have zero scruples about ripping off companies that make a practice of ripping off their customers.

I have no qualms about pirating. The lack of DRM on music can be directly attributed to the rampant pirating of music in the early 2K's. Most folks forget how insane the DRM was in the late 90's early 2K's. Up to and including lockouts from playing a CD on a PC. I stopped giving a single shit about pirating movies and TV shows after back in 2010, I think, I was on Netflix. I watched the first few episodes of Stargate Atlantis, logged off, then back on later that week and it was gone.........This crap has only gotten worse over time. Now not only does content move to each damn studio having their own service but now they outright remove content never to be seen again. Disney is the worst offender but WB is right up there. Enter: Plex. Part of Plex was the afore mentioned issue, but also when you have 5K DVD/BR's filling an entire damn room, it becomes an issue. I have so much content at this point it is borderline impossible I will ever watch it all. That said it isn't as if I haven't given all the studios a huge chunk of cash.....I sat down and crunch the numbers on the amount of money I've spent on VHS, DVD, BR, and Amazon digital content over the decades. (That I all buy and rip.) Not kidding when I say I could by a BMW. It is easily midrange 5 figures. All I know is I have content that will probably never see the light of day ever again. pepe le pew is a perfect example.....I agree with folks who HATE the behavior of this character. But put a disclaimer on it, not remove it outright. There are MANY other examples of this where content just goes poof. Or the director or studio feels the need to dick with a release putting out a new edition. *coughs*Lucas*coughs* I consider my Plex system as much archive as entertainment center. And frankly it's the equivalent of a baseball card collection. Do I need 8000 movies and 600 TV shows spanning from Roundhay Garden Scene of 1888 to The Velveteen Rabbit released a few months back? (At about 68TB of space being consumed.) No. I just like the idea I have the equivalent of Star Trek's LCARS. It has EVERYTHING. So if someday I'm watching something on RU-vid and they reference an obscure movie.....go to Plex....have it. Watch it. Perfect example of this: Hawk Jones.....I went out and purchased the DVD and ripped it. I now have this unique movie in my collection. It looks like the content owner is burning DVD's on a per order basis. Someday they will stop that and that content may no longer be available. But also: I cut the cord because of paying for content I could not give a single crap about. Now that all these studios have taken their ball and gone and built their own streaming service....we are EXACTLY back in the same situation as cable. I'm not spending $15 a month on A single service just to get one show. Where the combined total would be fast approaching $100 a month for 25 shows I want to watch on and off. No. When Netflix was licensing from everyone I could subscribe to that service and have everything.........No longer. So these studios, outside Sony who smartly stayed out of these streaming BS, can all F right off.

What I hate is DRM, If I buy a game on Steam or Epic I should be able to simply play it right away after downloading instead of being forced into Rockstar's launcher, Ubisoft's Launchet, EA's Launcher, etc... Pirate's will have a better experience than people like me who actually pay to use it Edit: I posted this before the video was over lol I didnt know if you were going to mention it or not

As a Linux user I'm perfectly happy to pirate photoshop until Adobe give me the official option to pay for it.

When pirating content is easier and more beneficial for users than paying for content, the industry seriously needs to pause, look at its methodology, come together and resolve the situation.

Yes! This is so on point! Take notes big tech! You're shooting yourself in the foot by making software/media so inaccessible. Another reason to pirate content is when media simply isn't available for purchase in your region, just because. It's so annoying.

I'm usually anti piracy, But with the crap companies are pulling lately such as Sony just on a whim taking away peoples purchased movies etc, Along with Lionsgate (in the UK) suddenly deciding they're going to pull their service BUT only in the UK its getting annoying, People WANT to pay and support the industry but they're making it very hard to and wonder why people resort to piracy..

I cut the cord to flow tv years ago, and now I'm cutting streaming services off too. I refuse to pay all that money, just to sit and wait for an episode each week. STREAMING = BINGE WATCHING.

Honestly so many companies are getting very greedy implementing a monthly payment system for all of their products .. there’s an engineering software that was 300$ one time payment when it’s first launched,, now it adopted the monthly bs system and it will cost users 2700$/year so yeah piracy is justified against corporate greed .

A reasonable analysis, I agree on most points. On music specifically, in my humble opinion, RU-vid, with all of its own perks, is what actually killed music piracy. During iPod's heyday, many users just download mp3 for free and copied them to their iPod (or cheaper MP3 player), rather than buying from Apple. Currently, the quickest cheapest (and legal) way to listen and share a Metallica song is searching on RU-vid and listening, which is quite ironic in hindsight. There are other music streaming services, of course, but that's mostly because they offer better UX, no ads, high sound quality and, most importantly, affordable prices and all music anyone could listen.

There's another point about piracy you only briefly mentioned. People have to believe the price is fair, or even a bargain. If they feel they are being ripped off, they are much more likely to turn to the high seas. DRM even comes into play with this, because if someone purchases a product, then they will want to use that product on all of their devices. If they can't do that, then it's likely they'll feel ripped off, and once again the temptation is to turn to piracy to solve their problems.

I had a drum virtual instrument for making music, and the DRM was so annoying that I ended up pirating software I already bought and paid for just to use it. There have been several instances with single player games requiring constant online checks, where I bought the game on Steam or wherever, and then just installed a crack as if I had pirated it so that the game would actually be playable above 20 fps, or for older games so I could play on a widescreen. Then don't even get me started on Amazon and Sony rescinding movies from users that were PURCHASED because their contract with the publisher ended, and they didn't give a refund. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

I'm 50 and I still pirate whatever I can.

People pirate video games because more and more they're being made to where you can only play them online. But the pirated version of the game has a patch within the crack that makes it so you can play the game at any time. Even for some games that I've purchased that otherwise require an internet connection for a single player game, I cracked them so that I can play them should I ever end up without an internet connection. Something that happens fairly often in my home state due to hurricanes and storms.

As a veteran of the Napster days, "Welcome to the party."

Blu-Rays are the worst kind of spitting in your paying customer's face scam I've ever seen. The audacity to take your most valuable paying customers, the ones who've paid by far the most, and force ads and anti-piracy threats down their throat and then forcing them to use a very specific player and a very specific display is just mind blowing. The file size of Blu-Ray files by itself is probably enough of a copy-protection mechanism when it comes to giving it to friends and family. But it's like they just laugh at you for being so stupid to buy a legal copy instead of pirating it.

People should start cancelling their streaming services that gouge. Thats the only way theyre going to learn a lesson. Boycott. Software companies needs to stop gouging. Again boycott. Dont buy from them.

Spot on! Companies forget why they exist - it's because of their customers, not despite them.

Of course picacy is about money. The money the producers imagine they are loosing from lost sales. If people can't afford a product, or are finding it too expensive, they will look for less expensive options. Or find a way to pay less...

This reminds me of why I download RU-vid videos. There is too much disruptive advertising that RU-vid inserts into the videos. AND, some channels...cough, cough... embed ads into their videos which can be easily edited out. A bit of double dipping going on here. I like certain content which I download automatically with a virtual machine running 24/7 on my NAS which has a Subscriptions feature that skips the YT ads. And before you think I'm just some cheapskate, I send several hundred dollars to the publishers of my favourite YT channels and "free" software developers every year. This way, I know that my money goes to those people I want it to go to without a big chunk taken out by a third party.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing. If you already paid for something and the companies take it away, piracy isn't stealing, it's reclamation. If what you want is literally not available for purchase, then it's not a lost sale if you pirate it. I do tend to pay for things, but if companies screw around - take things away, not sell it at all, etc - I have absolutely no issue pirating things. As Gabe Newell famously said, piracy is a service problem. And the service has been steadily getting worse over the past few years. I also _never_ subscribe to any content delivery services. No Netflix, no Spotify, nothing of that nature. I'm not going to pay these companies a monthly fee only to have absolutely nothing to show for it when I end my subscription. I buy things to own them, I'm not interested in rentals.

Piracy will never be completely elminated

Advocate for physical AND DRM-Free digital (like GoG) under the banner of *ownership* The Digital Rights Act needs to be enhanced to allow forever full ownership options.

That's 300% right ! Let's take 3 use cases: 1st one: videos (dvd, bluray). I used to have (and still do) a massive collection of +1000 dvds, and several hundreds of blurays. I absolutely wanted and adored having those physical discs that i can use anytime i want, and i also wanted to give money to the industry, so they can keep on making all those movies i adore. The problem ? Despite the manufacturing prices getting lower and lower, the industry kept charging a premium price. Then, second problem, i often watch my movies in 2 different languages other than english, depending who is around (foreign friends, foreign family members, etc ). So, as a movies fan, i was paying a premium for those discs, and those discs were basically worthless : no bonus, no nothing, and the worst part, weak-ass audio tracks. If you buy a movie for , eg, the italien, or French market, as a fan, who's paying a premium price, you should have the right to expect to find a , say, french, italien, etc 7.1 dolby atmos, master audio, etc. But no. For example, a french dude will buy a movie for the french are, and it will come with a absolutely fabulous English audio track, and a miserably poor french track. Absolutely 0 efforts made by the industry, for the fans. 2-Then, you have the video games. Up until 2005-ish, video games were about passion, devotion, etc, from a bunch of passionate devs, whose mission was creating the best game as possible, despite all the technical challenges. Everything was made, to please the gamer. Then, after the iphone was released, some studios, like the candy crush makers, were making hundreds of millions, each month, and it started attracting the venture/hedge/capital/etc vultures, with their suitcases full of trillions, and their hoards of money thirsty leeches, who don't understand, don't like, and d don't give a crap about video games, and only care about money. And suddenly, all big games started being made around.... MONETIZATION. It no longer matters, how fun, interesting, long, etc, the game is going to be, if doesn't matter if the characters are dumb and the main story is crap, and the world size was divided by 10... all that matters, is making sure the game will be filled with microtransactions, in-game purchases, season passes, etc, so the gamer not only pays 70 bucks for his game, but will have to use the credit card and spend another 300...800...or even $3000, in order to get the 'full experience'. You loved a racing game like gran turismo 6, on the ps3, with 750 premium cars and at least 300 or 400 'less premium' models ? Welcome to the new gran turismo 7, with only 410 cars, where a gamer will have to win a race 100 times, just to earn 1 or 2 $ worth of in-game cash, when a single 'optional' car the gamer can buy with real money can readily cost 10, 20 or even $40 (real $). Fuk those games, fuk this industry. 3- streaming. After countless advertisings, i finally decided to give netflix a try, as my first legit 'streaming' experience. I said to myself, screw it, i will pay 10 or 15 bucks, if i manage to watch like 10 movies each month, 10 -15 bucks will be fine. There are a ton of movies that i absolutely adore, from the 80s, 90s, 00s... all the old classics, etc... it's gonna be cool. So i enter my netflix card number, and voila, I'm subscribed. I search 'shrek' --> only number 2 was available. I search 'Sylvester Stallone ', or some of his movies --> almost 0 found I search actors like Schwarzenegger, jason statam, etc --> little to nothing found I search tens and tens of movies. 1 here...1 there... Maybe old series like the old MacGyver? Maybe Stargate Sg-1 ? Prison break ? Dr house ? And many others : basically nothing. I guess, netflix only has a few big titles, to attract the stupid idiot (like myself)... a few series... and that's all. Add to all that, the woke cancer, where it is impossible , eg, to make a movie or cartoon for 3yo kids, without inserting 2 dudes kissing and rubbing eachother's cocks , or a kid and his 2 no-binary/lesbian moms , who must buy a sex toy for their asexual neighbor's 2yo adopted non-binary/tranz baby birthday. Physical discs... video games... streaming... I refuse to give 1 single dime to this awful industry. I want to watch a movie ? In just a few minutes or seconds, websites like 'search extreme + download + movie', you can download up to .iso bluray images, 3d movies, everything ! Regarding the video games, there are over 20'000 titles, from older consoles like dreamcast, psvita, snes, genesis, atari, nes, n64, etc etc, where people can download a pc, android or even Linux emulators, to run all those games(roms), that we can download 1 by one, or even 2gygabytes packs with hundreds of titles. If i want to watch some series, there are plenty of websites that offer that kind of services, for free k just a few ads here and there). The gaming and video industry has 0 moral, 0 scruples, 0 dignity, 0 anything, regarding us, consummers/buyers. We are just a bunch of stupid walking wallets. Why should we care about them ? Why should we feel bad, about downloading a game or movie ? Let's not forget, since the internet became faster and faster, the industry wettest dreams are : making everything 100% digital/cloud/subscription based... where the user owns absolutely NOTHING. unfortunately, mainly because of the gen-z, who want everything, not next month, not next week or day, not tomorrow, but TODAY, who don't want to move their ass and go buy their game from a local store, and prefer getting everything online, because of them, the digital sales in video games were only a few %, a few years ago... today, it's already over 60%. It's just a matter of 2 or 3 years, before people can no longer buy a physical game, from the local store. The more the digital sales grows, the less physical games will be made and sold. By 2026, the digital games sales could be over 90%... and the next playstation 6 and Xbox 2 could be ... 100% digital- only ! When i buy a game, like dead Island 2, farcry 6, god of war ragnarok, etc, on the ps5, i buy the physical version. But while i buy the physical version, probably 70 gamers bought it from the online store. It's a list combat. At least, by downloading my stuff, i won't be giving my money to those greedy companies. People shouldn't feel bad for downloading a fukin movie for free. Shit, when apple sells a $1200 iPhone, that probably only cost them $200 or less to manufacture, package, etc, where are the scruples, the morals, etc ? You can even expand the storage capacity, by adding a $20 sdxc card ! When the industry charges a premium for a device, talks about climate change and how they save the planet by not including a charger... but then, only offer a 24, or even 12 months warranty, where are the morals, the dignity, the respect, the scruples ? The industry wants to do something for the planet ? Why not starting by.... offering a standard 5 or 6 years warranties ? How many billions of electronic devices are thrown away, because the 24 or 12 months warranty was over, and it was too expensive to repair off warranty... with a 5 or 6 years warranty, those billions of devices would have a much longer life...! Which, of course, the industry doesn't want ! Yes, it's time for people to STOP feeling bad about downloading and watching a 'pirated' movie... or downloading and playing a +20yo video game ! The entertainment industry doesn't respect and doesn't give a phuq about us, so... why should people care ! For the 2 people who will read my rant, thank you, prayers will go to you, intelligent people !

"Take what you can, give nothing back."

also legit gamers suffering because of Denuvo, by eating performances, while pirates enjoying games with full performance

Who never had a tape cassette with a recording from a friends vinyl LP back in the day?

If you wanted 1 song all you had to do is buy a 45 for .99 cent and play it on your record player.

In the country that I currently live in all streaming services are geo blocked or has a seriously limited catalog. What choice do I have if not piracy?

I will never understand why companies keep trying to protect their products with DRM and such, only to frustrate their actually paying customers, when it's been clear as day for ages that there'll always be people who'll make a great effort to and ultimately succeed to crack these mechanisms. It's more difficult with the always-online scheme, sure, but that's also the ultimate turn-off from buying such products. If I can't buy a game free from DRM and always-online garbage, I simply won't buy it. There's more than enough games to play. I'll watch playthroughs on RU-vid before supporting such anti-consumer tactics. If I pay for something that's not a rental or a subscription, it'll be mine to own, and do with it whatever I want. And the argument that piracy takes food off the tables of people who make these products, I laugh at that. Almost all of these people are underpaid and overworked at the expense of their greedy overlords.

Netflix be like is this man threating us

Funny after watching this video I just got an email from Amazon prime that they are going to place ads to their shows. To cut costs. Unless I wanted to pay $2.99 a month for ad free streaming. Thank you very much.

Proud pirate from the BBS days and IRC channels. #Neverstop.

according to one person at Microsoft 'windows 95 wouldnt have been as popular if it werent for pirates'

*my hat off for naming Louis Rossmann because he's been covering this many times*

What organizations don't understand is that pirates are NOT going to buy your product, and that's why they pirate it. This could be treated with: 1) Availability of free "demo" versions of the products. 2) Purchasing in installments - people will glady pay 5 dollars/month for a 50 bucks game if they can pay it in 10 times, plus companies can charge more without losing market. 3) Product ownership for the costumer. 4) Actual tech support for the product - right to repair.

I want games, music, and software that comes on physical media that I have the rights to use forever.

Once my friend bought a game CD, but we never managed to get it to work. Solution was to download a cracked version of this game and after unpacking it worked on the first time. No more buying broken BS.

More and More companies want memberships NOT ownership. You own no movies.. You buy a movie.. DOWNLOADING IT in 2k/4k/8k Nearly impossible without going through hoops. Movies - Mentioned Above Music - Same thing Games - Now the same.. How DO YOU take your ownership from STEAM if you buy a game.. You cannot Book EVEN FREE TV now has DRM Sadtly Digital ownership is harder now than ever. WITHOUT the behaviors of the past we would have lost everything prior to PC Atari, C64, Apple II, Every MESS and MAME, Consoles, 99.9% which isn't only in Public Domain due to no longer being supported but no longer on running hardware. Its sad but early pirates became the achirvists and Data horders that made it an Archive.

In Africa, Paying in dollars just sounds bad to people, and PIRACY is the way to go

How about Sony giving the finger to the customers who PAID for TV series and are removing it from their servers.

I bought Cubase 5 legit and I have the dongle somehwere but I just can't find it. So I use a cracked version of Cubase 5, I feel totally justified doing that.

Piracy is a business like any other, it's just that customers don't wish to be served

well, if I pay to watch it in theater... then once the digital copy is available, ill download it, rewatched it and enjoy it. No questions ask! hahaha

Sailing the Sevens Seas is a must today. DRM, Denuvo,, etc. We quit cables a millions years ago because of their pricing and all, yet, the streaming companies are doing the same as cable and give another reason to sail the Seven Seas! Yes, I do pirate games, especially the one with DRMs, but mostly I downloads games to try them and if I don't like them, I just delete them and voilà! No money wasted! And also, sailing the Seven Seas is a must, especially for media preservations! Lots of physical medias are on the way out, sadly. And one more thing, everything is becoming a subscription service.. "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" -WEF

3:09 Actually, I can. As I had a Creative Labs MP3 player which was roughly the same size, with 4 times the storage, and none of the draconian lockdowns that Apple garbage had. So, ya...........

Steam ended support for xp and vista in 2019 and is set to end support for win 7 and 8 in 2024 meaning at some point even games designed for those os will stop working on steam without alot of backend work on the end users part.

The other thing that irritates me with Netflix, when you're browsing for something to watch it's just the same 10 shows over and over in a different order.

I used to love those old commercials where they were like, "You wouldn't steal a car!" I was like, "You don't know me motherfucker!" The fact of the matter is, I look at digital content as completely valueless. If I can make a copy of something without paying for it, why would I trade money for it? I would rather spend that money on hardware. I can spend my money on terabytes of hard drives, and network attached devices to view my curated content. I can watch all of the content that people pay money for, while not paying a dime for any of it. I can listen to any music I want, including things on release day in FLAC quality, all without actually spending money on it. I can play whatever video games I want, read all of the new books that come out, etc. In the past 25+ years that I have been using some method of piracy - I have probably saved about as much money as I spent to buy my house. If I could obtain physical objects with the same ease and impunity, I absolutely would do it. All of that being said, I am not anti-capitalistic. I'm just not going to spend money on streaming services, just like I don't spend money on cloud storage, or anything else that's ostensibly just using someone else's computer. In the current era, where i can have a laptop with a multi-terabyte nvme drive in it or a terabyte MicroSD card in a phone, the idea of using streaming for inferior content seems pretty stupid; and especially when you add the cost component of it.

" 'Piracy', for lack of a better word, is GOOD. Piracy is right, piracy works. Piracy clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Piracy, in all of its forms; piracy to save a couple of bucks, piracy for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And piracy, you mark my words, will not only save all of us embattled tech enthusiasts, but the major malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much." -Long John Gekko

DRM has done more to promote piracy than the original Napster ever did.

I still remember when Netflix sent DVDs out. I wonder how many people ripped them before sending them back.

Great points all around, I buy all my audio plugins now, however, I have had multiple times where even the audio plugins i bought were restricted by some ilok activation issue or moving computers and only having a limited amount of activations that i can no longer transfer to a new computer and have to have some old non exisitent company deactivate them (still waiting months/years later). So then I yarged them. Waves is especially good at making users want to pirate their software. Plenty of other examples where activation problems occur all across video/audio/creative software.

I love this kinds of videos too Rich. Very good stuff.

Don't want people to pirate? Then *allow people to download it and save it on their computer* Why would I prefer paying for a service that cuts off my ability to watch the stuff I love when copyright expired or when I'm offline if piracy gives me a capability to save what I love forever?

I dabbled with piracy, well, purchasing a cheap CD-ROM from a seller, who got it from a pirate. I was overseas and didn't have access to any stores for purchasing said game. I came back home a few months later, and ordered myself a legitimate copy. I thought so highly of the game, I also ordered copies for my brothers and my father. That old CD-ROM still serves as a coaster on my computer desk... And the CD keys in the legit copies worked on Steam when I didn't have an optical drive on my new computers.

Then you jump through all the hoops, have all the accounts and your bank being drained every month. you purchase a game or movie, then upstream the vender silently deletes it off your system and makes it unavailable to you, with no notice or refund. You know who doesn't have to deal with that? Or, you pay several thousand dollars as a business expense for a professional software suite. Your computer crashes in a couple years, and you need to reinstall only to find the vender will not honor your purchase agreement, having retroactively terminated the contract without your consent. Again, who does not have to deal with that? They are turning good paying customers into pirates with draconian anticonsumer practices.

The limiting to 720p is absolutely aggregious. Also i kind of get get why bitrate has to be lower, but stop offering a 4k premium teir that looks like garbage. Either don't offer something thats supposed to look great but doesnt, or actually give it to people for paying extra. What really rounds out the failure that is streaming services, is the people making movies and shows are getting treated way worse now. Makes it pretty hard to feel like I should carry ALL of the guilt of not wanting to give my money to the streaming service, and supposedly the creators by extension. They don't even get statistics on their own shows. How are they supposed to know if they are getting paid fairly...

If software companies didn't charge an arm and a leg I wouldn't be watching this on a pirated Windows!

If downloading RU-vid videos to my system and putting them on my phone is piracy, then guilty as charged.

Recently alot of great animes (one punch man, code geass, Magi: simbad , and more) got licensed at Hulu and no where else. Hulu does not stream to New Zealand where I live. So they basically naught the license and made it completely unavailable for me legitimately. I wonder why piracy is getting more pronounce 🤔

I sail the seven seas and have no shame about it. I won't give my hard earned money for a worse experience.

if buying is not owning then piracy is not theft.

My country stopped importing Blu-rays, DVDs and comics to sell at the shops. 😢 most of the good old TV shows was not for sale in the shops even when they were still selling DVDs. If companies like elephant films and fabulous films open a Blu-ray shop in my country and truly marketed themselves correctly. I think they will do very well. Tons of people miss the good TV shows from the 80s and 90s. Lots of people don't like today's television.(In South Africa) Interesting video

You didn't mention Disney's "Fast Play" that they used to put on their DVD's. It was unskippable trailers and ads that would automatically play before your movie as soon as you put the disk in.

Way back in the day I used to Pirate music from the Pirate bay(Which makes me a real pirate). I cant justify it, but I will say the 2-3 giant corps that controlled music never let us hear music from other countries like Germany, Netherlands and even England as well as other places. Only specific artists would be allowed to be heard or bought. Genres like psychedelic were rare to buy. Today it is easier to go to Discogs and just buy it.

There is a big difference between illegal copying of films and programs and what (Louis Rossmann) talks about which is (Netflix)

I haven't owned a television in 9 years and I haven't missed it for a minute. I get the shows I want in "more convenient ways."

WinRar is one of the best examples of a company understanding piracy.

Merry Christmas

My take is this: I buy an album in 1975 and the artist gets paid. In 1977, I buy the same album, on 8 track, and the artist gets paid... again, but hasn't done anything extra. Here come the 80's and I buy the same thing on cassette, the 90's cd, etc. I have paid the same artists 4 or 5 times for the same thing on different formats. Screw that. I don't pay any more.

It's almost as if a company's lust for greed & infinite profit shouldn't be taken out on its paying customers.

I download a pirated copy of every game I buy. I don't want my games library to be tied to an online DRM service like Steam, Ubisoft Connect, Epic etc. Also something to remember about Valve is that they are the only company who have their own games store that don't also have games on other services, the only place you can buy any Valve game is on Steam. People say they don't want exclusivity to a storefront but have no problem with that when it is Valve and Steam.

Unlike the music industry. The video/film industry will not consolidate, so all media is available for a fix monthly cost. There are too many players, which all want to serve exclusive content. The legal work around is to only pay for one streaming service, and then switch every month. But then it starts to become easier to pirate. Especially if you just need to see that one episode / movie.

I'm downloading repacked games, portable software, and movie mkv files of all my legally owned content/software. 1. Game repacks are lighter to download, don't need redownloading, and are super easy to install/uninstall and debloated. 2. Portable software doesn't need installation, activation, and uninstallation is easy to move, backup, and reset. 3. Movies/music are playable on all devices, no need for the internet, easy to to move and backup.

I used to mostly pirate video games. Now that my financial situation is better and Steam is awesome, I rarely do. But recently I was literally about to buy Resident Evil 4 Remake, only to discover they put Denuvo in it. I flat out refuse to pay for the "privilege" of having that garbage on my computer. Hard pass.

10:46 we all remember the spore incident

In the UK the BBC prosecutes those that watch live TV without a licence!

Wow so true! I'm a collector of CD's I have about 4,000 I like to own my stuff but to buy them now with Brexit shipping VAT etc a £7 CD turns out to be over '£30 I don't download my music as I'm a collector..... BUT I don't buy them as much as I did.......and recording my favourite music on my boombox with the record button I can so relate ha ha they have been trying this for years stopping us recording a tv program PC games CD copy protected etc greed gets them nowhere ....great video !!!!

when netflix started taking some shows out of their system i went back to pirating. Can't be paying multiple services just to watch an specific show. I stopped supporting them. Best decision ever.

Short answer: YES. Copyright for the longest time was more or less an agreement between creators and consumers that "we will buy this but then we will own it and after14 years, we can copy it to our heart's content." That was the law and it was fine that way. But big money interests bought a LOT of laws in their favor. What do we have now? PERMANENT copyright because it's for a time after the death of the creator -- but most "creators" are immortal corporations. And thanks to the legality of cop protection, we will lose access even IF we manage to experience an expired copyright. And it gets worse still! The DMCA makes things insanely bad and abusive. "Fair use" is not a thing we can claim or use in defense when online services decide our content MIGHT be infringing in some way. We now have complete breech of the copyright agreement entirely. And worse, we suffer abuse even with our legally "owned" materials. And all of these subscription services where you "buy" a thing... a movie, a song, a game? whatever, when the companies decide to no longer support a thing it DISAPPEARS completely with no recourse for the buyer. Sadly we have to create and support legal pushback and we have to BOYCOTT the hell out of companies (which is currently all of them) who abuse the consumers. We have to become angry to restore our rights and to preserve the arts! As things are today, the ARTS ARE BEING DESTROYED. That's a huge loss to humanity.