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In the wake of the recent attack on Library Genesis I feel inclined to let everyone know that book piracy is foundational to public education in Costa Rica, specially in university levels
Almost all reading material for UCR students are photocopies, or more recently PDF scans, of books made without permission of the original author; one of the top universities in Latin America endorses book piracy
reminder that digital piracy is completely and utterly morally correct. "you wouldn't download a car" yes i fucking would. goodnight.
i fully believe that one can be pro-piracy while being anti-genAI due to the *scale* of data scraping, but i cannot believe that one can be anti-piracy and also pro-genAI.
When 87% of Games Are "Missing," Is Piracy Still a Crime?
The cult classic game No One Lives Forever (NOLF) is a masterpiece of its era ... and completely unavailable for legitimate purchase. This isn't due to technical failure, but a complex, unresolved ownership dispute involving major corporate giants: Microsoft, Disney, and Warner Bros. None of these entities are motivated to spend the money or legal effort to sort out the rights.
When Nightdive Studios (known for game remasters) offered to take on the work, the corporate response was a perfect illustration of copyright dysfunction. They admitted they couldn't find the original contracts but threatened to sue Nightdive anyway if they proceeded. This leaves fans with only one option: downloading the game as abandonware.
A Crisis of Legitimacy: Why Should We Pay?
The availability of NOLF forces a critical question: Why does "legitimacy" depend on us giving money to corporate behemoths who refuse to even make their ownership known? When they use copyright to restrict the marketplace, why should we care?
As Valve founder Gabe Newell once famously said:
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem…"
Newell's point is profound. If the legal provider makes the product impossible to buy, then the "pirate’s service is more valuable." When corporations fail to provide the service of sale, the moral obligation to "buy" digital data evaporates. The term "victimless crime" does not apply when the alleged victims are the perpetrators of cultural hoarding.
"you wouldn't download a car" yes i would
"you wouldn't download a purse" yes i would
"you wouldn't download
YES I WOULD
Circuit Beard, the digital pirate. Is this anything
I'm sorry, everyone. It's time I come clean.
I confess:
I *would* download a car.
we gotta bring piracy back into mainstream popularity. not just cause of capitalism reasons, i mean, that too obviously. but while i was cleaning out some stuff in storage i found my old external hard drive, and nothing will compare to the glee i felt when i opened it to find it just packed full of all my favorite movies from when i was in high school. back when thepiratebay was king, and also just easily accessible. and i can just watch any of them now, whenever i want, without worrying about access to them being taken away. it lights up a part of my brain knowing i have this little black box full of Treasures.
i know i sound like a boomer stashing money away in a mattress because i don't trust the banks, but by god let us PLEASE bring back the age of piracy.
