It’s never really about the price, it’s about the convenience.
Yeah, sometimes I go so far to buy a game on Steam that got given away for free by Epic. EGS has the tendency to log me out all the time (maybe too many login across a bunch of devices) which annoys the heck out of me.
I agree, I choose the option that gives me the best experience. That is normally an unofficial option. For instance, I want to choose the tv shows accessible for my daughter. I want her to have access to tv shows from all over the world. There is no official service that offers that.
Give up, it’s all just entertainment for me, so i can just go and be entertained by something else.
this is da wae
Depends on the thing, how much money I have, and whether I think it’s worth it for the price they’re charging.
Like when I don’t have time to make bread I just steal it from loblaws.
The latter, because I don’t have money
It’s usually the opposite that’s the issue for me. If it’s not free, OK, let’s pay, but if it’s not a reasonable price for the product (including both the content, usability, and reusability, in case of media), then I’ll go out of my way to get it free or totally give up on it depending on how much I want it. That’s why I switched from piracy to Netflix for many years and now am back to piracy because I like shows in the background while working on projects, for example, or piracy, then Steam, then, fuck gaming as much because I found other hobbies.
If it’s a physical object, I do what i need to do. But I’ve developed the policy that I don’t pay real money for unreal things. And anything I cannot experience with all five senses is unreal.
I’m intrigued. Do you mean that you may experience it with five senses or that you must experience it with five senses?
Do you pay for clothes and eat them when they wear out? Do you taste and listen to household cleaners? Are silent things invisible to you, or do you use a form of echolocation?
I would normally say ‘may’, as in ‘must be able to’, especially since the classical senses are a little wonky anyway.
CAKE DAY! I see your cake logo xD
Thank you!
Lmao
And anything I cannot experience with all five senses is unreal.
Um… Wikipedia isn’t real? So what have people been donating to? Thin air?
😱
/j
To me, yes. I would be willing to buy a copy of Britannica or another printed encyclopedia.
Really depends on what it is but I usually wait until there’s an good sale of said product.
For example;
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Persona 3 Reload. Can’t be cracked normally due to Denuvo, so waited until there was a decent sale and then bought it together with a Voucher. So I only costed me €15 instead of the full price.
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Stellar Blade has Denuvo too but I refuse to purchase it. Doesn’t have a good sale nor do I have any vouchers left.
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Keep searching , never ever give up .
I usually give up or find a free alternative. Typically, if something is available at a good price I won’t bother trying to get it free to begin with.
Depends on what it is… if it’s a movie that I can’t find, I’ll usually just wait until an ethical version shows up somewhere later.
If it’s a research paper or a book I’m looking for, though, I take paywalling as a personal insult - I usually go to extreme lengths to obtain it, and I usually do get it.
Most of the stuff I want to pirate, is because they are expensively rare or not available through stores. Mind, that might change in the future, just because of how crap the US economy is becoming for the ordinary person.
I want to support cool stuff by paying, if the terms are reasonable. That means no DRM, all content, and an appropriate price. It is mostly hentai games that I am buying, since the developers of those definitely need the money.
There’s a child of books that I’ve bought in this way.
Also I bought some books that I’ve pirated, to support the author.
Depends. Sometimes I’ll give it up all together. If I think it’s worth it I’ll buy it. Other times I thought it wouldn’t be worth it and I pirate it and then I end up buying it afterwards. Other times I just wait for a steep discount/sale.
Take it as a challenge and waste inordinate amounts of time finding it ‘free’!
Same. For me it’s not about the money but the service and experience. I wouldn’t mind buying a blu-ray and ripping it but I’m not going to subscribe to some service, log in, and use their app to watch a single show or movie because I find that whole process to be a chore.
A chore, frequently an obnoxious experience and lastly a trap.
I don’t want a promise of ‘maybe we will let you view this until we capriciously remove it from our service’. Either I own what I pay for or no deal. I try to heavily prioritize GOG over Steam and while I have some streaming services in my orbit (not my choices) I always have ‘backup’ copies of my own.
Torrent stuck at 99.9% :/
The only seed has 99.9% availability, I am doubting anyone actually has 100%.
That’s a special kind of pain.
“What do you mean ‘force start’ isn’t doing anything?!?!”
It honestly depends. If it’s something I was on the fence about AND it’s not absurdly overpriced, probably just buy. Or put on a Steam wishlist for some future sale while I keep trying to find elsewhere.
There’s also a chance that the seeder finished the download but their software didn’t actually finished processing the files. Sometimes just copying the content to another location (to be safe) and renaming the “part” files to its intended file extension is all you need to do.
have you tried staring at the torrent? if it doesnt work try staring longer
I stared at it as if it were scp-173, nothing happened.
Maybe I need stare at SCP-96 and use it as the fuel for my modem instead.
Ive had decent luck watching things stuck at 99.9% and having it work fine. Sometimes it’s just an .nfo file or the like thats missing.
Omg I might have done that to some people! Never realised!
Previously I skipped downloadning the “unneccesary” files like .nfo og random .txt, or subtitles for other languages.
Never considered that would result in incomplete downloads for others.
Are you on audibookbay?
Yes. Only one seed, its 99.9% availability.
I can technically still listen to most of it, but the missing 0.01% triggers me for some reason.
How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?
If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?
To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.
Which torrent is it
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
Like its not one track, its separate files for each chapter, so I can still listen to most of it. only like two chapters have missing bits and is kinda semi-corrupted due to the missing bits.
Kinda feel like getting Audible because then its kinda unlimited access and I’ll binge through a a few books, then cancel when I’m out of content (that I’m interested in) lol. I don’t think I’ll have use for the audio files after listening through it once.
Some obscure audiobook. Highly doubt you’d have it.
I don’t know; I’ve seen the internet pull some weird shit out of its back pocket
Fuck that, don’t use audible! What is the title / author?
libro.fm has a nice drm free audio bookshop if you change your mind and do want to keep the audio files afterwards
Libraries are generally pretty good for books and audiobooks. Get stuff through libby or hoopla.
I have a funny storry:
there is a book I really wanted to read. It is an old af psychology science book. There is no pirated version of it anywhere.
I found one copy of it on the used market and bought it because the price was ok (70$).
At home, I open it up and go through it properly and see that THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER WAS CUT OUT!!! Literally there were the ends of the pages still bound with strings and you can see a wavy scalpel cut where the rest of the page would be.
Thats the physical equivalent of an incomplete torrent. Felt so bad.
Who would do this 😭
A madman.
Before it was sold, it was at a university library. The uni I went to had an open library, so anybody could come in. So either a student or somebody from the public, I guess.
I have spent 3 hours once to find this with a reasonable resolution, bitrate and subtitles (the subs were the hard part):
Same issue with “FUTURE WAR 198X年”.
In the end I got a copy from archive.org with hardsubbed english subsThat’s how we do it! Take no prisoners and don’t accept substandard booty.
Yarrrr!
Depends on how much I want it.
For music, I buy the CDs (if I can) to support the artist.
But I also recently ripped my whole spotify playlist.For other types of media, if it’s not in the quality I want, and it’s reasonable in price, I’ll pay it.
Then I’ll rip it and put it in my library.
