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More like, don’t pay until they curtail their segmentation of content across myriad of services, each adding n number of dollars and mental overhead of automatically renewing subscriptions bundled with certain must-pay-on-delivery for certain content that’s not available any other way. We see their model, we need to stop the growth of it.
if you don't find value don't consume or purchase it and it will stop growing. it grows because people pay. piracy is a strange rationalization
Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#242Piracy isn't perfect, but it never shows me ads, never removes shows, and doesn't try to recommend anything to me.
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#243The only 3 platforms that receive my money are Bandcamp, Itch.io and Steam. The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint. I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their…
> halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers What do you mean by this? Is there a story I'm missing?
That one was super easy to deal with because it had symbols. Judging by the license routines, they initally intended it to be a subscription service, only to give it an actually fair price down the road ($15). Seeing the username of the dev in the build metadata also made me feel a bit bad for him.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#244The only 3 platforms that receive my money are Bandcamp, Itch.io and Steam. The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint. I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their…
> halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers What do you mean by this? Is there a story I'm missing?
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#245The only 3 platforms that receive my money are Bandcamp, Itch.io and Steam. The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint. I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their…
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#246> I just feel like if we’re at peak monetization. We're really not. If anything there's more content (for lack of a better word) available for token amounts of money than there ever has been. I don't know how old you are but back in the distant past of the 90s you had two choices if you wanted to watch a film, you could go to a shop and buy a copy, probably for more money than you'd pay for a monthly Netflix subscrip…
Games haven't really gone down in price either, and now since so many of the games themselves are "live service" things, many of them expire after a few years when they turn the servers off. $25 cosmetic "virtual goods" are often sold in game, representing an absurd markup on the time of artists. You get manipulated/harassed to spend (maybe more like burn) money in them, often after having spent $40-70 to get in the front door.
Monetization is awful, and that shouldn't be too surprising. Businesses endeavor to extract what the market can bear most profitably, and to have a bigger piece of that pie, not so much to give the benefit of progress to the people paying.
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#248Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#249It depends. Games and music - no, I'm glad to pay for Spotify subscription, and I'm happy to buy a game every once in a while. Movies and TV shows - yes, if I cannot find them in Netflix. Sometimes I want to watch something, and it's not available in Netflix in my region, or not on Netflix at all. What choices do I have?
I usually choose not to watch.And not because of morals, but because the life is sad when so much effort goes into consuming content.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
#250I would say the dollars are for the smooth experiences, you have to make it worth the dollar; otherwise I have no choice but piracy.