I never did stop I've been pirating things for damn near 30 years
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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When I was young I pirated because I didn't have an income and couldn't pay. Now I pirate because I don't want to give any money to terrible companies.
There was a period in the middle where I didn't pirate anything, but that's beside the point.
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As an European, my mindset for this year has been "its amoral to not pirate American media"
I feel the same about all media. I'm doing my part to hasten the collapse of capitalism by keeping my spending to an absolute minimum, pirating everything, buying second hand where possible, and avoiding eating out or ordering takeout as much as possible.
I understand everything, except the eating out. I mean, I don't do it because I don't have the money, but aren't moet restaurants and takeout places local?
I don't necessarily boycott businesses just to achieve some higher purpose like beating fascism away or whatever- most of the time it's cuz I know the owner(s) are assholes to their workers. Fuck those guys. Plus, most food served outside is inferior to the one I make at home, so not much of value is lost.
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This but I’m Australian and it’s called “Reparations for Pine Gap”
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I remember that day of the “general strike” where the simple idea was to not spend any money on big corps. I got confused, because to me, that’s a 365-day-a-year lifestyle thing for me.
Maybe I’m lucky that I don’t have lifestyle needs like pet food, baby supplies, etc, and markets have been cornered there. But there’s plenty of forms of entertainment and leisure without giving it to Disney or Amazon and the like.
Never have. Never will.
Is there any type of post that doesn't belong in a shitposting community? Because I know some people have very strong opinions about what shitposting is around here. And personally, I don't think this fits. But maybe shitposting is meant to just be a pure miscellaneous grab bag of anything? Yes, I read the community rules which say "everything goes", but the reality of what is posted seems to suggest a different spirit of the law.
Nah let the votes decide. Block people who consistently post what you don't want to see. You can make your own experience and everyone gets the one they want
Its tricky because I don't dislike this post, but I do feel like posts should be in the appropriate comms. And I'm just legitimately unclear on what belongs here. I guess the idea is just whatever people post?
Pretty much. C/lemmyshitpost kind of goes through moods to so if you're not liking something give it a month. There was a no-politics meta for a while, right now we're kind of horny, maybe we'll get a crime wave 🏴☠️ here going forward. We also see sporadic aneurism posting and that's always exciting.
Check out TheShitPostOffice and shitpost@piefed for some more traditional material
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Be careful with what you are watching in the next few years. Hollywood gave itself a diverse face in the last few years. Put in black actors, had some strong women in lead roles, had some gay characters and so on. I'm afraid that we will see some movies pushing hart right MAGA topics in the next time. Movies that are pushing for traditional gender roles, have gay people as evil masterminds, immigrants as criminals and so on. We already saw that with all those movies with evil arab guys in the bush era. Hollywood was taken over by Trump's tech billionaires, you will see this turn it in the media you are watching. That will influence you and maybe you shouldn't watch such stuff
have gay people as evil masterminds
<Looks at current tech billionaires>
Being gay doesn't stop you from being evil.
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I would go to the high seas but I don’t know where to start. I used to visit the high seas often about 10 years ago. But now. Shrugs shoulders.
Quick start guide:
- VPN, my recommendation: mullvadVPN. (You need this, because copyright trolls look for easy targets, such as people having their real IP exposed. You don't want to be that, they won't fight with the VPNs hosting partner, then with the VPN company, then with your ISP, just to get to you, they only extort people they can reach directly.)
- Download qBittorrent (FOSS) and install ALL search plugins
- Activate your VPN and search with the integrated search function, it will look through all sites you installed plugins for and present them to you directly in the programme.
- Enjoy a collection of TV and movies you actually own.
There is a setting to bind qbittorrent to your vpn. PLEASE use this as using it without accidentally could get you in trouble. The binding is a last resort safety mechanism to prevent it from even working if the vpn is off.
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I’d also recommend the Megathread from the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com community: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
Main thing is to know if your ISP cares or not. Mine does, so I use a vpn. You can set qbittorrent to only use the vpn so if it gets turned off then just nothing will download.
You can do that on windows just downloading something like qbittorrent and mullvad vpn. You can also set them up in docker containers if you are familiar with that. It allows you to have the vpn only affect qbittorrent rather than your whole PC.
I do all of this on linux as well but had originally set it up on windows.
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Being a pirate is what makes you free. All hail communism.
Or you could ignore those services and watch indie stuff instead and pay for those directly
There's art out there that's worth buying. You don't have to pirate anything
Also, who cares if you don't see the latest prequel or sequel or reboot or preboot or requel by Disney? Be proudly out of the loop
If you don't watch big streamers' releases at all, you give them even less power. And if you buy indie, you give their competition power. You break the monopoly.
This is the ideal and one of the reasons I watched Youtube in the first place. I've found amazing stuff over time, like Veritasium, but I miss oldschool scripted media. Especially calmer stuff with fewer cuts. So much modern cinema is too fast.
If anyone has any recommendations for indies, I'd love to hear them.
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I can't pirate no harder, a terabyte a week I'm downloading! Ive been downloaded from dawn to dusk!
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3's from file sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad And the shame would leave a permanent scar 'Cause you start out stealing songs, and then you're robbing liquor stores And selling crack and running over school kids with your car
So don't download this song The record store's where you belong Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh don't download this song
Oh you don't want to mess with the RIAA They'll sue you if you burn that CDR It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven year old girl They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten criminal scum you are
So don't download this song Don't go pirating music all day long Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh, don't download this song Don't take away money from artists just like me How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? And diamond studded swimming pools, these things don't grow on trees So all I ask is everybody, please
Don't download this song (don't do it, no, no) Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (you can just ask him) Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should) Oh, don't download this song
Don't download this song (Oh please don't you do it) Or you might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy) Go and buy the CD (right now) like you know that you should (go out and buy it) Oh don't download this song
Don't download this song (no no no no no no) Or you'll burn in hell before too long (and you'd deserve it) Go and buy the CD (just buy it) like you know that you should (ya cheap bastard) Oh, don't download this song
Stop making goddamned excuses and just get it done. All of it.
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