Movies: I like to playback raw video files with a desktop video player. I settle for nothing less. I would gladly pay a few doubloons in exchange for a movie video file download but nobody offers this, (except for GOG that one time with a paltry selection of films).
Games: “Hey we released this new game buuuuut you’re going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a ‘console’ because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself”
I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.
I just don’t really feel the need to justify my piracy.
I watch pirate movies and tv and I don’t feel a teeny tiny bit of remorse, nor interest in whether it’s ethical.
I fileshare because buying is renting nowadays, and I don’t want to own content that can be revoked because of an expiring agreement, service shutting down, etc.
You can get the files if you want, they’re just very expensive and to the tune of hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. Also they’re typically encrypted and can only be played back on an approved projection system and you have to buy decryption keys every time you want to watch the movie. This is why theaters suck by the way, they have to pay for the movie, the ability to play the movie, the ability to take money in exchange for people seeing the movie, etc.
I really enjoyed reading your take. Thanks for posting it. IP is theft.
I feel similar about it. if I could buy straight MP4 or mkv files from somewhere, I would. even if you buy it on Apple, Google or whatever digital marketplace you don’t really own it if it’s still on their servers…
I just want to use my player of choice, and play a locally hosted file. I don’t want to deal with the visual compression artifacts or choppy sound that comes with streaming through a poorly coded player, I’d rather run a full bitrate file through VLC on my own rig that’s tied into my surround sound system in peace.
(except for GOG that one time with a paltry selection of films)
It’s really too bad more movie makers don’t use GOG’s platform.
