Piracy

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Disclaimer

This guide is for educational purposes only! Piracy is illegal and you should support small creators and not pirate from them. This guide is also written half as a shit post, half serious. I won't list what part is what.

Do you like watching media in your spare time? Don't you hate that you need a Netflix, Hulu, and like 50 more accounts just to watch whatever the current new trendy show is? Don't you hate the anti consumer practices that Jedi Survivor is imposing on PAYING CUSTOMERS? Don't you wish you were in control of what you want, when you want, even without internet? Well do I have the not very legal solution for you, piracy!

Piracy? What's that?

Let's start with what piracy isn't, piracy isn't stealing, the original content is where it was, piracy is making a copy of paid content without the copyright holders permission. If I sent you a .wbfs of "No More Heros 2: Desperate Struggle" for the Nintendo Wii, that would be piracy as you did not pay for that copy of the game, but if I handed you the disk of the game, that wouldn't be, since I no longer have my copy and you have one. No new copies were spawned.

If it's illegal, why would someone do it?

There's a good list of reasons why people pirate. A few of the major ones are listed below.

Offline backup/Archive

Some streaming services have a download feature in their apps, but you're limited to whatever qualities they provide, their subtitles, and the downloads expire if you don't go online for a certain amount of time. For gaming, it could be to get better performance, as most DRM (Digital Rights Management) solutions come with performance hits.

Region locked content

this is also known as racism

Region locking is what stops you from putting a Japanese copy of a game into your 3DS, or watching the US version of The Office in Canada whenever it hits the Netflix rotation. The only valid use for it I can see is banning something in a region where content is illegal, but that shit is cringe an unbased.

Subscription Hell

This idea doesn't try to paint piracy as archival or to make it seem legal or just. This is just to not want to spend $15/mo on 8 different services just to watch the shit you want to watch. The table below shows the costs of legal streaming vs downloading your media.

This sounds awesome, how can I start?

I see you've decided to sail the seven seas, the next pages will have tools and links to sites to help start your adventures.