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The NES and SNES classics have sold pretty well though, to the point where they've put out second production runs. That said, they still do have a very limited selection of games and there's a ton of releases that you just can't get anywhere (especially since the Virtual Console died with the Wii U and there's so far no official replacement for most of it) for licensing reasons or lack of interest.
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Rex-Goliath posted:The reason piracy took off in the first place was because in a lot of instances it was way more convenient. Straight up. You could fire up your torrent tracker of choice and have your movie in minutes vs. driving to the video rental place and hoping they had what you wanted. 
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Aug 14, 2019 15:12
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Modern movies aren't even worth stealing, if I pirated anyone of them I probably would still ask my money back
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Aug 14, 2019 15:24
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just because you used netflix for a few years doesn't mean piracy went anywhere
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Aug 14, 2019 15:32
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You wouldn't gently caress a cactus.
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Aug 14, 2019 15:56
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Because you're a goddamn coward
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Aug 14, 2019 16:00
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sweet thursday posted:You wouldn't gently caress a cactus. You would get hosed by one?
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Aug 14, 2019 16:04
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"You wouldn't steal from a giant evil corporation  "Guess again 
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Aug 14, 2019 17:37
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poverty goat posted:just because you used netflix for a few years doesn't mean piracy went anywhere Piracy has definitely died down a bit. Some of the old private sites I used to use for certain things are essentially dead from lack of users at this point.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:43
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Yes. gently caress you Adobe. Although way less than years ago.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:53
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stevewm posted:If there was a Steam for Movies/TV, without any stupid bullshit restrictions, where you actually owned what you bought I thought steam was another place where it was a perpetual license to use it and you don't own it. Not to mention you can't transfer your copy to someone else to sell it like you can with a physical game.
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Aug 14, 2019 18:07
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Inept posted:I thought steam was another place where it was a perpetual license to use it and you don't own it. Not to mention you can't transfer your copy to someone else to sell it like you can with a physical game. Pretty much, but at least it makes things convenient for the most part.
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Aug 14, 2019 18:08
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Fagmaster posted:Modern movies aren't even worth stealing, if I pirated anyone of them I probably would still ask my money back Same with videogames. Sometimes I get them free from giveaways or bundles and I get upset that I actually wasted bandwidth and storage on this crap
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Aug 14, 2019 18:11
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Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there
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Aug 14, 2019 20:13
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You wouldn't pet a homeless.
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Aug 14, 2019 20:15
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DB Pooper posted:Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there I'm gonna steal the materials.
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Aug 14, 2019 20:16
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DB Pooper posted:Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there Currently 3d printing warhammer figs is actually more expensive than buying them, so yeah.
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Aug 14, 2019 20:25
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I'm gonna steal a car and just cutout the middle man. I will no longer be beholden to Big 3D Printer.
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Aug 14, 2019 21:35
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DB Pooper posted:Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there Yeah but at least you don't have to deal with a car salesman
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Aug 14, 2019 21:38
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Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in RIAA, 'It belongs to us.' 'No!' says the man in the MPAA, 'It belongs to us.' 'No!' says the man on Pirate Bay, 'It belongs to everyone.'
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Aug 14, 2019 22:04
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I have an idea, since they are going to steal the movie anyway, let's just make the entire thing ads! They'll pay for the whole thing too!
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Aug 14, 2019 22:27
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I'd say you should patent that idea, but there's no way the studios aren't already working on that
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Aug 14, 2019 22:37
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Keygen music is one of the best things about piracy. Behind the lack of DRM or expense, obviously.
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Resting Lich Face posted:Keygen music is one of the best things about piracy. Behind the lack of DRM or expense, obviously. I hadn't pirated any software in like 10 years and when I did recently and heard those chiptunes from the cracker I nearly wept with nostalgia.
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RandomFerret posted:I'd say you should patent that idea, but there's no way the studios aren't already working on that Lol it already exists and is popular as hell. The Emoji movie is chock full of ads, wreck it ralph is basically one big ad, and the lego movies are literally feature length ads. Aside from the emoji movie they're pretty entertaining ads, especially the first lego movie, but that doesn't mean they're not ads.
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DB Pooper posted:Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there It's worth it if you want to drive in your own Wienermobile or Prince Symbol
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Resting Lich Face posted:Keygen music is one of the best things about piracy. Behind the lack of DRM or expense, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88sCwjcSBA
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DB Pooper posted:Even if you could 3D print a car it would cost a lot of materials to make just want to throw that out there Just 3D print the materials too then, geez do I have to think of everything
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:I have an idea, since they are going to steal the movie anyway, let's just make the entire thing ads! They'll pay for the whole thing too! The tried it briefly with tv shows, but it was really obvious and folks who recorded the show or were streaming it could still skip the built in ads.
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Aug 15, 2019 15:13
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 Is that a flash drive full of warez in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? It's a flash drive full of warez
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Aug 15, 2019 15:49
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Anti-piracy ads in legally purchases movies are like if a kid cut class and the teacher gave a lecture about how cutting class is bad to the room full of kids that actually showed up.
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Aug 15, 2019 17:32
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It's pretty loving hilarious that you can rent a movie on amazon and after watching 1 minute of the movie it disappears after like 3 days which is way worse than Blockbuster.
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Aug 15, 2019 19:58
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i will never pay to rent a digital movie. who do these people think they are. they can kiss my rear end at least you can rip an actual copy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhUcgugkVU
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I no longer pirate music because I don't mind paying $10 a month to Google (I don't like Spotify) so that I can hear my music plus hear new stuff. Back in the day I would just grab a day's worth of headers from Usenet, download them all and then if something new looked interesting I'd give it a try. If it was a new band I'd buy a CD or go see them live. If you want to know why concert tickets are over $100, just ask any streaming service why they give musicians fractions of a cent for every playback. Living in Canada, you are a bit limited with options. Cable TV is going to cost you over $100 and most streaming sites are geolocked when it comes to content A few years ago you could use a VPN Service to make it seem like you were in the US and get lots of Netflix stuff and that actually (I think) helped make NetFlix popular up here. People also used this to access Hulu. Then Content Creators made Netflix block all VPNs and Hulu won't accept any money unless you have a US credit card. It cost me about $250 for a 8TB USB drive which I bought the other day which is now my 2nd. I get poo poo from Usenet, which is a millions times easier now with Sonarr, and other private trackers. Both sources do show that people are really doing their part to archive obscure or hard to find stuff. What I'm saying is that I'll always pirate because it's just easier than dealing with "will it or won't it work " when I try to stream.
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I have netflix and prime video and spotify. If whatever I want isn't on there I'll pirate it and then if it's good I'll buy the bluray or record. Also I'll try to read up on the bluray in advance and if it's full of bullshit unskippable ads then it will remain pirated because gently caress you I'm not giving you money for an objectively worse experience. Like the In Bruges blu ray I have actually downloads trailers before you're allowed to watch the film. I have to disconnect my PS4 from the internet if I want to watch a film without being forced to download and watch some poo poo. You should be allowed to charge the distributor money because they are stealing your bandwidth.
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I bought the Sopranos on bluray because it's one of my favorite shows and I wanted a high quality company that wasn't going to be a 850GB torrent that I'd have to seed for a year. But when I go to watch them, I have to sit though a 3 or 5 minute "ALSO ON HBO!" preview of shows that were canceled 10 years ago. Can't fast forward or skip it all.
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Bonzo posted:I bought the Sopranos on bluray because it's one of my favorite shows and I wanted a high quality company that wasn't going to be a 850GB torrent that I'd have to seed for a year. I bought a House MD season 1 box set back in the day that had a three minute unskippable advert for a furniture company that went bust a few months after the DVD came out lol
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My cousin has owned and operated a video store in my small hometown for many years now. It somehow still survives to this day. During peak DVD in the early 2000's, I would sit in the back of the store for hours and do nothing but rip DVDs. I had an old laptop setup specifically for it and a couple external drives. I'd take the rips home and burn them to DVD+Rs. I still bought DVDs too during this time... In fact I have 2 large boxes with nearly 600 bought DVDs taking up room in my closet now that I don't know what to do with. I mean who the hell watches DVDs anymore?! I would normally only grab the main movie title.. But for some DVDs I wanted the entire thing, menus, extra features and all. I would use a program called PGCEdit to edit the DVD structure and remove the prohibited operations flag, and/or make it jump straight to the menu instead before burning it. For a long time my cousin's store would get new releases often 2-3 weeks before street date. After piracy started to increase worldwide, that window kept getting shorter. Now he doesn't get new release copies until only 4 days before street date, sometimes its only the day before!
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Rad-daddio posted:The tried it briefly with tv shows, but it was really obvious and folks who recorded the show or were streaming it could still skip the built in ads. No no, I mean the entire movie would be ads. The content itself would be ads full of product placement, a movie could take place in a hotel and the hotel would pay for it because the whole thing is just an advertisement that people pay to see!
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