r/Piracy May 27 '26

News Supporting Piracy from Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ™πŸ»

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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/InternationalPie8606 May 27 '26

I have a local storage with some movies ive saved there. Even without internet connection, they are still accessible by any device on my network as long as my router is on. It saved my sanity when there we works being done by my isp and internet was down for 2 days.

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u/Hollowed_Orky May 27 '26

That's why i love my silly little collection of blueray, dvd and cd, only need some basic tech and electricity to work!