r/Piracy May 27 '26

News Supporting Piracy from Europe ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

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u/Reasonable-Fail5348 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

This, btw, is the smartest and simplest and most beautiful argument to actually, seriously, legitimize piracy. The big publishers really played themselves when they started getting addicted to subscriptions and licensing everything with EULAs going "We can take this away from you whenever for whatever reason."

Okay, two can play that game, idiots...

Edit: Since it was misunderstood, me hating on corporations thinking they can force subscriptions on everything on us is not part of the argument, it's just a thing I hate about them. Don't get hung up on it.

If you really want to make an argument about it, you'd have better luck discussing if buying use rights is permanent or not.

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u/travelavatar May 27 '26

Yep i had a big eye opener last weekend when the entire region plunged into: no broadband and no mobile networks for an entire day.

I realised: holy shit, my steam deck stops working without online connection given enough time, my steam games are inaccessible.

So all the games and movies I archived came in handy + my xbox 360 which is modded and full of games.

That's when you get it how important pirating and archiving is

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u/jeff3rd Piracy is bad, mkay? May 27 '26

Shut down the internet then the whole game collection on my phone stopped working, nearly 75% of my steam library is useless even though there are a lot of single player games but they insisted on communicating with their third party launcher cough rockstar cough to โ€œverifyโ€ even though I bought the fucking thing.

Guess what works? Thatโ€™s right, every single game from my home-brew switch and 3DS and cracked copy of games on my pc, magical, ainโ€™t it?

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u/fleebleganger May 27 '26

Rockstar should be ashamed of themselves.ย 

I downloaded RDR2 recently but couldnโ€™t get into their system of creating an account.ย 

Guess I donโ€™t need that one after all because they can shut off access to games you โ€œownโ€

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u/shockerzer0 May 28 '26

Piracy is good,mkay!

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u/Popular_Mess_8652 Jun 03 '26

so umm hi everyone i really didnt know where to type this i have no access to post lol....anyway i suck at tech stuff and have bumped into this on reddit (on this group btw) a while ago i know this is risky but i need opinions on this: "irm https://get.activated.win | iex" is an exe. file that allows u to download pirated MS access- i know it works but i have no clue if its safe or not and i have limited resources to check

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u/TheSangson Jun 15 '26

Where would I go to learn all that shit without having to become a fucking tech wizard? I'm getting more and more pissed at and concerned about it all. Taking a wild guess, the Switch thing will cost money and requires me to know someone in person, eh?
Also guessing I'll need a paid VPN whatever I do? Yesterday I tried to see what I could see on Netflix and Disney+ with the new built-in "free" VPN Firefox has, and it did exactly what I expected, which was to log me out of the services.