This is exceedingly rare, but I would buy it and then share it with the world for free.
I never pay Capitalist corps/people unless pressured to a corner (most groceries, loans etc). I know they cheat, steal and lie - pretty much 24/7 - as their ‘free market’ gospel dictates, so any support for such a selfish/psychopathic organization are like shooting my self in the foot.
Intellectual ‘property’ is a special anti-intellectual joke that have emerged inside an existing Capitalist dystopia where everyone have to fight everyone else for their lives. So suddenly, some Capitalist smuck could whistle a tune, declare that sequence of sounds as “MY PROPERTY” and then - through violence! - everyone around the world have to pay this moron for the sequence of sounds. It doesn’t get much more dumb than that. We even see cities ‘protect’ their landmarks, so a f’ing photo is illegal without paying up, copyright for well known everyday things, and so on. It is incredibly easy to find insane examples. It’s all a race to the bottom, sigh… Oc, Capitalism have zero to do with ‘free markets’, and everything to do with warring/exploitation/protectionism - but all corps will always exploit.
Unfortunately, Capitalism runs on pure scarcity, so we can’t have surplus objects that can just be copied, tsk tsk, what disorder !! And of cause, if one lives in such a crappy backwards society, then everyone HAVE to fight for data that can be copyrighted, data that could otherwise be copied a gazillion times for everyones joy. So, Instead of free access to all that can be freely copied/enjoyed, we have capitalist silo’s of ‘property’, where everyone are forced to pay up to a conglomerate of capitalist cancer-like entities that will go to any length - even jailing people that refuse that violent/ridiculous property nonsense. No no, for propertarians, it’s better to slam everyone in the world with laws/threats of harm, to invade peoples privacy, and to have a whole multi-trillion business market, and an insane amount of law resources constantly working to keep this joke of a principle running. It all arose from out of that flawed premise of everyone fighting everyone else… Inefficient, stupid, and all just an unnecessary emergent artifact on top of the dumbest ideology the oligarchs ever invented.
Tldr; I’m also against intellectual monopolies
I completely agree with what you’re saying.
It’s the morons among us that can’t accept they’ve been taken for a ride.
Take it as a challenge and waste inordinate amounts of time finding it ‘free’!
And then seed it to torrent
Torrent stuck at 99.9% :/
The only seed has 99.9% availability, I am doubting anyone actually has 100%.
have you tried staring at the torrent? if it doesnt work try staring longer
I stared at it as if it were scp-173, nothing happened.
Maybe I need stare at SCP-96 and use it as the fuel for my modem instead.
That’s a special kind of pain.
“What do you mean ‘force start’ isn’t doing anything?!?!”
It honestly depends. If it’s something I was on the fence about AND it’s not absurdly overpriced, probably just buy. Or put on a Steam wishlist for some future sale while I keep trying to find elsewhere.
Ive had decent luck watching things stuck at 99.9% and having it work fine. Sometimes it’s just an .nfo file or the like thats missing.
Omg I might have done that to some people! Never realised!
Previously I skipped downloadning the “unneccesary” files like .nfo og random .txt, or subtitles for other languages.
Never considered that would result in incomplete downloads for others.
There’s also a chance that the seeder finished the download but their software didn’t actually finished processing the files. Sometimes just copying the content to another location (to be safe) and renaming the “part” files to its intended file extension is all you need to do.
Which torrent is it
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
Like its not one track, its separate files for each chapter, so I can still listen to most of it. only like two chapters have missing bits and is kinda semi-corrupted due to the missing bits.
Kinda feel like getting Audible because then its kinda unlimited access and I’ll binge through a a few books, then cancel when I’m out of content (that I’m interested in) lol. I don’t think I’ll have use for the audio files after listening through it once.
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
I don’t know; I’ve seen the internet pull some weird shit out of its back pocket
libro.fm has a nice drm free audio bookshop if you change your mind and do want to keep the audio files afterwards
Fuck that, don’t use audible! What is the title / author?
Libraries are generally pretty good for books and audiobooks. Get stuff through libby or hoopla.
Same. For me it’s not about the money but the service and experience. I wouldn’t mind buying a blu-ray and ripping it but I’m not going to subscribe to some service, log in, and use their app to watch a single show or movie because I find that whole process to be a chore.
A chore, frequently an obnoxious experience and lastly a trap.
I don’t want a promise of ‘maybe we will let you view this until we capriciously remove it from our service’. Either I own what I pay for or no deal. I try to heavily prioritize GOG over Steam and while I have some streaming services in my orbit (not my choices) I always have ‘backup’ copies of my own.
I have spent 3 hours once to find this with a reasonable resolution, bitrate and subtitles (the subs were the hard part):
Same issue with “FUTURE WAR 198X年”.
In the end I got a copy from archive.org with hardsubbed english subsThat’s how we do it! Take no prisoners and don’t accept substandard booty.
Yarrrr!
Piracy is my main resort been doing it so long. After HD-DVD lost I was done buying media. Don’t get me wrong I still pirated before that but it was more renting and ripping DVDs.
It’s never really about the price, it’s about the convenience.
Yeah, sometimes I go so far to buy a game on Steam that got given away for free by Epic. EGS has the tendency to log me out all the time (maybe too many login across a bunch of devices) which annoys the heck out of me.
I agree, I choose the option that gives me the best experience. That is normally an unofficial option. For instance, I want to choose the tv shows accessible for my daughter. I want her to have access to tv shows from all over the world. There is no official service that offers that.
I am far too poor to afford to buy shit. If I can’t pirate shit, I just do without. The only thing I pay for is music because they did it right. Mostly the same music on every platform. None of this exclusive bullshit. Plus it’s easier than piracy. Plus I listen to so much music
so, usually if i can’t find it through direct download or torrent, i might try asking around, or looking in open directories even, and if all of that fails i lay awake at night Really bothered
Depends. Sometimes I’ll give it up all together. If I think it’s worth it I’ll buy it. Other times I thought it wouldn’t be worth it and I pirate it and then I end up buying it afterwards. Other times I just wait for a steep discount/sale.
Depends on how much I want it.
For music, I buy the CDs (if I can) to support the artist.
But I also recently ripped my whole spotify playlist.For other types of media, if it’s not in the quality I want, and it’s reasonable in price, I’ll pay it.
Then I’ll rip it and put it in my library.Depends on what it is… if it’s a movie that I can’t find, I’ll usually just wait until an ethical version shows up somewhere later.
If it’s a research paper or a book I’m looking for, though, I take paywalling as a personal insult - I usually go to extreme lengths to obtain it, and I usually do get it.
I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.
The latter, because I don’t have money
It is very infrequent that I find myself needing a form of entertainment. Generally, when I am unable to find it on the high seas, it is entirely unobtainable through legal channels.
It is far more frequent that I find myself purchasing a thing I have previously pirated.
If something is worth paying for I just do that up-front. (Outside of some exceptions where I actively don’t want to support the creator or license holder)
I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.
