@midway@meowski@gamesbymanuel@Kirino@MMS21@bot No more than other people have already made, completely free and open source. (inb4 OMG OPEN SOURCE IS SO HARD TO USE YOU CANT REPLACE COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE WITH THAT!!!!! the problems with open source might frustrate non-technical people, but they don't stifle creativity for the entire human species.)
@meowski@gamesbymanuel@JAJAX@Kirino@MMS21@bot You are free to write your own software (and make it entirely open source) if you like. I mean, the software you want isn’t innovative and simple, right?
@bot@meowski@gamesbymanuel@Kirino@MMS21@midway What if we were starting a new country up, or maybe like, were setting up a colony on another planet. The governer's son convinced him to make a law making all the standard tools-- pliers, cutting torches, hammers etc... which everyone has known how to make for years-- his intellectual property. Now everyone who builds anything with any of those tools has to pay a "license fee" to use them. And everyone has to go with it because the powers that be decided they were allowed.
It would discourage a lot of work being done because it's prohibitively expensive, it's like a non-government regulator who gets to come and tell you what you can and can't do, and gets to demand a piece of the profit for any of your endeavors regardless of the fact they didn't really contribute except in a very seminal way.
That's basically what's going on in software. These, by and large, aren't massive innovations, they're obvious. Anyone would be able to come up with them given enough time working on the specific problems in question. And sure, someone should get rewarded for coming up with it, but letting people own these ideas is just gonna stagnate us, leading to people being unable to do certain things, forgoing the use of certain tools, lowering their standards of what's possible, just because someone feels entitled to a cut of the action.
Yes. I’ve pirated films that I’ve watched in the cinema or media that I have the physical copy of. Sometimes its available on a family members streaming account and I just pirate it for convenience. I just don’t want to use the Netflix/ Amazon app because I don’t like the interface.
The one thing I legitimately pirate is HBO shows as MAX or whatever they’ve called it now is not available in the UK. Again thats a service problem, if they wanted my money maybe they should have made it possible.
The world is not designed to cater to you specifically in terms of making things easily accessible though. Some things aren't available in some areas because the licensing rights differ per country. This doesn't entitle you to take it without paying. That's nigger logic.
I can safely say I don't pirate, unless something is out of print or quite literally inaccessible. Like you though I am of the opinion that if you own a physical copy of something there's no issue in then pirating another copy,.as it's unrealistic to expect someone to buy two copies of copyable media.
I don't walk into a store and take their food without paying, so I don't take a film without paying.
Thats not what I’m saying. Paying for Adobe means you get updates which include fixes and new features. But it also means they’ll fuck you in the ass any chance they get. I can avoid the ass rape by pirating their software.
Back when I used to pirate games I tried it out on my system to see how it runs and then waited for steam sales to purchase the game. Even with software that I’ve pirated they were only used a handful of times.
Back when I still played games I purchased them on Steam because it was a lot more convenient. Then I stopped because the games got worse and they tried ass raping paying customers. I don’t mind however long it takes for the DRM to be cracked but the games weren’t worth the storage space they took.
Piracy is a service problem. I had NO ISSUE with paying back when they didn’t try ass raping customers every 2 seconds.
@MMS21@meowski@gamesbymanuel@Kirino@bot@midway I wouldn't care that much about what adobe's doing, except keeping the really powerful tools behind the counter, making them accessible only to "professionals" conditions people to become obligate consumers.
How are you supposed to write open source software that infringes copyright? The niggers at Adobe have patented something as simple as snapping elements to guidelines https://patents.justia.com/patent/9442623
@bot@meowski@gamesbymanuel@Kirino@MMS21@midway There isn't a huge demand for software like photoshop. It's a niche product that has cachet because a very small number of people use it to make all the fun braindead comics, movies, and everything else people like.
The number of people who ever want to manipulate an image on their own is a vanishingly small proportion of the population.
It’s probably the most pirated app ever. But if what you’re saying is true, then the high price is justified. If that market is so lucrative other competitors will step in (and they have).
They both do the same thing for my purposes. I’m not making film posters here.
My only gripe with GIMP is that Photoshop has more tutorials as its a lot more popular and thats out of their control. Its external to the software. Thats genuinely the only problem most people will have; they want to do x but can’t figure out how.
>HBO releases DVDs, yes? I’m not going to pay more simply because they’ve region blocked my country. Its on them to provide a service worth paying for. >You could also use a VPN to access their service and provide payment Isnt that illegal like piracy? They’ve put a block in place for a reason.
Than don't consume the product? You're not entitled to watch a TV show just because you can't afford it, how first world is thst lmao
The reason for that illegality is people were using it to fuck with their taxes, additionally the onus of someone accessing their media without being in the country falls on the company not the end user.
If you need bread and are banned from the store you can wear a disguise right? Wearing that disguise is more justifiable to me then stealing the bread, that's small iq shit.
> I can safely say I don't pirate, unless something is out of print or quite literally inaccessible. Did I not just say that was my situation with HBO you NIGGER