The thing about pirating is, it ultimately damages what you want to consume. So Iām a bit selective there - like, I used to listen to new music on yt (pre-spotify timesā¦), maybe download it, and if I really liked the album, I bought it. Same for games - in the 90s, copied floppy disks were standardā¦ but now I earn my own money, and while Iām definitely not filthy rich, I think I can pay the artists for the art they create, and thatās fine - especially for those innovative indie studios. But if a company thrives by using shitty methods (looking at the big bad players like EA, and even ActivisionBlizzard by nowā¦) I surely feel less bad about pirating.
Itās another thing if something is just not available at all without pirating. Yeah well, if you donāt want me to buy a game or a book here legally, I have to get it somehowā¦
edit: and I totally love sites like https://the-eye.eu/, simply because you can find just about everything there. Like a big library of āthe internetā
Nintendo for one deserves half of the pirating they recieve, due to their various practices trying to prevent you from migrating games to other platforms even when you own it
Thatās what I meant by if a service canāt remain sustainable I loose out
I havenāt watched or had a tv in over 15 years but I do pay for a YouTube premium account since it is my main entertainment source for both videos, movies, music and podcasts.
Also I like and support the platform expept from their stupid greedy tendency to tik-tokify it latelyā¦ In fact I may stop my subscription soon just because of that. Iām tired of every single platform forcing stories on me by spamming 50% of my homepage with them. Stick to what you do best YouTube!
I do stream series and movies occasionally but tbh most of them are not available on Netflix anyway. If Netflix had everything and wasnāt playing bingo with whatās visible in what county them I would gladly pay.
Rant over
I see this as a feature, not a bug For example, my wife wants to watch trash shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians (sorry Kim), which I said Iām ok with - as long as she pirates the show so they donāt make any $ off your viewership. She said sheās ok watching them into bankruptcy, so itās a win-win
they are the perfect combo of comedy of stupidity and a warning about which companies to avoid buying from! xD
None of those ads make me buy stuffā¦ but a lot of tem make me avoid those brands.
and on the comedy sideā¦
last night we were on the tram and saw this billboard that read: āYou are NOT a bus driverā in massime yellow letters against a black background. that was it. nothing else visible. no brands, no reasons ā¦
later we noticed some unreadable deep blue tiny letters on the hidden bottomā¦ still got us a good 10 minutes of laughter!!
Probably last time was yesterday. I have adblocks and other script blockers on all of my devices but on TikTok itās not possible to block all ads and on local news media you need to allow ads to watch their videos.
So Iāve been considering posting up some cash to put a billboard somewhere in the USā¦ just one billboardā¦ just for a few daysā¦ but I want it to be placed in one of the most likely places it will catch the eye of either media or cause such a ruckus that the ruckus will catch media attention.
where should I put it? Times square? Middle of LA/Hollywood? Letās think.
what should be on it? X-ray image of chip in hand is an obvious oneā¦ but what else could be on there?
Kind of obvious. Put it where it will offend the most people. To figure out which people, read the nasty comments left on implant vids and such.
Soā¦ Religious. Conservative. Intolerant. The news is full of places that match that trifecta.
Iām thinking somewhere on the southern I-35 corridor. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas. Big cities for coverage, but not too big causes theyāre generally less conservative.
Either this will cause a panic or Amal gains a new customer and the forum gains a new user who wants to fit all the 30 implants that he ordered just to get startedā¦
Ok, thatās unlikely to happenā¦
Time to ask @Vicarious to see if heās got updated X-Rays.
For example, my wife wants to watch trash shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians (sorry Kim), which I said Iām ok with - as long as she pirates the show so they donāt make any $ off your viewership. She said sheās ok watching them into bankruptcy, so itās a win-win 
