(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)

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      Damn I’d talk about it on national tv here in Australia. It’s just piracy, nbd.

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        Well at least you’re using i2p, I kind of wish more people would. I just don’t like generally using unencrypted communication methods, so discussing even a simple crime like piracy is no bueno for me.

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        I still don’t know how I2P would be able to mask where the packets go to or come from, even if they encrypt the contents

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          Onion-like routing. It takes multiple hops to get to a destination. Each hop can only decrypt the next destination to send the packet to (i.e. peeling off a layer of the onion).

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              Yeah, torrents usually run 100-300KiB/s. I guess not too bad for smaller files. About an hour or three per GB.

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            Would that keep lawyers from just taking the last ip they get for their frivolous law suits? That way I could get a letter for something I actually didn’t download

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              I mean, you can be sued for anything, but it will get thrown out. Like, I guess the MPAA could offer a movie for download, then try to sue the first hop they upload a chunk to, but that really doesn’t make any sense (because they offered it for download in the first place). Furthermore, the first hop(s) aren’t the people that are using the file, and they can’t even read it. If people could successfully sue nodes, then ISPs and postal services could be sued for anything that passes through their networks.

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              By how the protocol is structured, it’s impossible for the address a downloader sees to know what the packet they forward actually contains, so they’re just taking the role of an ISP. Also, they don’t know the original source IP.

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              It’s next to impossible to do this. I think if you read up on the topic you’ll have a better understanding; I’d like to explain more but it’s difficult to do so without knowing your level of expertise, etc.

              The TL;DR is that nodes on i2p have no clue which nodes line up with which IP addresses. It’s true that from outside the overly you can see it’s i2p traffic, but you’d need to defeat so many layers of encryption that it’s close to impossible.

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                You will still always know where the packet last came from, otherwise it could not be routed to you. As I live in germany I have to deal with the threat of lawyers sending letters when they ‘caught you’ torrenting. So if anyone uses this in germany without a vpn and happens to be the last one in the chain they will use it just like they use their current system to claim you pirated stuff because you were uploading stuff through torrents.

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                  If they can’t follow the chain how do they know that you got something illegal? As I understand it the ISP would just see that you got an encrypted Paket from some random IP. Am I mistaking?

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    you can pirate games but don’t jerk yourself off about it, you don’t have to justify downloading video games as media preservation to not be a bad person because of it

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      I love paradox games, but the amount of dlc is killing me. I love how they continue to support their games, yes, but damn.

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        And then when they do update the game, and add 20 more dollars of new dlc at the same time, if you’re someone who likes mods, well congratulations. Your installation is ruined and you can’t go back to your saved game(s) without there being some level of headache involved. At this point a high seas version of stellaris would probably be a relief, since there’s no auto updates and all dlcs. But here I am, a sucker who bought like three-quarters of the dlc over the years and can’t even play it because I’ll just be sad my last playthrough got ended prematurely with a dlc release… Fuck Paradox and all their games.

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          What are you on about? You can just turn off auto updates or revert back to previous versions.

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    i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday

    A bit late if you already told a commercial company about your piracy, as well

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    Historical piracy was never about social justice, especially when you consider that a number of pirates during the 1600-1800s received government’s blessings to operate, so long as they didn’t attack the nation’s ships.

    Pirates simply did on sea the same thing highway robbers have been doing on land since the dawn of civilization.

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      Exactly.

      Piracy was “tolerated”, because it stole money from competitors.

      Even if a pirate lied and only turned over some of the booty to the crown, it still took it from their enemies.

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    Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

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      I don’t remember which game, but there was one that it came out that they straight up lost the files for and had to download from a ROM site to put on the virtual console thing

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    Idk abour other people but i pirate everything first and if its good i buy it. I pirated a bunch of games back in the day and bought the good ones. Terraria, geometry dash, minecraft, etc(can you tell i played on mobile lol)

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    “It’s expensive, but I still want everything, so I pirated it. Seems pretty justified.”

    Look, I’ve pirated a ton in my life, but this whole “This is actually a noble pursuit” is such a load of fucking horse shit. We want something and don’t want to pay the price that is required to get it, so we take it. The best part is “preserving” it, because we all know that when this guy is done playing, it will be deleted and he’ll never think of it again.

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        This is a much more honest answer, one that I also agree with.

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      Totally agree. The self aggrandizing, “hero of digital media preservation” thing is getting a bit ridiculous.

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        Aggrandize deez nuts bro. And being a hero of digital media preservation is only one of the myriad of reasons to pirate, such as

        1. Not accidentally signing away your rights to sue Disney due to forced arbitration when you avail a free trial of Disney+

        2. No drm

        3. Puts economic and financial pressure on the studio to keep games cheap

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          1. I’ll eat my hat if that turns out to be a working defence for Disney, so as a reason to pirate, it’s pretty feeble.

          2. Duh?

          3. Hardly. Hollywood is breaking box office records every other month, and the pirating community is very, very small compared to the larger population. Have you looked at video game prices lately? Movie ticket prices? Theyre out of control, seemingly not bothered by piracy in the slightest. Studio lawyers are going after piracy because they have nothing else better to do then pursue every point of revenue increase they possibly can, including going after the small fish.

          But you forgot the biggest reason…It’s free.

          The large majority of people who pirate couldn’t give a shit about “digital media preservation”. Sure, people all have their own reasons, but to the other commentors point, most people are gonna delete shit right after they listen/play/watch it. Storage space is expensive.

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      Also not true, i seed in i2p

      And also, leechers help in media preservation as well. The more copies there are of media, the more likely it will be preserved well into the future. Even if they dont seed now, just having and spreading copies of media definitely does help in media preservation

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    Look guys, you don’t need to justify your piracy. There is nothing ethically wrong with pirating media.

    Anticonsumer practices are justification enough. If someone has a childish response of “uR sTeaLiNg!!”, give them an equally childish retort and tell them to eat your farts.

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      You pirate to preserve media.

      I pirate because I like pissing off billion dollar conglomerates.

      We are not the same.

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        I am with this guy… Piracy generates some of the best corpo cope content

        Priceless seeing them getting twisted INA not about it with all of their lawyers and can’t do shot about some poor sucker just watching it without laying daddy the tax hehe

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        I pirate cause I can 🤷‍♂️ I spend a lot of money on media and gaming, sometimes I’m not $60 interested though lol.

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      I’d argue that indeed we do as a community need to justify our actions. Mainstream knowledge and media label us as close to thieves and criminals. People need to realize we just want to share bits and bytes across the internet, and we are stewards of media preservation and freedom of information. As cracking down piracy become normalized, it’s even more important to have a voice in society, and reassure people that what we’re doing is morally grounded

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    “The complete experience…”

    Dude most of those DLCs for Stellaris are just new parts for customizing the look of your civ. Only 2 actually are like expansions for the game that add more than just aesthetic content.

    Not saying you should have bought it over pirating, but like… You could have saved bandwidth by also not getting most of those DLCs at all.

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    While I am also not a huge fan of their DLCs it does actually make sense.

    The base game is still a good game many many years after release and it’s even better now than it was at release due to the free updates that come with the paid DLCs. There is also little reason to buy every single DLC at once or at all. You buy the ones with features you like. And there are obviously sales too. Don’t buy at full price! Everybody knows that.