Piracy always has been my go to for everything, I even have a modded version of UKposts app on my iPhone to skip ads and sponsors as well as downloading videos in mp4 and mp3 format for free

Heres the ironic thing, my family has a spotify prenium subscription and the offline functionality is actually competent. You get offline acess enabled for 30 days and that allows me to conserve my (shitty by other pepoles standards) 4GB of data. i was considering buying youtubes bs but when i discovered that it was going to be this shit by this video, i have made a u turn and im actually now considering paying for more data. Funny how things work, huh google?

Do you have a website just in case they try to censor your videos? Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

​@@peepoHappyy piracy has been your go-to for a good reason. When a business gets gigantic enough, not only does it have capital, but that capital gives them power over the consumer, which will inevitably lead to these shitty practices we're seeing now. Remember, it's ALWAYS morally justified to steal from adobe.

@mason6300 - YES & it´s nothing new at all, it was even the same for 20+ years with DVDs & music "un-CDs" incl. Sony-XCP malware & Alpha-DVD malware etc. (there is a picture of what honest paying customers have to suffer vs. what pirates can enjoy)

the government: jail time it is

@@niktonic5379yeah it’s nearly impossible to follow his principals in today’s world

Your grandfather is wise

hah, that's a good one ❤

@@Macheako that grandfather is truly wholesome :) Hopefully people would have followed similar principals to protect them their family and society

SPOT ON.

How could the service ever be better (or even equal) when pirates don't pay for anything? People who quote Newell like that just use it as a crutch - they were never going to pay anyway!

"better than what they're receiving" would be "more convenient" in this case. in large part, i reckon that dominant services are only dominant bc they make their services easy to access and use

@@DisgruntledDoomer I wouldn't pay you. I pay people who are worth paying.

@@DisgruntledDoomer clearly you were not around, or didn’t participate, in the hayday of game and software piracy. Steam came along and made it so much easier, so much more organized, so much simpler to be a gamer. Particularly once playing online became more and more complex for pirates. Steam literally offers so much value just as the software alone, that it makes perfect sense to just buy games from them. It’s convenient, there’s rarely any complications, and it just works. Modding rarely requires a third party website and frustrations trying to get mods to work. Tech support can be handled in steam itself when you have a problem with a game, rather than having to go to yet another forum somewhere. Were it not for steam, piracy and the workarounds to play online would be much more popular. Getting something for free doesn’t always outweigh the benefits that come with paying, and often it doesn’t. Particularly when it comes to steam.

beautifully said and sadly true

Half right. When Netflix streaming came to Australia, it was pretty restricted on what was available. So VPN sales went sky high. But piracy soon rose when everyone else came because as much as it cost, they still didn't have a lot of the content that people wanted

"Illegal " streaming and torrenting?? What is that?

@@rightsdontcomewithpermits7073 just downloading a movie online, u dont need to get more specific

well said

They gave up on the adblocker war lol. Been using Brave and haven't run into that stupid adblock warning screen in months

Yeah, but that’s more than enough for their jingles and logos to make their way into your head. They don’t think you’re likely to see an ad and then go buy their products, but, if you’ve been shown advertisements with catchy music and colorful logos, when you’re eventually looking to buy a product in that category, you’re like 70% more likely to buy their products because of the familiarity that’s been programmed into you.

@@mikefamm5712 Have you any basis for saying 70%? I can confidently say I have never bought anything because of an ad. Mostly because I'm broke..

Ain't HDCP great?

What happens if you buy a movie on UKposts. And then later they decide to ban your UKposts account? Do you also lose the movies you've bought on UKposts?

@@colt5189 Of course!

@@justandhans Not necessarily, actually. As someone who has bought movies off of UKposts, they also appear in your Google Play account for what it's worth. Still anti-consumer as heck, though...

@@justandhans I don't get why anyone would buy a movie on UKposts if UKposts could just ban your account and thus erase your movie purchase? I generally only buy physical media if there's an option, and then use the digital code to add that as backup. The only time I've bought digital is when it's something like an older TV show that hasn't been released on physical media.

Which shows ?

@@vaibhavkumar-us8tw don't remember all of them because it was a few years ago but I remember wanting to watch Bofuri and was not available on crunchy, went to Funimation and it was giving me errors and not letting me play anything on my account so I had to pirate it

Streaming is Streaming there is no "other" direction.

@@rightsdontcomewithpermits7073 Um, yes there is, it's called downloading torrents, which is the entire subject being discussed in this comment section. Is your brain not functioning? Furthermore, no, not all streaming is identical. Some is legal through official streaming providers, other streaming is illegal through foreign websites that stream that content to you for free without legal permission. Again, this is the entire topic being discussed. How this managed to elude you is beyond my understanding (and seemingly beyond yours as well.)

I use 9anine and watch cartoon online with ad blockers lmao

I would love to know what game this was. That’s crazy

i would like to know the game too

The thing is... you can have an ISO mounting program on your computer for totally legit reasons. "I want to make backups of my physical media with an ISO maker. I want to put as many of these ISOs on a Flash Key. Oh, damn, my case doesn't have support for 5.25" DVDs anymore, system can't play older games on physical DVD, etc." and some games will still think "ISO mounting = piracy" which is total BS.

This is why this whole thing is so bizarre to me. You didn't like something so you decided to pirate it and you justify it by saying you didn't like something. This can apply to pretty much any kind of piracy and any kind of theft. I didn't like that my favorite candy was way in the back of the store so to make up for it I stole it. I mean yeah but its stealing. Its just bizarre that we can build pretty crazy technology and then in a small amount of time get used to it as if its a part of nature. We think its just normal for it to work perfectly and when it doesnt something is terribly wrong and we are being ripped off. So we don't like ads on youtube but we don't want to pay creators either so we pay for youtube premium to not have ads and then say that we "totally would give to creators but we already pay for premium." But we already tried that avenue and it doesn't work, at all because again people just expect stuff to work and be free. As part of premium we can download videos to our youtube profile but not locally (even though there are supers easy ways to do so if you know a little bit of coding, just go to github lol) because youtube tried to allow us to download videos locally and it wasn't feasible. What youtube ultimately does is provide an absolutely insane amount of data to be available to its users. This translates to a lot of energy, space, hardware, technology, and resources like water to keep all of it cool but since we don't see any of that think its just supposed to show up magically on our phones and computers. All of this to say. We want shit for free, we don't want to pay people for anything, we want it to work 100% right 100% of the time and if we don't we throw a fit. We can make fun of "mommy and daddy youtube making decisions for us" all we want but maybe it should be that way because the vast majority of their customers are entitled toddlers and they just realize that.

Not quite the same but I had an Xbox One and played Skyrim with DLCs etc, all of which I’d purchases through Microsoft Store. When bought a new Xbox series X, it then turned out I had to buy the game and all the DLCs again if I wanted to play them on the new console. Like, why is Microsoft punishing me for spending £££ of my money on their new console?? It’s literally the same game! If I had bought the game discs I would not have had this problem so I learned my lesson. I don’t purchase downloads anymore, I only buy the physical game discs.

Amen. If what is easily accessible is a good service then people won't feel the need to pirate. People only pirate when things are bad

That's why people were using Netflix at the beginning and why people now prefer to pirate than use Netflix

That's for the first world. For developing countries it's definitely a pricing issue. Both are VERY important

@@DeadStawker That's why pricing discrimination exists.

There's a reason some people spend $10,000 on hardware and disk storage but won't pay for Netflix,Amazon Prime,HBO,D+. With certain softwares and community sharing website accesses, they can offer BETTER service and quality.

I was thinking of pirating the VST plugins that I bought and own because of those damn launchers that forces me to be connected to the internet in order to run the plugins. Such plague! I'm not decided yet, but I strongly consider it.

@@SaintMatthieuSimard No harm if you already paid them. There are lots of things where the pirate has more consideration for the user than the company who wrote it. There are versions of Windows where they stripped out all the crap. Illegal but much nicer to live with. Who needs news about the Kardashions popping up when they are trying to concentrate on some boring and difficult work. It's as if Windows is designed to stop you getting things done.

Funimation in a nutshell

That’s certainly the philosophy of every thief. What’s a better deal? Paying something or paying nothing? Sounds like stealing is always the better deal!

@@Creshex8 It's not about the money you spend on the product, it's about the product being "yours". If you have to be connected to the internet and receiving ads in order to use something you paid for, what's the point? A better "version" is available for free and the only dissuasion that exists is a message from your ISP saying "Pls stop ):" So you take the better product and it just so happens to be provided for free.

It's all about controlling you. We are getting this from all sides anymore.

Corporations: You will own nothing and you will be happy. Open source: Allow me to introduce myself.

The reason I don't talk about it, is because I don't care. You do this, I just use another application. 😅

This is probably because of music videos, I doubt UKposts could keep charging 10$ a month if you could download 1000 mp3 songs on a single month and I don't think we can genuinely say that this would be reasonable. They could probably work on a way that restricts songs but give you offline access to regular videos though.

@@goncaloduarte4683 I mean, their movies that are free with adds already have DRM that prevents third party software from downloading them, not sure why they can't do the same with music.

And you can use command line tools to do the latter

@@Vekstar not on mobile

​@@CookingWithJackDanielsyes on mobile, apps like seal make it a gui but termux always works too

It is a lot more convenient to only have to skip one sponsor read in a video versus sit through dozens of auto-play ads depending on the video length.

​@@CookingWithJackDaniels new pipe:🗿🗿🗿🗿

Thanks to gaben and valve, the only games I torrent are abandonware

This quote is great. Lets be real here, it can be a pricing issue, but more often than not it is not. Most people (atleast here in finland) have high enough income to be able to afford to buy a few games or pay for a streaming subscription. But people dont like paying to make their lives harder. Companies need to realize this.

And yet Steam still has their halfassed DRM on every release. Sure, it is up to the publisher, but I am pretty sure the publisher has to opt out. Gabe is WRONG, it is a "Cost/service issue" the price is generally too high for the service provided. When the cost/service ratio is favorable enough, piracy ceases to be a big issue. It is easy to see, many "indie" and DLC driven games costs 20-30 bucks, while AAA games are pushing 70 bucks. AAA games still get heavily pirated because they are not worth the 70 dollar price tag, if the price was slashed in half I predict they would make more money. And Paradox realized that DLC is where the real money is at, that and workshop integration.

Absolutely agree. Workshop service is what made me never pirate again.

This happens with anime all the time. There are shows id love to buy but they just don't release them in america so you have to pirate them.

Arrr. I started paying for UKposts red when it came out about 7 years ago. Imagine The rage when I realized 7 years later the first time I actually needed to use the download feature that it doesn't work! Never make someone feel like they are foolish for having paid you!

i used to to pay for netflix and hulu and be able to watch almost anything that i wanted, but then disney plus, amazon prime, hbo max, and many others showed and now my options are pay 50 + dollars per month to have to search through many websites to maybe watch or go to free streaming site and stream pretty much any tv show or movie immediately.

Over the years I've bought Dr Strangelove (the movie) on DVD, Bluray and 4K. Last night I saw Dr Stranglove on Prime. I clicked it to watch and it told me to fork over $2.99. That is not convenience and it's not my job to find a way to tell these platforms they don't get to double dip. I exited prime got off my a$$ and found the 4K copy and slipped it into my player. It gets worse and worse by the day. Let's not go into the dark pattern where mp4's that I created from CD's I own somehow go locked into Amazon music and once I stopped paying that media was gone from my phone.

I used to have a youtube playlist that I'd listen on my phone while cleaning around the house. Then they decided that "you can't play if your phone's screen is not turned on, you scum!" So, now I just use those handy sites that allow you to download "videos" as mp3s and I just listen to those on my phone.

I would have to be subscribed to every content provider(netflix, HBO, etc) in order to have access to a fraction of what I would have ''elsewhere'' from a single location... And then I'd still suffer things like either not being able to even download anything at all or having it heavily restricted, at a lower quality, and have to deal with whatever horrible UI that company has put out on top of it. The piracy websites that aren't even corporate entities have more impressive and intutite UX design than these billion dollar companies lol, which is almost reason enough for me to want to go elsewhere.

People are dumping CDs and DVDs and I’m adding them to our offline secret library.

@@LilyGazou Sure... I mean, I've seen this renaissance for optical media, and I'm all for physical media. I do wonder about the other half of the equation for physical media, however. Sure, we have libraries of CD/DVDs, but will we have hardware to read them that works when digital goes up in flames?

Houses becoming smaller, denser, less space for shelves of physical media. Don't want to cart big boxes of discs around when you move. Discs easily dropped, lost, smashed. Optical Drives disappearing from prebuilt PCs as a way to cut costs, the rise of streaming services, etc. I'm surprised no company has tried a "physical media is BAD, try our streaming services" campaign, yet!

Amen to that!

Now that's a T-shirt or mug I'd buy...

Exactly. As a proud pirate, services like Spotify are worth paying for because until today they don't limit where, when and how I listen to my music (I still buy cd's, records to support my fav artists, and I still download my flacs.)

Iirc that was first said by Gabe N, head of Valve. It's no coincidence that Valve's Steam, as many problems as they've had over the years, is probably the most consistently liked distribution platform out there, despite being one of the oldest.

its a money problem for us Third worlders too.

it was a money problem when i was a kid, now im paying more for electricity, internet connectivity, hardware and time to maintain my pirate vessel than i'd pay for a bunch of streaming services, but nobody provides DRM free files at a competitive price point (or at all, to my knowledge), so clearly they don't want my money anyway. Doesn't bother me, I'm getting exactly what I want. (talking about tv/movies here. drm free music is plentiful, so that I'm buying.)

This is absolutely true. Also when too many companies split up in a field of media and require dozens of independent subscriptions for lesser services that have been partitioned into near oblivion, that also tends to put a final nail in the coffin. For example when I pay for Netflix and some shows or movies I want to watch suddenly drop out of my region's "content cycle", I jump straight to piracy - and will do with other services too. If they could just fix their shit, have decent and consistent libraries that don't prioritize some markets over others despite an equal cost for all, and the next-door piracy site offers a full unlimited library with no regional requirements, no signups, good quality, and no bs while also being up to date on all content.. Yea, piracy all the way. I'd love to pay for subscriptions that actually offer what they pretend to be in their marketing campaigns. Sadly, 99/100 services fail to live up to their marketing standards (and I haven't found that last 1/100 yet).

@@Real_MisterSir Steam and GOG are 2. Both for games, though. Totally different approaches to the problem. Both solved it wonderously.

Gabe Newell is a legend. I know many people here in Brazil that dropped piracy because of Steam. If you know anything about piracy in Brazil, that alone deserves some sort of achievement award. Just as a hint, some people take piracy as the default way to acquire things. Some of them don't even remember genuine hardware/software/media is a thing.

gabe newell is so cool, he says so much righteous shit. so glad a guy like that has been able to be successful. what valve and the steam deck have done for Linux gaming is unbelievable! Linux is now so close to being able to play all the games u can play on windows, and many old games which are not even playable on modern windows machines are playable on proton. god bless gabe newell!

Gaben the GOAT

They are beta cucks who would even defend clothing companies if they provide clothes on subscription

Solving piracy is easy...make the service/product cheap enough or value for money enough so that there is no incentive for piracy.

It's incredible that anti-piracy measures have become even worse over the years. Especially in the last few years, when DRM systems would noticably impact the performance of a game. What a better way to advertise piracy than to cripple or break the game of paying customers just in order to defend from those filthy pirates.

The consumer is happy but not the devs. There are stolen keys on gray market sites ripping off the devs. Thats the new age.

couldn't agree more. i pirate damn near everything. but you know what i pay for? steam and xbox gamepass. because they offer a good service.

I remember when I was 13yrs, I didn't have a job, and couldn't buy anything. Back in my day, 1980s, we called the software cracked, and waited hours to download a game over 1200 baud modem onto a 5 1/4" floppy, and then 3.5" floppy disks. Of boxes on boxes full of 3.5" floppy disks, easily, >98% was pirated. I would disagree with the thought, "Piracy is almost always a service problem", but I can understand and respect the perspective. When I got older, had a job, worked in engineering to create stuff, I had a stronger view against piracy, and an even stronger view than that, on IP theft (cough) ch*na (cough). As the same time, I'm greatly against the trend of no true ownership of digital content that you purchase.

Some are even illegal content. I don't know how Google gets away with this nonsense

yer you ate spot on about scam ads scam this qr code n so on bareskin joody tat I am surprised google dont stop them

I wish I could just pay for the no ads on UKposts and download to watch listen off line. I am not interested with all the other

If you think about it, isn't it also a form of natural selection? jokes aside, I think those scam ads are what is paying for youtubers

@@joshuavarghese619 Not having digital literacy does not naturally select anything. Nobody was born with the skills to be able to detect scam out of millions of ads they see.

You can still buy CDs. It’s less convenient than streaming them but that’s why most people dont

I still buy the CDs, and if I can't, I'll pirate the music. Seriously; I have a bunch of Audiophile gear, rip all my CDs to .FLAC and use the same IEMs and Headphones between my Desktop PC, my Audio system (CD, Records, Tapes, Minidiscs) and my Sony Walkman, and then they want to sell me a bunch of lossy MP3s (or M4As) for the same price as a CD? Hell No.

Agreed, big fan of steam and things like that but even they have some garbage issues, I wish we had a place where you can download load stuff and actually have it with no restrictions, I'd love to buy and play older games and movies and have them a ssd but since companies worship money over moral and ethical practices then starve the beast out, I'm very grateful for pirates and everything they do and soon digital stuff is going to be changed by ai to fit what ever propaganda the state wants to promote

@@kirerunte1046 Good Old Games sells lots of old games, the majority of which have no DRM at all and no download restrictions. Humble Bundle also - as long as you don't buy Steam keys or stuff from EA - sells DRM-free games. A lot of Indie games on Humble Bundle come with raw download files as well as optional Steam keys if you want them.

Time to buy a second computer and set it to guest mode to download all those stuff, and having second computers should help you in containing all those threats out of your main computer in case something is wrong when you pirate stuff (infected by viruses, ransomware, etc.) as long as it's not connected to the same network

@@sihamhamda47 You do know you can set up virtual machines, separate drives or partitions on one machine right? Maybe having another PC wouldn't be necessary?

This is why I don't even nab the free games on Epic Games Store. Can't use the content unless online. If you treat me like a pirate, I prefer to be a pirate

Right

What? Whoa suing Internet archives? Omg that's bad

@@SmedleyButler1 Publishers, especially those 'servicing' the education sector.

I'm old enough to remember the propaganda campaign that claimed cassettes were going to destroy the music business.

@@DennisHolmberg-sl1hz Ah yes, the people who change a few dozen words in a 1000 page book, call it a "new version" and charge you $100 for it. And you can't use last year's book, because it's "outdated."

especially when youtube has its way - its sad that the quality of the content get diminished as well

And notice piracy largely stopped/slowed when all the streaming content was on netflix. Now dispite having access to almost every platform i pirate because its easier on looking through a dozen services to watch possably only 1 or 2 seasons only to repeat for season 3 and so on.

Even some added ads on premium subscription so what was the point of buying the subscription😂.

It has been pointed out that people who pay for things like BluRay and DVD's have a worse experience than people who just pirate movies, since they don't have to sit through ads, and warnings, and don't worry about scratched disks and such.

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket This exactly. Steam's so damned convenient I have games I bought 2 years ago sitting, never even having been opened once. Why? Because it was on my wishlist and there was a hella good sale! I came from not being able to afford games and pirating them to buying ones I have no intention of playing in the near future because Steam has made it convenient. I don't worry about whether or not a game has a virus. The reason I don't pay for streaming services is because their selections are too limited. They should take a lesson from cable and all offer each other's original titles and pay them based on view or a percentage of ad revenue. Everyone wins. No customers misses out entirely. Might get it a week or a month late if it's through another service. That would retain the motivation from hardcore fans to switch to your service or pay for both.

Exactly why I got Crunchyroll premium. I was tired of all the invisible virus ads on pirating websites.

Not to mention media that's out of print, like retro console games. Some of those sell for obscene amounts of money on sites like eBay just because they aren't being made anymore. If you want to play a certain game without having to empty your bank account (assuming you can find a copy at all), the most logical course of action is to download a ROM and play it on an emulator. But we're not supposed to do that, because it's technically stealing, even though the company wouldn't be making money from the title either way, _because it's no longer being manufactured._ The only person making any money from the sale of said game is the person selling a copy they already owned.

Yeah, i‘ve also searched some game once and found it on this piracy site who‘s explicit goal it was to preserve games for future generations, and i LOVE that. There should be such a „library“ site for every kind of medium where they just put the digital version of whatever Book/Film/game/Music/etc. that‘s gone out of production or isn‘t supported anymore.

What do you mean by "I want those artist to get music"

Same with videogames, especially Nintendo. You can't buy games from like the 90's or whatever anymore, but if you download them you're supposedly a criminal. Fuck corporations.

@IP3278 oh okay! thanks

It’s really nasty here. Unskippable ads on a purchased hard copy that is so spiteful it makes me want to get it from international waters.

Thankfully we had, still have and use actually an education focussed DVD player and HDD based VCR combo device, that could skip the adverts just fine. It's interface is clunky as all heck and I'm basically the only one in the household who can properly use that thing, but we are keeping it in our setup for that reason. Nowadays PCs can skip the adverts too in e.g. VLC, but the fact they tried to prevent that is insane and indeed reason to pirate over buying it.

Cinemas are even worse, 20 minutes of ads, crying kids, laughing teenagers and that person who bought 5 plates of nachos sitting behind you. (+ you can't pause the movie when you need to pee)

Taking your input and forwarding it to EA (Electronic Assholes)

​@Bartosz Domagała plus its over priced and movies are just woke propaganda, I stopped going almost a decade ago, I'm very grateful for pirates and I hope they maintain the original stuff cuz eventually ai and the people in power will want to rewrite history

What's your home address? I'm totally justified in showing up and taking whatever I want.

Steam has local pricing. It is a pricing issue sometimes

Fun fact, I pay for Steam games and I'm happy they allow me to "start in offline mode" or whatever. I remember once being MAD at C* Games because I couldn't launch GTA: SA that was DOWNLOAD ON MY DEVICE just because I wasn't connected to the internet, so the C* Launcher couldn't verify that I own the game (even if I got it for free because it was for free for whoever downloaded their launcher at the time, doesn't make it right to not allow me to use it offline). It was in december 2019 BTW, and GTA: SA was the only game that would run on my gaming laptop while on battery power.

​@@retrocomputing i live in the country with local prices, but if in 2010 the only licensed game I owned was a u-boat sim on compact disk, in 2015 almost every game I played I had on steam just because it was more convenient (cloud saves, guides and stuff) and rewarding (achievements, cards and stuff) steam is the perfect example of defeating piracy via proper service but very often it's way easier to use cracked software than licensed (fuck you Adobe) cracked Photoshop literally works better and faster than ligit one supposedly because all of the license and autbentity checks

@@ser_igel or you were too young in 2010 which can explain why you had not enough money for a big game collection. Would you pay 60 USD for steam games if it's so convenient?

@@retrocomputing I mean yeah, if 60 bucks is literally a third of your monthly income

And you know what? If a game is on Steam it is often a better experience than pirating the game as Steam actually protects users from viruses. Not only that but you don't even have to buy directly from Steam and still use their service to download a game you bought from a 3rd party, which is why I keep coming back to Steam. If only Google or Apple were to allow that, but since they don't I'll never buy a single game from their app stores.

@@kingzach74 On that note I buy my games on Steam because I know that i am going to get great support if I have any problems, easy refunds, really good launcher, good service overall

GOG preferred, Steam second, and pirate third. F denuvo games and Epic Store games.

@@Maxrepfitgm This is the way

@@alierengam1749 Another benefit of steam is the steam workshop. It's so easy to install and play mods for a lot of games. It's a lot more conveneint than dowloading, then copy-pasting stuff.

Piracy defeated ? How and when ? I have pirated hundreds of GBs movies alone (not counting softwares, games etc). Literally pirating is just so convenient and easy and they claim they defeated it? I never paid for a streaming service, never paid for youtube premium, never paid for an app, never paid for a software.

​@@devendrapoonia1 It's a numbers game. You're just one person.

@@devendrapoonia1 Because there was a time when piracy wasn’t just mainstream, it was the default. I expect you know people - possibly as close as your very own family - who couldn’t pirate content, even if they wanted too. Let me introduce you to the 80’s where pirated video games, videos, cassettes etc were sold in shops on the high streets of every city in the Western world, and everybody bought their games, music and movies from there because why wouldn’t you. There was a brief revival in the Napster days, with it often coming complete bundled on prebuilds with a one click “get the top 40 this week” icon on the desktop. They know they will never stop you pirating, they don’t care - they also know that it’s a mosquito bite into their profits. What they really fear is people like you making it so easy for people like my mum that they can also pirate.

​@@rookievideos8865 we are many, i have it in good authority that half of the country i live in, pirates everything and i'm all for it.

Oh weren't the "don't pirate this content" videos on bought dvds the best 😒

Are you a bit thick?! Whenever did it become your business how companies sort out their business models? You as a consumer have one choice and one choice only, and that is to choose to not use the product if you dont like it. if you cant, well, tough luck kid, then do as the owner of the product tells you to do!

@@lillerosin2915 It is the DUTY of every Human to curtail *_excessively_* greedy businesses.

​@@lillerosin2915Did you just turn 12? Have fun with Daddy's credit card while it lasts.

May I ask for elaboration? I hold favor to his name but wish to know if I am buying into something not pleasant after so many years.

​@@fattestroyal198 Gabe's take is that Piracy is a Service problem; If you provide a legitimately good service, people would prefer it over piracy.

@@Dafuqinator7 Ah... That reaffirms me a touch. Thank you for explaining. I didn't want to assume anything, considering their own published games are easy as pie to run and archive.

Exactly this. Buying, managing and playing a huge number of games across multiple devices is so goddamn convenient now that I don't even remember the last time I've pirated a game. However my pirate hat is still working overtime on TV shows and movies.

@@DriantX Ya-harr. I think the modern media consumption methods should be rated arrr for ret-arrrr-ded

*are bastards. Fixed it for you.

i guess the current year version of that drm would be denuvo.

I dunno why you'd ever do that. Fry that egg to have a tasty snack for your upcoming gaming session!

Inglorious bastards...

Fast forward til 2023 and now you need 2 intrusive spyware programs constantly running on your PC to play any EA game.

I have to admit steam does make video games easy and the fact that they have or are developing a halfway decent Linux library of game compatibility is actually pretty damn cool Even if it doesn't match what's on Windows the fact that the starting to do it you know they started to do it they set off you know a set of falling dominoes that are that are continuing to fall and they're getting bigger and bigger it's like Elon musk with Tesla everyone gives him a hard time but but he started this revolution with electric cars there would not be electric Hyundai's and fucking electric key is and electric Ford explorers and f-150s if Elon didn't bring out the model s I mean come on we know this somebody has to be a pioneer and stand up and speak out against a crowd and they're going to be shouted down at first they have to have the perseverance to keep going

but some stupid boomer suits just cant get their heads around that.

Steam become a monopoly. Monopolies are never good in a capitalist system.

​@@cancan-wq9un if you look at things from a platform perspective, steam actually has to compete with other services like the epic games store, or cdprs store. And steam rarely enforces exclusives to maintain their position. However PC gaming's isn't the end all of gaming. Infact it's a small slice of gaming. With the majority being mobile (monopolised by apple and Google), and consoles (exclusive stores and what not). Even when valve built a console, they allow you to just install windows and do whatever you want on it. And mind you the base version of the steam deck is just as functional but sold at a loss. Valve have demonstrated that good service begets a goodarket position. The fact that they're one of the sole players is solely on the competition.

@@thej3799 yeah, steam still feels like a company run by some gamers. Which absolutely doesnt fit with any other out there at all. like epic is purely out for money, u can smell it.

this is what you get when zoomers don't understand file systems

@@polaris911 That is an amazing thought, that they never learned that bit of tech. However I see it differently. Us Gen X had to learn such things if we were to use computers but not all of us can use computers. Plenty of Gen X and Boomers think computers are some new thing, heck you've had about 30 years to get a clue. Where as the Zoomers all use computers even the ones who have no interest. Only nerds used computers in the 1980's and '90's but now everyone does. Nerds would learn about file systems but average people don't.

none of the paid services offer me an experience where I can watch almost all movies/shows at their full quality, I've always wanted a spotify for films etc but it looks like it will never happen so the only way to experience that is thru piracy

"I did the crime because it was more convenient than doing the right thing" is not a valid legal argument. With that being said, I certainly do not agree with the fact that these services are treating us in this way. If only people didn't keep rewarding their greed, they would soon revert back to a more acceptable model.

Thank you!

At that point it's not even piracy. You paid for the product, how you then watch it is up to you. Same reason running nintendo switch games on an emulator is technically legal if you bought the games in the first place

_Few months ago I wanted to show Lupin the Third movie to my GF, and since she's not from my country, we wanted to see it in English so that we could both understand and enjoy it. I decided to rent the view on UKposts itself, since it was available._ To be fair, that sort of thing might be caused by licensing issues. UKposts may have licensed the right to show the movie in your country, but the studio which owns the movie only allowed it to be shown there in your nation's language. This sort of thing pops up with streaming services like Netflix. While the U.S. version might have certain shows or movies available, in another country it may not because another provider already purchased the streaming rights and thus Netflix can't show it.

@@primmakinsofis614 You are probably right but that isn't my problem, as a streaming service licensing is your problem and, in essence, it's one of your own making anyway, so you'll have to forgive me if I can't summon the urge to care. 😁

This is why they want to make VPNs illegal, so it's easier to enforce their BS.

Ive run into the same problem with anime. Sometimes the dub or sub you want isnt available, also you have to put up with BS censorship. Fansubs are usually the best way to go.

Which is why I gave no money to Viz Media. I hate that company because that company hates my country, Canada.

Thing is though the big companies are their customers for Google and by extension UKposts , We are the product lol!

Why be surprised and angry that companies under capitalism are mainly looking to build capital.... companies and structurally designed to try and strike the perfect balance or shift you over slowly to whatever form will build up the most capital in the long run.

@@rg6427LMAO yeah CCP China and Socialist Venezuela NEVER take advantage of their people. One thing to argue its Corporate Crony Capitalism, to blame Capitalism as a whole is woefully ignorant

@@rg6427 The lobbyists and regulatory policies that limit competition to these companies are the problem, not "capitalism". If companies were allowed to compete fairly someone would have already dethroned these bonehead corporations screwing their customers. The way it's supposed to work is company screws their customers, customers go to a competitor that doesn't screw them. The way it actually works is competition is controlled and when a company screws their customers they can go to a "competitor" who is doing exactly the same thing.

I just discovered that I cannot stream 2160p to my monitor because video streaming services are worried about ripping the movie and sharing.

The level of corpo dronery just amuses me at this point. They still don't understand that all it takes is ONE dump to get into the wild, and their entire multimillion dollar layered technical annoyance stack is defeated, and attackers treat extracting and liberating that content like it's a fun puzzle to solve.

My Chromebook cannot play any streaming service in 4k despite having a 4k OLED screen due to DRM. So I cancelled all my subscriptions and now pay less than $3 a month for a debrid service which allows me to stream and download all the 4k content I want.

just now I'm obtaining John Wick 4 through unlegitimate means because I can't afford buying multiple streaming subscriptions cuz the content is scattered everywhere, I already have a netflix subscription, why do I need more.

@@dubl33_27 Because the CEO needs a new yacht you filthy peasant

And also those retarded companies can no longer claim that it's lost sales. YOU NEVER MADE A LEGAL SALE POSSIBLE. Region locked content needs to be pirated and that piracy needs to be legalized as well.

also because russia doesn't give a shit about the laws so they let all the russian piracy sites continue to operate with impunity.

The Russian also encourages it's people to pirate, hack, and steal anything they can from anyone besides Russia and China.

That's not necessarily the case. It's: a) lack of culture of paying for digital products; b) piracy is easy and while technically not legal, *effectively* it is; c) people are just poor and cannot justify paying for something so easily obtained for free. All of these apply to me and given the current media landscape - seems like it has pushed me towards the better choice.

I only see one of the supposed 4 answers to the original comment.

I ad to drop netflix after 2 decades when they hired obama. I put up with slower and slower deliveries, but damned if I will support a company paying that crook. They even started using edited movies. If I want that i'll watch it over the air.

Funimation for those who are wondering.

@@giantdad1661 crunchyroll also applicable

I used to have both Crunchyroll and Funimation but got rid of them because their Roku apps were absolute dogsh**. Then I go onto 9anime or any of the other dozen or so anime sites and get a better experience on all of them. I'd be stupid to pay for that.

Used to pay for CR but got frustrated with service issues, like buffering and then timing out mid-episode. Went back to fansubs. I have fibre internet, I can just download that episode in two seconds and I don't care about your copyright protections.

The adage: "don't cut off your nose to spite your face" comes to mind.

I'm getting close to installing an adblocker again, cause man... the ads experience is getting terrible. Two ads to start the video, two minutes in i get another ad, this one unskipable, then 15 seconds later another ad break.

@Reagan Harder youtube vanced my man.

@@reaganharder1480 Dont wait Reagan, it was a game changer for me.

@@JamesGrim08 YT is essentially unusable without AdBlock..

That isn't "this sucks"; it's fraud.

@@Theranthrope yeah, I tend to agree with your assessment. And when I paid for an ad to promote my music, that didn't count towards my eligibility. But organic growth is actually really difficult, and perhaps partly because Google controls the game. There's just so many win-lose scenarios with them, and they're always on the winning side.

Well I draw the line there. I can use UKposts as a free video cloud hosting service that runs pretty damn well. I can still make an unlisted recording of the leak in my window to send the landlord. I figure putting ads on my crappy playthroughs that barely anyone watches anyway is a way of them getting some money back for the free hosting.

YT putting ads on videos of creators who don't qualify for ad revenue makes sense to me. They still have to pay to host the videos, and from their perspective it isn't worth the accounting hassle to pay out small creators $1.37 once a year for the tiny number of views they've received.

@@NeilHaskins Something is either monetizable or it isn't, but UKposts, a for-profit corporation, is lying about what isn't mobilizable (often for biased religious reasons) and ripping off the creators the platform _would not even exist_ without. This is never "fine" even if it's a fraction of a cent of un-earned ad-revenue.

Un-skippable ads on dvds should be a crime. Ugh I hate that with a passion. Perhaps I should rip them to digital and create a digital media library.

My favorite are the anti-piracy ads that play on DVDs ...that I purchased.

@@joeboo8626 Yeah I NEVER understood why they put them on the frigging BOUGHT films, cause miraculously the pirated versions never have them attached 😂

@@platty9237 it's a fun hobby and upscaling on good tvs make them look pretty good. You can also get DVDs very cheaply with a huge selection right now at thrift stores.

@@blacky_Ninja "Lets throw a little bit of menacing propaganda that threatens to ruin peoples lives before they relax with a movie, that'll really set the mood!"

It's more of a question of creators choosing that particular service. When I learned about the ad block ban, I first considered alternatives like internet archive. But there are barely any creators uploading their videos there. Like the main reason why pirates get better experience is that UKposts isn't a platform where permanent downloads are an intended feature. Like for example one could imagine a GOG equivalent but for videos where one buys videos DRM-free for 1-to-few Dollars. But it wouldn't be anywhere near as cost-effective as UKposts Premium. Also almost no one actually seems to want to sell downloadable videos. Personally I won't even bother using the download feature of UKposts Premium.

And hence why I have never supported drm shit and never will I have actively worked against it instead since it's not justifiable It's the same bs as the MPAA has tried for decades with region coding which serves zero real purpose other than their attempt to divide up the planet and use such bs to prefix things starting the consumer Like old DVDs retail in the US for say $40 yet they sell the same content with dirr region code in say india for $5 and are making a big profit none the less The only reason the code is that is to stop most imports from working and therefore poof price fixing in a supposed legal manner DRM since has only made it worse

Its true. Even my college’s digital textbooks were RENTED. I rented the pixels of a book for $130….

AND when they can "expire" your "unused" money, then we're in deep sh!t.

neo-feudalism

There is one theoretical argument. Since now advertisers pay for youtube, youtube censor content as they pleases eg don't promote videos with guns and "violence". Theoretically if viewers paid for youtube, youtube would promote content based on viewers preferences, not advertisers. I however do not believe that could ever happen.

People are paying for UKposts, they're paying with their time and more directly some are paying through YT Premium. If Premium allowed you to watch a class of content that wasn't tailored to suit advertiser sensibilities, which unfortunately makes up 99.99% of content today, it might be a more compelling buy. Instead, they expect you to pay for sponsored videos and content sanitized for corporations.

I think it's worth it. Ad free videos, and I get UKposts Music along with it. And I'm a student so it's cheap

i paid for youtube music. yes on my laptop i still use adblock anyway.

@@defiik as a student, I get it for a dollar. It’s hella cheap

It's as almost as if they treat their paying customers as potential pirates. If the shoe fits ......

Simple let the pirate win and as for the companies ether they back down and try remove every bs they added in their system unless a company try use the Public Service aka Government to interfere and attack the pirate site.

I mean between the very comfy-looking arm-chair, his soft and deep voice, the cats wandering around and the overall lack of movement, it's such a relaxing thing to watch it feels a bit like ASMR to me XD but it IS a very nice change of pace, compared to how most videos try to be "as engaging" as possible.

You are :) thank you ! He is very good.

I bet someone will make a video about his way of presenting someday, maybe Charisma on Command.

Jump cuts every 2 seconds are BRAIN MELTING! And they're EVERYWHERE! I miss the old internet.

The California Cannabis trade is dying on the legitimate side because of over regulation, very high license and taxing - they are unable to compete with the street product. Even the cartel bosses understand markets these days.

People don't seem to understand this in the comment sections and there are people legitimately siding with big businesses and their anti-consumer practices. They would rather have a bad, overcharged service than a cheap and convenient service because they want to virtue signal that they are "good people." There is nothing good about supporting bad business models, and if a business can't provide a better service than someone else can, they should be ready to deal with that competition, legitimate business or not.

@@trevormoney8126 I see this every day, where people bend over backwards to protect multi billion dollar companies greedy and shitty business model, and then just go like: If you dont like it dont buy it. And they dont realise that things get worse for consumers precisely beacuse of them. I wish we lived in the world where the masses would vote with their wallet and stand up to corporate greed, but that's why most companies aim to become monopolies so that you really dont have the option to go elsewhere. Capitalism is supposed create healthy competition, but when you allow a few players to set the rules for everyone else is when you get to where we are today.

@@fredericrike5974 I don’t know the ins and outs nor the logistics, but maybe Cali should go the Oklahoma route? It’s medically legal there but atp it’s such a huge ass thing it might as well be recreational. Doesn’t hurt that in the small town I lived in you could get 7 solid pre rolls for 20, 5 blunts for 20, hell you could get damn near an ounce of some decent flower for yet another 20. Of course there’s things I’m likely missin but hey, I just want more weed shops across the globe tbh lol. Place would a lot happier and a lot hungrier.

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​@@wayland7150 and CEI

Linus from LTT does this to some Nintendo games.

​@@ajbp95 Pokemon fan here. That's what a lot of romhackers do.

I do exactly that!

thanks for watching 500 years worth of ads on behalf of the comment section ❤

And giving google a cut of your super thanks

@@KhanJoltrane Yeah, Louis should just publish some account number where people can send money directly without having to share "service fees" (probably at least 30%) with Google.

you should've just buy his merch as it goes directly to him, this 25 you did mostly goes to google

He probably makes less on products,here he probably will make 40%. Definitely not making 40% of products

Also, if you somehow get an exceptionally good quarter for some reason, going back to normal will be seen as a failure and people on top are currently required by law to match the earnings. So, having a sudden positive period will actually spell doom for any company, since they would then be coerced in doing shady, idiotic and anti consumer/worker stuff to not get destroyed by the markets and shareholders.

Yea this is supported by political economists and ex bankers

​@@Anankin12 what about youtube music. dont tell me you pay for spotify

@@defective1331 I use ReVanced, I don't use Spotify at all and I don't pay.

@@defective1331 but what does that have to do with anything

🍻 makes it easier to hide controversial opinions

And that's another way of fucking with us. YT dgaf. Never will again. Time to migrate.

UKposts has been delusional for a while now and that was the most recent I remember. there were community captions which they took away and basically limited what the community could give back to the creator.

"If you want to see older videos just scroll down" They don't even care about our pain of scrolling through a video feed in channels who are already uploaded thousands of videos just to find the first video uploaded on every channel

@@homework8969 Yep community captions REALLY annoyed me. Was doing captions for a foreign creator I liked, now they don't get any translations anymore. Good fkn job google, pissing on all deaf and foreign viewers.

@@PoutingTrevor If a company has a monopoly on Shoulder Press machines and won't sell anything other than gym membership, I'm gonna go get one illegally anyway just so I don't have to get harassed by personal trainers mid set.

​@@PoutingTrevor except that they literally advertise it as though you can watch it offline.

@@PoutingTrevor 🤦

​​​​​@@PoutingTrevorYes and no. Information, unlike physical items, doesn't have scarcity. If I watch a Netflix movie, I'm not occupying one of several limited seats of a movie theatre on the server. The server is copying that movie, and sending a new copy to my computer. One that didn't exist before you asked to watch that movie. Now you and the server both have the movie. Except your copy is enclosed under several layers of encryption that only specific programs and hardware on your computer understand how to work with, to create artificial scarcity out of something that inherently doesn't have any. Because if you also knew how the decoder worked, you could make additional copies out of the one the server gave you, and they don't like that. They'd compare it to you stealing the movie roll at the cinema and leaving everybody without movie, but that's just not how this works. The server still gets to keep the movie regardless of what you do.

@@PoutingTrevor yea, but......the word "MEMBERSHIP" is literally on your gym receipt 🤣but when I "Buy a movie"...... I AM NOT BUYING A MEMBERSHIP BRUV lmaooo 🤣

Less incompetent, more they only care about the bottom line and will take whatever convenient excuse is fed to them

The execs and shareholders are the rich idiots who have no idea how a "normal" person lives and is not interested in doing so.

lost sales is a fallacy. I divide movies into categories: 1) big budget spectacles that need to be seen in the movie theatres (these are rare now but were common 10-15 years ago), movies I'd pay to see, movies I'll see if they happen to cross my path, movies I'll never see. If I pirate a movie that falls into the last two categories, I would have never paid for it in the first place and would have just skipped it if it came with a price tag, so there is no lost sale, I just happened to watch it because I was on a plane at the time or a friend hired it or something. So lost sales is actually far smaller than they would have you think because it assumes the user would have paid for that movie or content willingly if piracy wasn't an option.

Rather than incompetence it is a money grab. The lie that every copy made is a lost sale allows them to engage in extortion using the courts. They also use the lie to get egregious laws passed. The lie is even more extreme when they apply it to developing countries.

@@dragonstooth4223 actual studies have been conducted multiple times, including by commission from the media giants. every one has turned-up the same results that there is little to no [likely NO] correlation between piracy and lost sales. the public is not made aware of these results because it's unfavorable to the false narrative the companies need us to buy. it's absolutely a fallacy. specifically, counting chickens before they hatch. something that at least some of us had drilled into our brains well before having the overall concept of fallacies explained to us.

And its absolutely laughable what basic functions youtube premium has, twitch is free and can play in the background, youtube needs 10 dollars a month for that, and its horrendous that if I watch a youtube video, pause it, go to my pc, open youtube and click the same video that I was just watching either replays completely or starts 5 minutes ago from where I was just at and if I pay 10 dollars I can watch it from the same second I was just at, and lastly the watchlist feature is not even that useful as i just open multiple tasks on my pc anyway

like a year ago I had same situation with rdr2, customer service were useless, random peron on reddit solved my problem by offering me to delete version.dll file.

@@lmpoopingpigeon May I ask, which file was he referring to?

I've been having the same problem trying to launch GTA V. Why can't a game just start up when I buy and download it? Why do I need to have multiple accounts to enjoy even ONE game?

@@andrewryan3084 in the game folder, where is the exe file located there is file named version.dll

Had same situation with gta 4. I bought a disc version back when it was released. I tried to install it again years later but I couldn’t cause their outdated launcher did not recognise my cd key… I even contacted rockstar and they didn’t do anything… of course i pirated gta 5. Even though I think it’s great value for money, why would I give them money again after they robbed me of something else I bought from them?

Idgaf if you block ads but your justification doesnt make sense. The service provider decides the cost.. i dont wanna seem like a bootlicker but its not up to you to decide what the compensation for the service is

​@Paulie sure it is, we don't have to compensate at all if the price is too much or the product isn't worth the cost

@@bigPauliee I stopped watching TV because of ads decades ago.. the internet was cool for a while then it became worse than television.. I'll be damned if something unwanted pops up on my screen and I agree with smokey glasses it's pollution, visual pollution in the landscape, and mental pollution to persuade you to something, it's vile and agressive and they spent the millions and the research to get to you... I'll allow myself any countermeasures available.

@@kirerunte1046, so stop using the service. Creators are entitled to ask for compensation (you surely don't work for free) and you are not entitled to free content.

what are you talking about?! the streets and roadside ARE ads free... oh, wait! youre from MURICA aren't you?! xD

hear hear

I agree and the service they provide is worse then what the pirates provide, I would love a thing like steam for old games and movies but even they have link to garbage stuff like uplay and ea and the drm is trash, pirating is the only way until these garbage companies start worshipping morals and ethics over money

@@kirerunte1046 steam is great when you dont play games by shitty devs The DRM is unintrusive, the support does their job, Proton for Linux is wicked, and you can add games to your library that you have pirated/obtained DRM free It is an example of a service worth paying for, which isnt conducive to piracy. You only pirate steam games when you dont wanna pay the cost, or when the dev included their own DRM layer, which is always clunky

​@@cooked.gaming Can you play them offline? All of the existing single-player games on steam, offline?

Based.