@OP - These are the people I’m talking about.

Thanks for being a demonstrating example.

It kind of does matter. If you’re hot-swapping in and out nearly all of the time for this and that, that is considered suspicious activity. If you knew a single thing about how networking works, they can see just about anything. Where you went, the unencrypted data that is sent and received and vice versa. They may not know exactly the file you downloaded or the page specifically you’re at, but they can put two and two together if they think your activity lines up with the data it is coming from and to.

And once again, I have said, if you read at all, downloading gigs and gigs in a single day. You’re bringing up streaming which is something they’d know and expect by now, so of course it’s not going to bring attention. They also are aware that VPNs are advertised so much that they probably expect you to hop around to stream something you can’t normally.

They’re not going to directly ask you why you’re using a VPN, they’re more than likely going to ask you why are you using so much data up on X date and Y date? And then they could ask you what purpose did you have visiting this site at those dates too.

My point is about the amount of consumption you put into downloading many files, they don’t give a damn about your streaming habits since they know very well we’ve been in the age of streaming for a while now.

Kinda wish you’d be a little more detailed here.

So while everyone is telling you what to use. Let me tell you about how to behave as a pirate, least suggestively, not strictly. You need to not be a blip on the radar. Well how’s that? You don’t download gigs and gigs of data in a single day, you have to be a little more spread than that. Because even if you’re safe under VPN and everything, if an ISP thinks you’re being suspicious at any degree, they’re gonna look into it.

I make sure I don’t download more than I can chew and since I’m on a data cap of 350GB a month, it helps me enforce this. I’ve been at it for well over 25+ years so by this point, I’ve about acquired a lot of what I wanted so I’m in a little of my winding down period.

Try not to listen to the pirates that just boast about themselves and their habits, they’re doing things you don’t know about and are probably above your skill since obviously you claim to be very new at this.

People just have a very poor sense of organization or proper placement. I feel a lot of the political doom and gloom posts are from those who feel like not “enough” is talked about something, when it apparently already is, so they throw it here.

But for a while now, yeah it’s tiresome to try and turn every single thing into another political box.

Garbage.

It’s still baffling to know that 87% of nearly all games are on the verge of or already had been forgotten because the industry operates on this mantra of “if we don’t think it’ll turn a profit, don’t bother with it and if anyone pirates it we’ll still profit through lawsuits!”. If they truly have had it their way and no opposition gets in between them, they would happily have let so many libraries die out. And then we’ll only be left with regurgitated bundles that they hand pick themselves, to release.

Your nostalgia is just simply another marketing strategy.

We’ll see if it even stand the test of time, how it takes on weather .etc

But that’s what makes GIMP special. There’s some users who feel that Photoshop has stopped being relevant for some uses among those users. GIMP may be a decade behind but it could be swimming in what people remembered best about Photoshop before its enshittification and retains that kind of nature.

The day the Internet Archive was being attacked and sued, was the signal.

They released the original Anniversary Collection (Mixed 8-Bit and 16-Bit games) in 2019, Advance Collection (The GBA games + Dracula X on SNES) in 2021 and the Dominus Collection (The DS games) last year. So, there’s probably some hope that maybe the next collection would probably, maybe have Symphony of the Night, Rondo of Blood, the Game Boy games, the N64 games and maybe a few PS2 ones? I don’t know where they could go from there but that’s all that’s left as to what to re-release.

Either way, I don’t have all the time in the world for them to get around to it.

Thanks for posting this.

I long gave up though on the PSP version beforehand, though am keeping it around because there are some games that I never got the chance to play on the PSP. So I pirated them and kept everything PSP for future use.

The remake on the PSP, feels so damn stiff! Like you make an action, you’re committed to it and you have almost no way to change course or immediately pounce out of a situation. That was what was pissing me off so much and I failed so many times trying to get to Stage 4 and figure out where I needed to go in it to unlock the game. The guides are vague and no videos that I watched really showed where you had to go.

So I returned to trying to pirate the Turbo Grafix, the Turbo CD (acquiring all BIOs) and downloaded at least 3 files of Rondo of Blood. After much tinkering, trying and error, I finally have a working copy. And in that game, the flow of the game felt much smoother than the remake, reinforcing my feelings earlier about the remake on the PSP.

Again - fuck Konami.

They threw Dracula X into the collection with the GBA games. That made no sense, lol.

Unsure if a moral-boosting image or just OP overlaying a pirate-bdsm mistress image with moral images and text.

Well, people may feel like they don’t have a right to things. But my problem with that kind of a stance is, why do we allow and enable these kinds of companies who feel it is their right to deny, remove and refuse to distribute legal alternatives? It seems like we feel it is our right to at least enjoy something we’d like to have.

And this moreso applies to people who actually have paid for things. Like for example, online games. One of these days, sometime or another, some big MMORPG is going to be pulled offline for good. And you, a faithful player, has put lots of time, effort and even money into the game for years which would make you a loyalist to it. But the game is pulled offline now and the company will not ever make an offline mode. They just cart out the same old song and dance of “Thank you for your years of support, blah de blah, we’re going to go now and uh, thanks for your money too, goodbye” and that’ll be that.

I mean, wouldn’t that be a little off-setting to you? Sure there’s some gullible people out there who happily piss away a lot of things and in some strange unironic way, accept this kind of practice. But there’s lots of other people who want to keep going on for however long and they too could very well have been paying customers. Shouldn’t it be their right to continue enjoying that game or should they just walk away disgruntled and jaded because they now see their investments as an entire waste?

The whole idea of whoever and whatever has a right to what is entirely case-by-case and subjective. I don’t feel I have a right to everything in a store I work at, I have to pay for something to have it and I’m not going to act like I have a right like I do have them otherwise. What I feel I have a right to, is to go and grab copies of things I know very well that no company is going to lift a finger in ever re-purposing for everyone to enjoy once again because they operate on some stubborn arbitrary system with themselves.

And if people want to take into account about the idea of respecting creators and everything? Dude, a lot of disrespect goes around to creators from these companies that helped create. It’s very well-documented at this point. I now am starting to see pirating as just a way to gain a little sense of redemption for those disrespected creators who have to tolerate their bosses that have absolutely no clue or care in the way in how these things operate.

So why do you pirate then?

The main reasons people pirate are:

• Affordability concerns
• Corporate Greed
• Region-Locked/Deliberate Unavailability (Not releasing content in other countries, exclusivity .etc)
• Refusal to meet Demand and Supply
• It’s Free, so I’m going to get it
• Dismantled Consumer Rights

Don’t get me wrong, I would have happily bought a copy if it was available. But because of 1, 3, 4 and 5 alone completely justifies pirating.

This is how they want things designed. They want us to just consume, consume and consume. Then just dump away whatever we previously enjoyed because they really believe that we have short-term memories or that we won’t ever revisit what we once enjoyed. They want you to think that there is a limit to everything when the obvious truth of the matter when it comes to digitally available items is that there is no such thing.

You can keep a file going and going by transferring, it’ll last as long as you intend it to last up until you lose interest or die.

Hell, they’ve gone after the Internet Archive, which has been compared to today as the modern burning of Alexandria. They just don’t want anything preserved, regardless of how old it is and how long it has been since the creator or anyone involved has died. Nostalgia is just simply another marketing strategy and that has long been put to practice for a good long while now.

Limited physical goods is one thing, we can’t promise about how long we’ll have the resources for to continue making physical things, I get that.

But digital mediums and trying to limit ‘stock’ is such a laughable concept to me.

Not really. Youtubers are like celebrities. Has PewDiePie done anything significant to help make a better change? No, he hasn’t.

Until these things are actually building skyscrapers in hours, I’m not concerned.

Why should we care what a multi-million dollar youtuber uses for an OS? He can afford to build computers for each OS at their highest specs in his range. I’m not going to be brow-beaten by this chump either.

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