Probably only very specific ones in very specific areas

My Frankenstein in an ikea drawer probably works better than that customers Frankenstein and mine doesn’t even have all needed power supplied

You’d be surprised how many people would say ‘is it drivers’ or ‘is it bootlooping’ without realizing the uncooled (fuck you autocorrect) cpu

Ah yes, my raw, uncooked cpu, wtf lol

Do you want the spoiler

Thats pretty cool

Im trying to learn German kinda

Me definitely not thinking in c++ while learning c++

How can theft occur when there was never a purchase to be made?

That’s rape.

In this analogy you are stealing time and labour, if we’re being weird. Not being weird, thats rape, please get a better comparison, one that isn’t a crime against every living being please. Im not sure how this translates to copyright

The whole thing is chaotic and weird

‘Theft’ of an online thing is, yes, illegal, but if it is for the sake of preservation it is basically objectively morally good. There is a very fine, hard to see, easy to cross line of when piracy is good or bad and no-one actually knows where this line is.

Your analogy is strange by the way.

Exactly this. There are a few main categories id use for quality/piracy.

Standard/Common categories:

1. Low. The media is pirated a low amount compared to legitimate purchases. The quality may be low, content may be hard to pirate, or the userbase may not know of piracy.

2. Moderate. The media is pirated a similar amount to legitimate purchases. The media may not be worth the money, people may be purchasing after pirating, or people like it but can’t afford a legitimate copy.

3. Often. The media is pirated often compared to purchases. It may be priced too high for users or better known in piracy communities. It may be high quality, low quantity, or required for some jobs or other important tasks.

Nonstandard/Rare categories:

4. Unknown. The media is known so little that there’s barely any pirates getting the media. No known media quality based off piracy rate.

5. High to low. The media may start with a high amount of piracy, as it is new and people want to try it. The piracy rate drops and the legitimate purchases skyrocket. The creators may have broken the pirated version, it may have been taken down, or people may be telling each other to buy a legitimate copy. The most recent known example is Hollow Knight: Silksong. The media is either owned by strict person(s) or it may be decided that people should support creators, the first may be lower quality, and the second is almost always extremely high quality.

6. Low to high. It is at first not pirated often, legitimate purchases drop off and pirated versions are more popular. This may be a work software, as many may be required to use it, but don’t want to, or can’t purchase it. This is common for locally operated work software, mediocre media, or banned media.

Please correct me where I’m wrong or name a category of your own, and I will try to adjust this list.

This took a while to write, as automatic correction, commonly known as autocorrect was fighting me tooth and nail. Thanks all and sorry for responding 2 years late.

Edit: the list numbers cause it to indent with no number. How curious.

The “if buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” quote?

Dad joined when it was still okay. I joined when it was grindy. We played a very different game. After a month or two I decided it was too grindy; even if someone offered me an account with all dlc and season passes at no cost to me ever, I would decline. If media is pirated and shared, it has high enough quality to be shared. It is the most awkward sign of respect a creator could receive, respect nonetheless. D2 is currently so bad it’s not even worth trying to steal paid content. Apparently Anthem was in a similar boat, the game sucked, but it had a lot of potential. Dad has an art book from them and I spent days looking at it. When I asked him what it was originally meant to be, he told me all about the game, how it was promised and meant to be, and the same reskinned grindy 100+hour game it became. D2 and Anthem should have been made to their potential.

In that case it would be illegal

Yap about my own crimes:

In my opinion that would be immoral. For me, the only things I’ve pirated are mom’s cd’s (ripped) and Endorphin Dynamic Motion Synthesis. Endorphin physics is 20+ year old abandoned and discontinued software, it was a physics engine for film studios with a learning edition: 30 day free trial. Yes, it is a copy for my own enjoyment, but there was never a purchase to be made. I tried looking for the old web servers, but after NaturalMotion was bought by Zinga in 2015, they shut down all servers and effectively erased it from history. Only 2 companies legally know the secrets of this Dynamic Motion Synthesis: NaturalMotion/Zynga and Rockstar. Rockstar has a branch of it for games called Euphoria, I think it still exists. If no-one had cracked Endorphin, no trace of its existence would have stayed, effectively removed from reality. I now need windows 7 and a vm lol. The music mom had already bought, mp3players don’t support discs.

Yap about your game’s copycat:

How many ads? If there’s a lot ads it makes sense someone would rip it, though it still sucks. If there’s almost none, they’re very obviously in the wrong HOWEVER it’s more complicated than this and I obviously don’t know the details when all you said about it was you made it, had some ads, someone ripped it/reuploaded without ads, so I can’t really say much about it. Sorry that happened, it must suck, though I don’t know much about software dev.

Piracy is definitely a gray topic with valid points on either side so my interpretation of your game situation is probably inaccurate and where the line is drawn changes person to person. Have a great day.

Turn off ai mode and report ai images when you see them can help

In my experience (currently my only mobile browser) it will remember last setting, prefer no ai if unknown userbase preference and if there’s a known userbase preference it will do either yours or userbase depending on settings and version. Search assist (ai search summary) is on by default but will not force a generated answer. All of these settings have been easy and intuitive for me to toggle, though it is chromium based. I have seen better filtering and results on some searches on ddg than google, but that bar is so low bing can sometimes clear it.

I think they mean stuff like cpu and gpu processing power for games and similar? anyways have a great day and happy holiday!

those are good points though

I so badly want one but I’m saving up for a laptop (framework 12 probably) but I want it so badddddddddd

I’ll only get one after I get the laptop, don’t worry! :D

ew! what about families/households with shared computers? what about gametesters, whose job is to play games and find bugs or streamers or game devs? this is absurd! fuck nvidia!