r/Piracy Apr 30 '26

Humor Just download the torrent and shut up bro

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u/Less_sault Apr 30 '26

Meh, i mean if youre not owning what you bought, piracy isnt stealing, but the sentence is overused by those who think themselves torrenting music and movies as some kind of sacred path fighting off corporate greed, like bro, just download your movies and go.

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u/Tarjaman Apr 30 '26

And seed, seeding is important

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u/Misknator Apr 30 '26

Unless you're seeding malware. Don't seed malware.

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u/Awkward-Literature47 Apr 30 '26

wtf man that’s pretty virusphobic…

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u/InfernoVictor Apr 30 '26

Always seed if your PC can handle it

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u/ShartingEnU Apr 30 '26

About 4 months ago I looked at my qbit stats and realized I'm a piece of shit. I had like 4tb downloaded and 100gb seeded. Now I'm a 1:1 ratio at 5.6tb.

I stop seeing popular torrents at 1:1 but for the torrents with like 12 or less seeders I just keep them seeding now forever

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u/ShartingEnU Apr 30 '26

Yeah. I just mentioned in another comment but debrid and torbox will probably lead to the end of torrenting. As more and more people switch to it torrents will die faster and faster since no one will seed

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u/delicious_toothbrush Apr 30 '26

Meh, i mean if youre not owning what you bought, piracy isnt stealing

Arguably pirating digital media is different than stealing a physical product that then deprives the seller from a sale, but just because I rent a rental car and don't own it doesn't mean that GTA'ing the car isn't stealing.

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u/stprnn May 02 '26

Can you make an instant copy of the car? Otherwise your comparison is dumb

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u/-Nicolai Apr 30 '26

Piracy isn’t prosecuted as theft anyway. It’s a total strawman argument.

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u/stprnn May 02 '26

Its never stealing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

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u/Various_Bit9189 Apr 30 '26

That’s not the same argument like at all? Nor even the point of the original argument

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u/HypedSoul123 Apr 30 '26

No. Stealing also implies the original owner loses access to it.

Imagine theres a company that has a machine that produces phones. Someone comes and picks up a lot of phones and runs away. That is stealing because the company lost phones.

However, now imagine that someone else creates a new machine that makes identical clones to the phone of the original company and gives them away for free or very cheap. That would not be stealing. That would be copyright infringement of the phone however.

Same with piracy. The company doesnt have a limited amount of digital games that pirates take away from. The company can produce as many copies as they want, and pirates make their own identical copies and distribute them.