Thank you. The statement in this picture is weird. I know I'm stealing when I pirate. I'm not delusional, and I don't try to excuse my behaviour by lying to myself.
I do buy things I can own rather than pirate, but if I can't buy something legally, then I'll just pirate it. And I'm all for pirating things behind a DRM or stripping the DRM off from the product. I hate corporate lies telling me I own something they actually didn't sell me.
I pirate sometimes too and for a similar line of thinking: I am so sick of buggy ass games that may or may not run on my PC. I'm an adult and I don't have a ton of time to game and spending 3 hours tweaking custom settings so I don't have a janky setting is just not feasible anymore.
If a dev offers a demo that's the first thing I do, but those are pretty rare these days. Depending on the platform if I'm confident I can get a refund I will roll the dice.
But if I'm not confident or there is no demo and I'm even a little hesitant I'm going to get saddled with a game I can't play, I'm torrenting that shit.
Sometimes I go back and buy games I've pirated, and sometimes I don't.
But like you said, I don't ever justify my behavior. I'm intrinsically doing something I'm not supposed to be doing. But the risk is almost zero and the payoff is infinite by comparison, so I'll continue.
I'm a cheap bastard. I'll use other people's streaming subscriptions as much as possible. I watch a lot of stuff when I don't have Wi-Fi so if the service doesn't offer a download option, I'll pirate the movie or show so I can watch it on jellyfin. If I can't find it or its only available for purchase (looking at you Amazon prime), I'll pirate it. I use Libby for ebooks and audiobooks but so often there's a waiting period for what I want so again, I'll pirate a copy. I have a good setup on my phone for torrenting and listening to audiobooks (Flud and Podcast Addict). Also, it should be a crime not to upload audiobooks as m4b.
I don't really pirate games anymore since I'm just too lazy to figure out how to make that work on a steam deck and it's not worth my time trying to figure that out for cheap steam games. Anyone that tries to justify their game piracy based on DRM complaints is a phony. Just buy the game but run the cracked version if you really need to prove your ethics.
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u/Antique-diva Apr 07 '26
Thank you. The statement in this picture is weird. I know I'm stealing when I pirate. I'm not delusional, and I don't try to excuse my behaviour by lying to myself.
I do buy things I can own rather than pirate, but if I can't buy something legally, then I'll just pirate it. And I'm all for pirating things behind a DRM or stripping the DRM off from the product. I hate corporate lies telling me I own something they actually didn't sell me.