I download albums (through piracy or not) and add them to my modest mp3 collection the same way I used to buy CDs — once in a while when it seems like a good idea. If there’s an album I don’t think is worth listening to again, I delete it.

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Your first ever download?

I too had a ghetto blaster, which must sound pretty weird to people young enough to have never heard of them.

True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

Not everyone interested in piracy acquires all of their games that way, and even those who do sometimes buy them on Steam anyway — for example to support the publisher. Not that Gog isn’t better, but Steam obviously has most of the market.

This is a piracy-oriented community, so …

So there tend to be a fair number of gamers around.

If you’re willing to ask even this ridiculous question here in public, I’m not sure why you’d need to go anywhere else.

There ought to be some kind of 2016 css subset that everyone sticks to and then we can reconsider maybe updating it to include any newer stuff that’s absolutely essential once every ten years.

Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.

Strange how Denuvo being cracked doesn’t change how I feel about it at all.

Easy. Never run windows.

It’s not the rate, it’s the ratio.

https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging/

The majority of censorship is self-censorship

I’m sure there’s still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.

My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.

This looks a lot like they’re just trying to squeeze a bit more public relations juice out of last year’s news.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=copyright

One could make it technically somewhat difficult to shut down, but better yet would be to get some timely government intervention, on the side of defending our rights to do such things on the same kind of principle as the well-established doctrine of first sale.

I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect that you may be overestimating the extent to which every piece of bullshit inserted into a TOS document that nobody reads is universally enforceable.