It's amusing when millionaire "business geniuses" don't understand that if people don't own what they buy, they'll eventually stop buying anything... Oh, and thumbs up on the SP > Fogo comment. Going to SP for my b-day in a few days. The pequana (spelling?) is great!

@rossmanngroup

5 ай бұрын

SP Steakhouse in Lakeway destroys any fogo de chao in any state

@Hikaeme-od3zq

5 ай бұрын

Oh they know, they just don't give a shit as long as other people keep buying, just look at Apple and their scummy tactics, don't seem to me like they're hurting, people are still buying.

@jo4370

5 ай бұрын

Happy late birthday :)

@blackdandelion5549

5 ай бұрын

I think it goes beyond the fact people will not purchase it, but people will find other ways to get their needs and wants met and that easily leads to piracy. These companies fail to realise that the consumer or at least part of the consumer group will have a reaction they do not want. I have personally found that when some higher ups in companies make decisions they lack the awareness of their customer base and think of their own personal live where they have a good income, could afford the product or item easily, and expect the same from their customers when the customer base is drastically different than them in economic means, in the use of the product and may not care about some "new features" that would make all of the old plug ins for the product no longer work, and simply lack awareness of what the customer base wants and who they are. Sometimes in discussions with peers we have wondered why companies looking for more income do not look at the plug ins people are using with their product and DIY modifications and simply make those as they have the foundational knowledge to make them work effectively with multiple generations of the product and sell some of the plug ins or cloud storage to go directly with their products. Customers are getting their needs met through other places and if that means the original company is cut out due to their business model then I would put that on them and their terrible research in ignoring their customer base and taking advice from people, like lawyers and business people, who don't even use the product.

@moscanaveia

5 ай бұрын

Billionnaires have been in this business of scamming customers further and further since capitalism began. They don't get bankrupted over it, unlike what you may think

As Cory Doctorow said in his article today: If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

@binaryp69

6 ай бұрын

I looked up the article and its very good, but what he actually said was 'As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":' This is like that Micheal Scott Wayne Gretzky bit lol

@andljoy

6 ай бұрын

100% right .

@sylvainfrancoeur5905

6 ай бұрын

Wow, amasing... no one ever pirated apple so far!!!! :D

@joizz5932

6 ай бұрын

@@sylvainfrancoeur5905 yeah they have? Search up a hackintosh

@FireFox64000000

6 ай бұрын

The way I see it is if you bought the software it's not piracy.

Piracy isn't just justified, it's become a moral imperative for preservation.

@silentlyjudgingyou

6 ай бұрын

seconded

@nahtesalinas1917

6 ай бұрын

*THIS*

@furiousdestroyah9999

6 ай бұрын

For real, giving anything to companies is immoral af

@TheBenSanders

6 ай бұрын

Piracy of Linux ISOs, right? ;)

@aj.j5833

6 ай бұрын

@@TheBenSanders Linux is open source and many UI people now charge for were stolen from those who originally made them to be free to anyone who wanted to download and use them and try to improve it and/or give feed back to those that are how to and where to improve.

I suspect they're gonna find out that perpetual liscences are legally enforceable. Also, failure to delete personal information when requested is a felony.

@Dr.Twat.Waffle

5 ай бұрын

exactly this. contracts go both ways. seems companies just keep thinking they can get away with pulling ridiculous illegal shit like this and people put up with it.

@alexanderleonardi3625

5 ай бұрын

the law doesnt decide the law. the rich do.

@armorclasshero2103

5 ай бұрын

@@alexanderleonardi3625 patently false. Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman Fried fafo'd. Any attempt to attack contract law would result in mutually assured destruction.

@CVE42287

5 ай бұрын

​@@alexanderleonardi3625No they don't, but you're probably not going to come out on top without money of your own

@WillockFlame

4 ай бұрын

​@@CVE42287class action

If pirating something gives you a superior service it really leaves you thinking... What are we even paying for at this point?

@youtubeuniversity3638

5 ай бұрын

To reward the few who are better and to get early access to the not yet pirateable and for the rest either sheer ignorance or moral standards we don't ourselves see as agreeable.

@whiskizyo2067

3 ай бұрын

The CEO's fourth house

@yeetdabeans3883

2 ай бұрын

to get the pirated copies out faster

@godsamongmen8003

2 ай бұрын

You're paying for actors, editors, cinemetographers, set designers, programmers and sound engineers to do the hard work of making a show you enjoy. Or you're stealing.

@Yomush

2 ай бұрын

@@godsamongmen8003 All of these people you mentioned already got paid by the hour :)

Also, the "we can't delete your personal data, only transfer it to a new license" is a clear violation of GDPR if they have customers in the EU

@JamesTDG

6 ай бұрын

You know for a fact they do.

@docjoesweeney

6 ай бұрын

@@JamesTDG Report and fine. I will also be asking them to remove my data.

@JohnThelin

6 ай бұрын

They're in Sweden, so they're also subject to Swedish data retention laws which at least used to be some of the most restrictive in the EU, rivaled only be Germany AFAIK. GDPR may have superseded this, however.

@EdgyNumber1

6 ай бұрын

​@@JohnThelinGDPR sets the baseline level, Sweden can choose to be much stricter if they'd like.

@GeometricPidgeon

6 ай бұрын

@@EdgyNumber1 correct, EU law cannot just interfere with national law, EU works very well for setting a good baseline. This is a misconception lots of people have, even those in the EU.

"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gabe Newell, Valve

@trentvlak

6 ай бұрын

True, I guess. When it comes to video media, I don't think it's possible to provide something better.

@dadudeme

6 ай бұрын

​@@trentvlakbut providing a better service is definitely possible. Make it easy to buy and install and people will pay at least a small amount of money for it.

@73_65

6 ай бұрын

@@trentvlak Oh but it is, all it takes is making a streaming service that doesnt screw with people for no reason and if users can download the video, dont add anything to interfere with the user's viewing of the video. The average user doesnt want or need anything particularly fancy, just a service that works reliably, without screwing with them, without making things needlessly complicated, and without being an eye-sore. If KZread didn't needlessly screw over content creators and viewers for no valid reason, instead focusing on making their platform the best platform it could possibly be, I would actually consider disabling the ad blockers I use since I can't afford to pay for ad free viewing.

@sfcoawol6273

6 ай бұрын

from the person that implemented a drm system into their steam api, single handedly destroyed physical media for gaming and makes a family sharing system that is completely useless as an actual game family share. he says one thing and does something completely different and apparently people will still worship the ground he walks on.

@73_65

6 ай бұрын

@@sfcoawol6273 On one hand I agree with you, on the other I wonder how much power he really has anymore.

He doesn’t sound salty, he sounds like a rational human being.

@uNiels_Heart

2 ай бұрын

He may sound salty, but in a very justified way. At least I know I'd be salty, too.

@Lemendeer

2 ай бұрын

We are at a point where not being angry is the unreasonable decision. Be angry they Fuck us over at every front.

@erinberg3365

2 ай бұрын

I recently tried to reinstall my Waves Gold plugins purchased in 2016 only to be told that the product I paid full price for was now under a subscription model and if I wanted to use my plugins I would have to pay for a subscription. Feels shit.

@TherealTenmanI

2 ай бұрын

I misread the message due to not reaching that point in the video. I assumed you were sarcastic. I offer my apologies. Now I just think you are wrong.

@m4rcyonstation93

2 ай бұрын

​@@TherealTenmanIlmao

IF BUYING A MOVIE MEANS I DO NOT OWN IT THEN PIRATING MEANS THAT I DID NOT STEAL IT

@DJUwU

Ай бұрын

I agree...you just have to be careful with your ISP provider...because they will stop your service... But with a VPN or something...all of a sudden...no more problems (just be careful about downloading at maximum bandwidth speed because VPNs will kick you off if you're trying to do like 50mbps for a few hours - and it will switch you back to normal internet if you're not careful...)

I don't call it piracy, I call it privateering since it's basically industry sponsored piracy at this point.

@annelisemeier283

6 ай бұрын

I like the way you think

@BQD_Central

6 ай бұрын

I steal that, that's great :) Sorry, I mean "seize that" for my privateering endevaours.

@smugfrog8111

6 ай бұрын

Based. My PC identifies as a Corsair (basically a legal pirate ship, not the brand of PC parts).

@l979corvette

6 ай бұрын

I call it preservation lol

@McDudes

6 ай бұрын

​@@BQD_Centralprivateering endeavors is now my favorite phrase

If a company can revoke your "purchase," you did not "purchase" it. You rented it with a TBD due date. They should be prohibited from marketing such transactions as you "buying" or "purchasing" and instead be required to label it as a perpetual or conditional rental.

@username7763

6 ай бұрын

Purchasing something with the rights to use it at their pleasure is purchasing no rights at all.

@marcogenovesi8570

6 ай бұрын

@@username7763 it's not a purchase

@irrelevant_noob

6 ай бұрын

Not perpetual, that was the whole issue. ;-)

@LRM12o8

6 ай бұрын

Exactly. "Purchase" or "Buy" should mean permanent ownership always! These software/tech companies need to be held criminally liable for their theft!

@kaden-sd6vb

6 ай бұрын

they *technically* do tell you.... just in the form of a 700 page EULA in legalese incomprehensible to the average person. just one of the ways corps ignore/skirt around the law.

"Piracy will continue to exist as long as companies continue to act in anti-consumer garbage ways" I completely agree with that. I've been burned a few times over the years by perpetual licenses that were later expired, features were taken away, or restrcted from normal usage.

@BritishKingdomtigers.

18 күн бұрын

Stand up against piracy!!!,piracy is a crime just like bootlegging is a crime!!!!!,never commit piracy!!!!!!!!,I am not pirating stuff anymore!!!,and I am NOT using pirated software anymore

@BritishKingdomtigers.

18 күн бұрын

I hate piracy!!!

Immagine buying a car from a dealership to have them come back 10y later to sabotage it since they fell like you used your car of your property for long enough

@uNiels_Heart

2 ай бұрын

How are Tesla faring in that regard? Could they decide to shut your car down?

@conspiracypanda1200

2 ай бұрын

​@@uNiels_HeartYeah, actually. They turn the self driving mechanisms off all the time to avoid being labelled as responsible for crashes and deaths on a legal technicality. And since Teslas also recieve software updates, many drivers have found themselves locked out of or otherwise unable to use their vehicle on the company's whim.

@TheCajunBeauty

2 ай бұрын

That's why they want everyone to drive an electric vehicle so they can do just that or even turn it off if they don't like your opinion on something. We'd live in a time where we would have to hack our own car just to drive to work. I fear some horrible times are ahead.

@uNiels_Heart

2 ай бұрын

@@TheCajunBeauty That sounds like the worst possible version of the future. If that happens, rest assured that there will always be people ready to create libre after market firmware for the cars (like it happens for phones) or if that's not possible maybe even own cars (also happens with phones). Fortunately, rebels cannot be completely suppressed and thoughts cannot be policed.

@koekiejam18

Ай бұрын

@@TheCajunBeautythis is utter BS, a car doesnt need to be electric to be shut down remotely, most cars made after 2010 have enough electronics to be shut down remotely. Even if it has a V8

Modern companies not fucking over the customer challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

@cookies23z

6 ай бұрын

hahaha

@bemusedlist9242

6 ай бұрын

This is the comment i realized they removed dislikes from youtube comments i use youtube pro

@CRANEREVIEWS

6 ай бұрын

@@bemusedlist9242 comments had dislikes?

@GaffsNotLaffs

6 ай бұрын

@@bemusedlist9242dislikes on comments have been outright non-functional for over a decade now

@elevatorz89

6 ай бұрын

@@CRANEREVIEWSThey did, once upon a time.

I used to be against piracy. But ever since these companies show their true colors, I am all for it.

@ReySchultz121

6 ай бұрын

I'd like to hear your story. Sounds interesting despite my lack of context or understanding of it.

@knox7945

6 ай бұрын

@@ReySchultz121 there's not much too say honestly. I just thought that back then, these companies may not care for you, but at least they are willing to produce quality games. That is until recently that these companies are spitting at the fans, the ones who gave them money, time, love, and care for their products, only to be robbed despite paying and somewhat loyal to their business. That is it, pirate them all the way, and those who are with these companies working on their games, prepare for collateral damage. They may not be involved in their business schemes, but they will taste the ire from the consumers as well because anger from the people takes no side but for themselves.

@leoanpereira

6 ай бұрын

@@knox7945 what changed? companies have always spitted on their customers. of course, capitalism is always getting worse and worse for us, but i wonder what made you realize there was something wrong.

@geofftottenperthcoys9944

6 ай бұрын

Been sailing the high see since the 90's!

@penguinjay

6 ай бұрын

They had me broken of piracy, after I was Sailing HARD on the xbox 360 for years, I was buying games for cheap on Steam, and there were only 2 paid streaming services, while hulu was free w ads. Life was good and entertainment quality was too, companies weren't universally scumbags, and it seemed like a fair deal to pay for their content. Now, they couldn't pay me to steal their content, and I don't have a problem not giving money to companies w poor consumer practices even if they put out something I would maybe like, I just pass it over. If there were a piece of content that I actually wanted to watch (1 in 1000), I would be far more inclined to stream it online or pirate it, than pay a subscription or use a free trial. Most companies in the digital age are awful and they are steering the potential customers back toward piracy like it's a race to the bottom. An honest business trying to remain is probably becoming slimier just trying to keep up w all the fuchheads out there.

I stopped pirating games when I got a job and Steam made buying and updating them easy. Now I'm highly considering restarting piracy thanks to Denuvo and "AAA" publishers. I stopped pirating movies when Netflix became an easy way to watch pretty much everything. Now the movies and shows are on 15 different platforms behind arbitrary geolocking so it's almost as if they're actively trying to get me to start pirating movies and shows again... Almost as if GabeN was right when he said "Piracy is a service issue, not price"

@rainbowsnek

Ай бұрын

honestly i would just stop considering and do it. most AAA slop is definitely NOT worth their price. Jesus christ, starfield is $120 in my country- and it brings literally nothing new, innovative, or interesting to the genre for that extra cost. It actually does LESS than some older $10-20 indie games do- and it even does them worse. that's the same story for most of these "big" games. it's so ridiculous that the prices just keep going up yet somehow the quality keeps going down

@christopherheathcote7039

Күн бұрын

I Agree 1000000000000000%

Now this was around 10 years ago, but I remember one of the original lead developers of Ableton saying in an interview that they really don't mind people pirating their software. He said that he understands that most musicians simply do not have the money to pay large amounts of money for software, he would rather people use it, learn to like it, make some money and pay for it once they start making money. He said "just remember me when you're famous!". I never understood why people used Reason. Music is about collaboration. Being forced to use sounds/plugins made by Reason is a scam, but more importantly completely limits the creative tools at your disposal. Maybe if you're just making some royalty free type music for your videos? idk even then it's like why not use any other DAW.

@MP-qn1jw

29 күн бұрын

I enjoyed Reason years ago because it was all I needed to make music. I did not have instruments, and they did. Now, if I decide to use it again, I will fish for it with a scrap of meat, and not with $$$.

If these companies don't respect our right of ownership, why should we respect theirs?

@caffeinesippingman

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like farmer talk to me. Keep them seeds alive.

@aiodensghost8645

5 ай бұрын

Exactly why I don't respect them

@vendetta.02

3 ай бұрын

​@@caffeinesippingmani keep em seeds alive and thriving! my my i always make sure they are fed quite well!

@TurboLoveTrain

2 ай бұрын

It's not that they don't respect your right of ownership: they don't respect YOU and never have. People are just now noticing what was always true.

the problem i have with "do your research" is that I don't know how much research is enough. How do I research the things that I don't even know that I need to research? The only way to even come close to that is to read through every single support page, FAQ, and announcement they've ever made and see what questions it raises, and even then it's not a guarantee that it's enough research, but you'd certainly hope it would be, but that's an absurdly unreasonable ask of the average customer

@l33tninja1

6 ай бұрын

At that point they should be paying you lol.

@kosmosXcannon

6 ай бұрын

Not to mention they way they word their shit is meant to make it harder to understand.

@rossmanngroup

6 ай бұрын

Call me stupid but I didn't realize I had to research that. 1) The product page made no indication of there being arbitrary limitations that would kick me to 720p when upselling me on 4k. 2) I figured 400 mbps downstream, RTX2080, threadripper 2950, NVMe SSD & 32 GB of RAM was enough, because.... 3) every other 4k high bitrate video I've ever played in my life on this machine, even 50-100 mbps+, didn't even make the fans turn on, much less slow it down... you make a good point with not knowing when you have to do research. i would never know to research that because i do not assume that every single person will try to fuck me on every single transaction. living life like a stressed out porcupine is no way to live life. who does that?

@Nerobyrne

6 ай бұрын

Also, unless they changed it very recently, this stuff just works in Germany. Funny how when the law requires it, suddenly all these garbage anti-consumer tactics stop being necessary. EDIT: Ah crap I just realized that I never actually bought the 4k upgrade, so that might not apply. But, this kind of change based on region has been very prominent in other types of licensing, for instance in Windows keys. Also, Steam has a special section that doesn't apply within the EU, so my original point still has some merit.

@AdamB5000

6 ай бұрын

We all know damn well that everyone who said, "You didn't do enough research," didn't do any research themselves. They just like armchair quarterbacking.

"I don't do research when I'm paying you for a service." --> Perfect summary.

@DJUwU

Ай бұрын

What if the thing you are trying to do requires a piece of software like Reason...and a perfectly working software no longer works because of an update? Also...if anyone is willing to find all the Reason's customers and do a class action law suit...its likely Reason would lose big time...but since not a lot of people are affected...its hard to get all the customers of Reason7 together in one courtroom...and thats what they are relying on. They are breaching a contract...but no one will sue because the court costs would be higher than the worth of the product...

@DJUwU

Ай бұрын

That is unless...somehow...a sizable portion of the Reason 7 users get together in court...and do a class action law suit...and pool their money and time together to go against Reason and their corporate lawyers...but yeah...sadly won't happen due to reasons I stated in the previous comment...

As I've been on the side of perpetual software that quit working I agree with you. However perpetual software is slowly becoming less of a thing due to "shareholder value" that is in favor of forever subscriptions, which I freaking hate.

The best part is, DRM doesn't hurt pirates. It _only_ hurts honest, paying customers, aka suckers. They're not trying to protect themselves from pirates, they're just trying to scare regular customers and keep them in line.

@Have_some_plasma

5 ай бұрын

Yes, because pirates have enough experience of dealing with DRM (usually deactivating/removing it) to just deal with it once, upload it onto the high seas and now everyone can use it freely meanwhile the actual... target demographic is stuck with this pos software that only slows your PC.

@handlethisD69style

5 ай бұрын

Funny enough, that same argument can go for gun rights, but people really think making laws to restrict your right to defend yourself/owning a gun, that'll suddenly stop the criminals from shooting you in a land where 550 million guns are laying around somewhere. it *only* hurts, honest, law abiding citizens that believe cops can show up at your house under 10 minutes, aka suckers.

@darrenmn

4 ай бұрын

Not really true, I used to pirate things years ago until DRM made ot a bit more annoying to work around so I stopped. Maybe I’m an outlier but if it was just there and free and easy to get, maybe I wouldn’t pay.

@PompaTG

4 ай бұрын

@@midgame6418 and conversely, I have pirated games only to buy them afterwards because I loved them.

@Linguae_Music

4 ай бұрын

@@midgame6418 I bought a guitar amp simulation from Aurora DSP... and after buying it i found out that it only works when connected to the internet... and at the time i only had 5gigs of mobile hotspot per month xD So i immediately went and got the pirated version like 10 minutes after i bought the real one lmao

As someone who lived on the high seas for years when I was young, it was a badge of honor when I was finally able to buy the stuff I used. Now a days I wonder if it's a badge of honor or a badge of shame...

@silentlyjudgingyou

6 ай бұрын

Agreed I was so happy when I could start paying for what I wanted now it's back to the high seas because that way is safer.

@furiousdestroyah9999

6 ай бұрын

You guys are making me not look forward to the days I can set foot outside my ship 😂

@Moe_Posting_Chad

6 ай бұрын

@@furiousdestroyah9999 Fuck that. Don't. Deny the system every bit of the money you can deny them. It hurts them in ways you can not comprehend. Yeah it really is as simple as washing your car yourself instead of going to the car wash. Deny every transaction possible.

@curious2882

6 ай бұрын

Yep this is it. When I got my life together and started buying videogames I was really proud of my game library. I even bought every game I had pirated in the past because I thought "I enjoyed this game so I should give the money even if I wont play it again" which was the morally correct thing to do. I was proud to have enough money to finally support what I loved. Now? Lmao. If your game doesn't have a demo I am going to find my own demo. If your game has anti-consumer anti-piracy I'm not playing it. I won'tgive my money to these scumbags unless I know exactly what I am buying because they abused my trust and my moral compass. There is no punishment for falsely advertising videogames. Exaggeration aka LYING is not illegal. I can't trust them with my money until after I've seen what they have to offer and it's their fault.

@leonro

6 ай бұрын

As a fellow notorious navigator of the high seas, I just pirate things that I would feel screwed over if I were to purchase. If I feel bad for using software for free, I will buy it.

For context, forrmer telephone service CSR here. Do you remember when 5G came along and 3G was mothballed? I do, because I worked with customers who had to upgrade from the older phones to newer ones. Most common complaint? "I bought a new phone like I was supposed to and now I can't use my phone because I can't get service." My employer's answer to this? We cannot guarantee service due to the transitioning nature of the network. Please stand by while we try to improve things. Paraphrased: "Sucks ta suck, pal! Keep payin' for the service ya can't use and maybe it'll get better someday!" It's why so many sellers of goods want to change to service providers; they get an ongoing revenue stream instead of ebbing and flowing sales coupled with the ability to change things as they want to improve their experience, not that of their customers.

@alexandercatterson223

Ай бұрын

That's funny because in my country we still have 3G. We have 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G we never got rid of the old networks. Basically it means that I can grab a phone from 09 and it'll still connect and work because quite frankly my country is just better. *On most things but in what I say next they made a massive blunder* Sure it has some downsides (all countries do) like letting in vastly too many foreigners literally overflowing the country and screwing up the housing market because "muh refugees need housing" but just nevermind the homeless or the poor that need bigger homes because they'll be a family of 5 living in a 2 bedroom house or flat.

@ghostsquadme

Ай бұрын

This is not an entirely accurate analogy. I could go into some technical details about how wireless technology works, bandwidth limitations, radio frequencies, etc. The point is, hardware != software. Hardware, once shipped, has all the capabilities (and limitations) it started with. When there's 2 different parties interacting with each other, e.g. a phone and a radio tower, they both need to share the same capabilities. Sometimes (many times), it's either very expensive or technically impossible to support multiple capabilities at once. It's also beneficial as a society to continue to march forward. Now, with all that said, could companies have special promotions to help subsidize the cost of upgrading a phone? Yes, the can, and many times do that very thing. Though, I also don't like the bait & switch tactics that companies use.

Glad to see you cover this. A decade ago, at the start of the chromecast/fire stick/apple TV wars, Intel and Microsoft worked together to force AFTER MARKET, post production changes into compatible motherhoard BIOS, which had the immediate effect of blocking any 4k+HDR content from running normally on your desktop computer, even if you had paid for a premium PowerDVD license. This was related to Intel Secure Guard Extensions, or SGX, and brought 'enclave' computing to DESKTOPS and destroyed the ability of the vast majority of people to play their UHD content, streamed or from disk, on their PCs. You know, to protect the big brands from us knowing what exactly they were doing in that secure compute space. Since then, TPMs and etc are all the rage on all modern motherboards, streaming video looks like shit INTENTIONALLY and was a long game played on us, and then at the same time any GPU that could do 4k was suddenly up-priced as a premium product even though the tech was over 10 years old in 2017. Cut to today-- companies are talking about ending physical media. The country of Australia is going to be the first western country where NO PHYSICAL MEDIA is sold. Consider this, as we suffer under a late stage economy that is trying to take more and more from us nearly every day. And this has had what effect on piracy?? Zero. In fact it helped certain piracy workflows, as SGX was broken a month after it was released, but those corporate tech companies don't care.

They don't say "If your system is compatible with what we demand from you, you could pay extra to get 4K" they say "pay this much to get 4K". If you pay that and *_don't_* get 4K, they lied to you. No ifs, buts or maybes.

@TheyCallMeIce

3 ай бұрын

Weeeeell, they PROBABLY did put some legal jargon on page 103 of their EULA. Are you going to check it before you watch a show? They know you won't. That's why I've said it once and I'll say it as many times as it takes; information on the ""purchase""/signup/subscription page being contradictory to the EULA info should be illegal. One's only there to deceive, and the other's only to excuse their nonsense. I honestly very much agree with Louise when he calls these types of mentalities "rapist mentalities", because that's the same exact line of thinking; that you're entitled to do whatever you want to a person, and they shouldn't be able to object.

@wolf1066

3 ай бұрын

@@TheyCallMeIce That'd be the EULA written in ALL CAPS with no paragraph indents and couched in overly wordy terms that's designed to be harder to read than a Tolstoy novel, right? "Rapist mentalities" is a good term. Seems like it applies equally to landlords and politicians.

@occamraiser

3 ай бұрын

and you deserve your money back. It is not blanket permission to steal from everyone including me!

@wolf1066

3 ай бұрын

@@occamraiser Where did I say "therefore steal from people"? Stop putting words in other people's mouths. Since when did I steal from you, for that matter? Sounds to me like you've got a bit of a bee in your bonnet. Is it because you routinely rip people off and are feeling a bit "targetted" by this thread?

@delphicdescant

2 ай бұрын

@@occamraiser Torrenting movies is not theft. The law recognizes this clearly. Nothing is being taken from anyone. There is no such thing as "a potential sale." Nobody owns or has any right to "a potential sale." Stop shilling for corpos. They don't consider you human. They look at you the same way you look at firewood.

This is why Open source software like Blender, Gimp and other tools are very important. They allow you to keep your rights and you can continue to use the software.

@davidaustin5622

6 ай бұрын

This is why the EU is moving on regulation (Cyber Resilience Act). First regard free software as a paid product. Next comes tax or mandatory expense forcing free software to become paid content. Brace for it.

@feral_orc

5 ай бұрын

@@davidaustin5622 that'd be pretty scary if you weren't just making up everything you said about it lol

@jugganutz

5 ай бұрын

Agree. But many open source project goals are to go commercial. Or you have other screwy scenarios where someone wants to use the open source community for free developers. Or you have other mega corps fork and steal open source like cloud providers do. But at the heart it is super important for sure.

@Debilinside

5 ай бұрын

@@davidaustin5622 You are pulling bs out of your backside.

@DJRYGAR1

5 ай бұрын

Years ago, in Poland, tax office was fining companies for using free software, and they explained that free software is tax avoidance scheme. Because if you bought Windows instead of installing Linux, you would pay VAT. So installing Linux is tax avoidance. True story.

I am a reason owner and did love it, but now I've changed my mind! - Louis, I am absolutely amazed that you continue to speak for so many people on so many important points on so many topics. We need more people like you.

Me as a child: I'll stop pirating when I earn. Guess I was ahead of the curve back then.

I wouldn't call it "disregard" for the customer, I'd call it "contempt." There's very much an attitude of "We know you have the money because you bought it once, but you haven't given us MORE (haven't tipped us!) to continue using the product you paid for in full, so we hate you more than the pirates who never gave us money in the first place." Rent seeking economy.

@jonibravo9004

6 ай бұрын

« Your last purchase from us was in 2011. As such we consider that you’re not worth respect. You peasant. »

@kacperkonieczny7333

6 ай бұрын

That explains some things. The American tipping culture for me is an anathema

@Fakeslimshady

6 ай бұрын

Even tips are a one time transaction. This is squeezing revenue.

@Silvreina

Күн бұрын

Yeah, that is why they want to make everything into a subscription. It's what they've been doing to the housing market, forcing millions to be renters so that they can be plundered of their hard-earned money for literal decades. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and the companies know what they're doing here.

I'm reminded of Valve's approach with Steam by making it easier than piracy. Gabe himself said that piracy is almost always a service problem, not a price problem.

@username7763

6 ай бұрын

Yet I've moved 100% over to GoG. No DRM is always more valuable than DRM software.

@ThatAnnoyingGuyOnTheInternet

6 ай бұрын

Speaking of Steam, any news about them ending Windows 7 support in 2024? Will they provide a way to access our library? Will they provide a way to play older games on newer operating systems? Is there some kind of open source solution/alternative?

@Vinsaiyan

6 ай бұрын

what happpen when gabe steps down. i have very little games on steam i don’t trust that drm infested platform

@FluffySylveonBoi

6 ай бұрын

It is a service problem. I don't like steam and never did, so yes there you go, I would rather go to GoG or pirate than use that shit.

@ordinaryhuman5645

6 ай бұрын

@@ThatAnnoyingGuyOnTheInternetAnyone who still insists on using Windows 7 instead of upgrading to a supported version or switching to Linux has had a very long time to make offline backups on their own hard drives for offline Windows 7 use. Linux often handles older games better than newer versions of Windows... and that is probably even better now that Steam has developed Proton. And when they decide to ditch Windows 7 and use a supported operating system, their Steam library will still be there for them to use. There's no open source solution that I'm aware of. The alternatives to just using Steam like a normal person with a supported OS are (1) acquiring the games from Steam before it's too late and storing them yourself, or (2) acquiring the games from some other source (e.g. sailing the seven seas). More generally, I want to point out that it's silly to expect a 3rd party company to continue to support an OS long abandoned by the company that produced it, especially when they're continually updating their own products in ways that cannot be backwards compatible with the long abandoned OS. I do website work, and at some point I decided it wasn't worthwhile to care about making sure that websites worked on the default Windows XP browser or Windows 7 browser that basically no one uses anymore. So I stopped supporting them. If someone insists on trying to make it work, that's on them.

This happened at my old job. A 2015 version of 5 axis cam software had its activation ability removed. It cost $13,000.

@MP-qn1jw

29 күн бұрын

Sue the bastards!! A few hundred is one thing, but $13k? You could put out 2 hits on the CEO for that money.

I realized I'd never use Reason seriously again when I tried opening a project while off-grid for a week on a photo workshop, and was asked to connect to prove my license was active. 15 years of goodwill immediately evaporated.

Cracking and pirating software is now more important than ever. It's not about "getting free shit", it's about putting the screws to the companies that steal from their customers.

@_P_M_

6 ай бұрын

Bullshit. Piracy has always been about getting free shit. And onerous copy protection is a pain in everyone's ass because if they don't use it people will just steel it. So the problem is not the evil companies trying to get an ROI but pirates who crack software and redistribute it for kicks. Let one of them go work their ass off at a real job for free and see how they feel about piracy.

@7graylands

6 ай бұрын

Years ago I bought a copy of Gigasampler for the studio. For whatever reason I could never install the copy I bought. It would install, but there was something wonkey with the registration of it. Their support system was a joke and we couldn't get it working. I couldn't return it because of course I'd already opened it. Even though I paid full price (around $600 at the time) I had to resort to downloading a cracked version. Now, before I buy a piece of software that requires online registration, I see if it's something I can download with a crack. If I can, then I'm more inclined to buy that software and download the crack as a backup. The cracked version gives me freedom the software company can't guarantee.

@Dave102693

6 ай бұрын

So much of those cracks are filled with all types of malware

@LocalAitch

6 ай бұрын

@@Dave102693 far fewer of them are than the anti-piracy crowd likes to say. I've been pirating most of my life and I have gotten exactly one virus back in the Windows 95/98 days (KakWorm).

@thewallsspeaktome3507

6 ай бұрын

@@Dave102693 I've been pirating for years and have barely ever run into malware. Just find proper trackers and always scan your downloads. This is downloading 101.

At my first software job, my boss said "make it too cheap to steal!" In other words, provide such good documentation and support that the CHEAPEST way to own it was to pay for it.

@marckyle5895

6 ай бұрын

Yep, looking thru BBSs and later USENET for a warez copy of a game which included the users manual with the passcodes printed on random pages (during the dialup era) and then printing out that manual VS just buying the thing for $9.99 or $14.99. No brainer. I still have 'Myst' somewhere in a box.

@Ghost101

6 ай бұрын

Smart boss.

@Roxor128

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like your boss was cut from the same cloth as Gabe Newell of Valve.

@raizan5946

6 ай бұрын

I want to understand this. But that didn't make sense to me, what does that actually mean?

@a9ball1

6 ай бұрын

This is true. I was a pirate decades ago and the main reason why us pirates would buy it is to get the manual! I myself purchased software that I had a pirated copy of to get the manual. But after I bought a legit copy I used the pirate version because it loaded faster, because it didn't have all the copyright protection in it. Many pirates I knew did the same thing in using the copy instead of the original.

The ORIGINAL Copyright Act of 1790 established for "encouragement of learning," securing authors the "sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending" the copies of their "maps, charts, and books" for a term of 14 years. So, Under the ORIGINAL copyright law, everything created from Before 2010 is in the Public Domain.

I swear, whenever I stumble upon your videos I am getting so enraged haha. It reminds me just of the typical online Stigma and current state of everything related Modern world. Then again I love your voice, your work and your extreme insight into your domain it's so goddamn conflicting. all the love and keep doing up your good work

Unbelievable. As an audio engineer myself, I can tell you firsthand that we're NOTORIOUS for only using ancient software. Walk into any recording studio, even the high end ones, and ask what software they use. You're never going to find anything made less than 10-20 years ago. ESPECIALLY anything that requires an internet connection, since studio computers absolutely never connect to the Internet (a virus on there is a problem that costs thousands of dollars and loses clients a ton of work).

@iKn-ft2bc

6 ай бұрын

FL Studio has Lifetime updates, atleast i hope so :) (U buy the pack and own it but u are able to buy newer plugins if u want so)

@AndreasA.S.

6 ай бұрын

most of the time we dont dare connecting to the net, becuse we are using a piece of hardware with interface software written for only that era and no newer, ill use my fantomS roland and AN/DX 200 boxes as examples, and a companion PC that has to run an ancient copy of windows just to alter params.

@ashleybirch93

6 ай бұрын

Find that odd. I have cubase 12 pro and I rarely do anything with sound. I'd imagine it's good value for music studio businesses. I believe hanz Zimmer uses it

@charlescarmichael1124

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I use to use Logic Pro for Easter and Christmas for my church (a mega church). Had everything ready to go that week and then apple forced an update to backup and transfer my phone. That update introduced kernel panics to my system, making it useless because it would crash during the production causing the music to stop. We had to switch to an old iMac. Never was able to use that laptop again. Had to buy a new one a couple years later.

@OfficialDJSoru

6 ай бұрын

If my dad ever went back to music production, he'd probably go back to Cakewalk Sonar X1. I also keep myself with FL Studio 20 cause that version, despite no longer having Windows XP support SOMEHOW can still work on that OS, so I can use my M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra (blue shell, the older version) with the last stable drivers on a Windows XP VM inside my current desktop just to record anything. Why not buy a newer card with drivers for my current Windows? Easy, cause a card like that one used to cost €200 back when it was new, nowadays it's closer to €300. Yeah, one of the reasons many of us in the music production stick to older software is also older hardware compatibility, hardware that to upgrade to modern standard equivalents will set back THOUSANDS.

I think the biggest grift of our time is the people that decided digital products should be treated any differently than physical products, especially when those digital products are duplicating physical products.

@DelightfullyMADD

6 ай бұрын

You shall own nothing and be happy you mindless sheep! Now get back in your pod and eat your bugs... vote for me~ 😉

@thealgerian3285

6 ай бұрын

It's actually that it should be treated both differently or no differently, depending on which one benefits the big companies that profit from either type of narrative. For instance, piracy is stealing, just like it would be for a physical product.

@realityshotgun

6 ай бұрын

Well now physical products are being treated the same as services, things will stop working if you don't subscribe. That's 1000x worse.

@endxofxeternity

6 ай бұрын

@@realityshotgunyeah HP is batshit crazy

@blackdandelion5549

5 ай бұрын

Oh, I still have CD's of products I have bought from video games to software and no one has ever come to take them away from me and I OWN them. It should be the same when I can simply download the product from online and if I PURCHASED IT then it is MINE. Companies should stay the frick out of my house because invading my computer or Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo/Etc. is no different than coming into my home and stealing from me. If not then be clear that I am Leasing or Renting this software from the company and I will have an informed decision on whether I pay for such a thing. Informed Consent*

I dont really have any experience with software like this, but the sentiment basically applies to all types of things today. Im not exactly sure when this more notable shift occurred, but sometime in the last 10-15 years a large shift started(note: these business practices have always existed at some level I know, but im speaking about a more widespread, and more blatant abuse of consumers which didnt always exist) where big business' just threw the idea of even somewhat ethical business practices, and venerable customer service out of the window, completely. Exec's today simply think that they are not only allowed to scam and abuse customers at will, but they act as if its standard operating procedure, and isnt even wrong to practice. They think they are ENTITLED to your money as a customer no matter what, and that since its THEIR product(regardless of if you PURCHASE it with your own money) they also reserve the right to do whatever they want, including essentially "stealing" or scamming you out of the product you have purchased and now "own". And the worst part is, and what keeps them acting in this way, is that they are largely ALLOWED to operate this way, both in the way that laws have been being passed that favor their practicing business in the way they are, and because they know even if they are "wrong" that no governmental agency is coming after them for practicing business in this way. And they know that at worst only a small percentage of customers will completely leave(for another product, or like you mention, swap to the "high seas" as a means of using their product), and taking legal action is basically not even an option even if it SHOULD be a viable and rightful option for the consumer. In my mind, theyve painted themselves into this corner where customers are better off on the high seas, and generally I think any, and everyone SHOULD choose that option for any company who wants to practice business like this...I mean, if you "purchasing" something doesnt make you "own" it, and deserve the support you paid for said product, then the high seas isnt "stealing" either. The only "stealing" going on, is the form of "stealing" that these companies perform onto paying(often loyal, long time) customers.

> company sells perpetual license (definition: continuing or enduring forever; everlasting) > company removes the license > license is not perpetual > user did not get what they paid for I can't comprehend how some people don't see that this is blatant theft. I really hope a lawsuit comes out of this because it's ridiculous what these companies get away with.

@JOnuC

28 күн бұрын

There's a new trend where creators now use their copyright to target social platforms instead of regular people. If social media permits engagements on a creators work then they have violated copyright, until then they have not. Let's see how these tech tycoons like it. 😂

@Jkaninteangemittnamn

5 күн бұрын

if they do it then the firm suddenly dont exist anymore and are sold to thier"friend" and they buy their friends company that uses same terms and they are rich forever and the users stillfcked

It amazes me to no end that companies have reversed course on this so fast. Things were getting better in 2010ish as far as less motivation to pirate. Now, they are almost forcing their would be customers to because they refuse to make a functional product with the advertized features for a reasonable price

@DUKEzors

6 ай бұрын

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, WEF.

@bottlethrower1544

6 ай бұрын

What happened to Disney that rendered them unable to great product also happened to Big Tech

@zombiecat7799

6 ай бұрын

Similar situation with PC games - even couple of years ago people in third world countries had lower prices, called "regional prices", that were more or less tied to зurchasing power parity. And that, in addition with user-friendly interface of Steam, helped to promote actually buying games, in a countries with widespread piracy. Nowadays, for example, game costs in Steam 70 USD for US, and 60 USD for Ukraine - I mean, realistically, even before the war, economical situation in such eastern-Europe country was not only 15% worse than in US. Next thing you know, corporations will start to lobby even more surveillance to track piracy, and harsher penalties for pirating digital products.

@laserak9887

6 ай бұрын

Streaming is a prime example. It used to be an upgrade to cable. Now it's worse.

@Moe_Posting_Chad

6 ай бұрын

Its very easy. In 2010 they moved too fast thinking everyone was incompetent and stupid. Now. They know this is the case. So now, they push again.

Obligatory reminder that pirating adobe software is a moral obligation Edit: Changed to moral obligation

@SotiCoto

6 ай бұрын

I just learned to use GIMP. I got so sick and tired of jumping through all the hoops to use paid paint software like Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop that I decided I'd just give GIMP a try. And while it isn't AS good, the differences seem to be shrinking all the time.

@MaticTheProto

6 ай бұрын

Bro with how much they charge it’s the only option 💀

@belgiumball2308

6 ай бұрын

@@MaticTheProto Yeah, exactly

@orangeboi4082

6 ай бұрын

Nah it’s a moral virtue to pirate adobe software

@knightsonofjack

6 ай бұрын

They wouldn't let me cancel without talking to customer service for 2 hours, they kept gaslighting me about stuff and would btw let me cancel

Wow! I really appreciate this video. All these things really need to be talked about. Thank you. I agree with all your points regarding this topic.

Lifetime licenses need a legal definition ASAP. The license itself shouldn't become invalid once a company goes under, only the services which the company cannot provide any longer should be missing for the product experience.

As a music producer who works on a 10+ year old desktop, I relate so much to this video... you are so right about the crazy number of music producers who work on old setups with very old versions of software

@MrElemonator

6 ай бұрын

Music producer who presses buttons? The real music producer is the conductor of the symphony.

@ToyKeeper

6 ай бұрын

I ended up buying an Akai Force so that I wouldn't have to deal with a computer at all for music purposes. It was a small price to pay to keep all those headaches away.

@jpennel25

6 ай бұрын

@@MrElemonatorNo one listens to that genre

@xxkichaxx636

6 ай бұрын

​@@jpennel25you'll be very very surprised 😂. Go check prices and booked out places for many many classical concerts. Even famous Hans Zimmer, which music you listen in very big movies is so called modern classical music. Anyway, go educate yourself, not everyone listens to pop, or maybe poop music

@AyoKeito

6 ай бұрын

Same on TV

Piracy is not piracy anymore but rescuing broken products, to that extent

@besticouldget

6 ай бұрын

Same with old games you can't buy anywhere anymore.

@Infinite_Falcon

6 ай бұрын

Piracy and preservation are pretty much 2 sides of the same coin at this day and age.

In the U.S. perpetual license breach in contracts are million dollar lawsuits. It's happened time and time again, so if the client is in the U.S.? I'd lawyer up. Their greed will cost them millions.

I like what Gabe Newell said about piracy. "Piracy is a service issue."

Setting piracy aside, this is just an actual beach of contract, and anybody who had their perpetual license stolen from them has grounds to sue.

@marckyle5895

6 ай бұрын

Take them on your It's A Small World After All ride thru your state's small claims court system. Except your IASWAA includes being reimbursed for the software you bought or the cost of replacing that software with something similarly functional in 2023 from another company minus what your paid for your 2005 perpetual license version. Be creative. Pad the claim up to the state SCC limit with things like time used to cope with their malfeasance and $$ lost from lost work. Small claims court findings for fault will ding them a little and you'll get more $$ doing than than a CA.

@choosetolivefree

6 ай бұрын

Hahahaha. You're funny. Nobody going to sue. Relax, you're a little too uptight

@MyTv-

6 ай бұрын

Who can afford that? Just treat it legally what it is really is! THEFT!

@LinwoodBlackmore

6 ай бұрын

@@MyTv-where I live it costs $100 to file in small claims court.

@StormsparkPegasus

6 ай бұрын

@@LinwoodBlackmore Realistically, the cost of a company like Sony to even appear at small claims court is larger than the judgement and they'd likely just pay it.

He wasn't being salty. Back in 1992 I bought small plotter from Canon for printing on C size (17x22) paper. It cost $1,000. I couldn't get it to print on 4 1/2" of the paper no matter what I tried. Contacted Canon for an updated driver and was told it was a mechanical issue and there was nothing that could be done. They claimed that they hadn't lied, that it would plot on that sheet size, but that they never said you could plot on the entire sheet. They wouldn't take it back, so ever since then anyone who's asked about printers, plotters, cameras, etc. I've warned to stay away from Canon. Maybe they've changed; maybe they haven't. I don't care. I don't support liars and thieves once they've shown their true colors.

@Vinni-2K

5 ай бұрын

also stay away from hp i own an epson ecotank now its been perfect for now

@drachefly

2 ай бұрын

He was justifiaby salty?

Did not expect a Nekron name-drop in a Louis Rossmann video. I'm here for it.

The attorney general of the United States needs to come after the company because this is high theft. Companies have been sued for less

Back in the day, I never understood why someone would dedicate so much time and effort into pirating software only to provide it for free to anyone who wanted to use it, I now know why. When companies are willing to behave so poorly to consumers that they are willing to dedicate huge amounts of time and effort just to give them the middle finger, how can they complain when people pirate it?

@re_negado

6 ай бұрын

All hail Ocean of Games and Get Into PC.

@niemand7811

6 ай бұрын

With today's gloabl networks it is easy to lose sight on all your programms running online. You may have even updated anything to version 3.0 when an idiot calls in and wants his outdated 2.0 version reactivated instead of it being updated. Yeah that is a thing to. People hate updates somuch they want to use their current programms foran eternity and then cry foul when the software can't be reactivated anymore. "Oh if I can't get my win OS 3.1 from 1990 to work properly anymore I guess it is justified to pirate this new Windows 11 instead."

@theunknowman12

6 ай бұрын

@@niemand7811 well when the updated version really sucks and very inconvenient to use (*cough* abode *cough*) its no suprise why some people would not update the software

@talesofgore9424

6 ай бұрын

Yeah literally no one is making that argument.@@niemand7811

@joooja

6 ай бұрын

​@@niemand7811update =/= better. Tech companies focus on acquiring customers first, then monetizing/milking their product. That involves making the user experience worse, either by forcing ads, in-app purchases or switching to a subscription model. It's just common sense to download the earlier versions that haven't been handicapped. You only need an update if it has online connectivity when you use it to avoid viruses.

I've worked in large studios. Keeping the studio computers offline is an extremely common practice. Primarily to stop artists work from being hacked, but also for consistency. It only takes one instance of having a group of musicians have to wait (on time they paid for) for a windows update to realize that offline is truly superior. Wanting offline authorization for DAWs is not a tiny use case in the industry.

@BaddBadger

5 ай бұрын

I'm just an amateur producer, but I am already finding this out. If anything it's nice to have my thoughts confirmed by someone more advanced so I know I'm not just being stupid.

@Abakato

2 ай бұрын

If a studio is charging you while you wait for a software or system update, ask for your money back and leave.

@James-eg3nf

2 ай бұрын

I own a studio and do production and audio engineering as well, and this is absolutely critical. I don’t personally keep my systems offline, but I very rarely update them because things tend to break. A friend who also runs a studio maintains completely offline systems as his hardware is at least 15 years old.

@aonodensetsu

Ай бұрын

​@@Abakatoyou work somewhere, your pc is getting a windows update, you're still *at work* and get paid

@USSRDragon

Ай бұрын

Just had a HMI try to update itself on a Robotic palletizer at where I work this week, because its now running Windows 10. Just what?! Why is the HMI running a full W10 install, its always been Corporate Embedded, because HMIs are almost never attached to the internet, just either machine locals, or plant intranet. Just absolutely insane…

The biggest factor that drive me to pay for FL Studio was their lifetime free updates. I have not paid for a DAW in 10 years.

@SlyHikari03

24 күн бұрын

Same. I swear by fl studio.

Auto-updates breaking my DAW and NLE, spending days patching everything back together and then another update drops the next week, is why I won’t connect my rigs to the internet anymore.

I'm a music producer who has seriously considered getting Reason when I had the money. I really liked the idea of their rack working in other DAWs. I would have bought the full version and everything. If you're hearing this Reason, your response to that one customer's lost you at least $500 in sales. Could have upgraded that person to Reason 8 for pennies, but now it's costing you more (but you probably already know that).

@radimvybiral105

6 ай бұрын

I will fix the last line for you and use their words here: "although I suspect you likely realise this". lol

@adaire451

6 ай бұрын

@@radimvybiral105 Haha fair. I should I relooked at that part of the video

@okachobired5856

6 ай бұрын

I pay a little over $20 a month for Reason plus and I'd recommend that to most people. That guy needed to upgrade to save himself the hassle. I've also been a Reason user for the past 20 years.

@mr_sn4k3s

6 ай бұрын

@@okachobired5856 nope he will rightly pirate the software he is owed, even if it was discovered he pirated it, he would not be liable to pay for the software again in a court of law

@raifthemad

6 ай бұрын

@@okachobired5856 You are the exact kind of sheep that makes companies act like this, because they know that they'll get away with it.

Being a Linux desktop user makes me a masochist? That explains a few things.

@rossmanngroup

6 ай бұрын

Masochist for 20 years now.

@harriet-x.x

6 ай бұрын

17 years i have been one then 😅😶

@4crafters597

6 ай бұрын

Customising Plasma only to rely on a buggy tool from years ago that is discontinued for a year now kinda does seem like masochism

@callisoncaffrey

6 ай бұрын

You're all children until you switch to OpenBSD. Then you will experience real pain.

@eyesofnova

6 ай бұрын

Manjaro Plasma. I love it and find my experience to be better than on Windows 10 and 11.

I live in Brazil... piracy here should be considered self defense!

It seriously baffles me to no end how a pirated product runs better than a paid,legit copy of a game/software etc etc etc.

A shitty thing is they didn't even pop up a message saying "Can not stream in 4K on this device". They just left you to happily keep going. Presumably there are people who won't notice and just keep paying for something they're not getting.

@KristopherBel

6 ай бұрын

This is a disgusting and unfortunately common tactic, years ago when AOL went free I was visiting my grandmother, and she had gotten a bill for AOL, so after I quizzed her a little bit to see if she had maybe bought something through them or whatever I find out that no, she is paying for the free service and had been for almost a year I called up AOL and very politely asked them what the hell they thought was appropriate about this? And they said if people wanted to choose to continue to pay for a free service they didn't want to interfere with their choices. Lesson learned, never trust these corps. They were found to be doing this to tons of people absolutely disgusting.

@Emily_M81

6 ай бұрын

I know I wouldn't notice at first. I would assume nEtWoRk PrObLeMs when it was grainy.

@ADDisAOK

6 ай бұрын

Violation of RSC 1985 c. C-34 in Canada to do that.

@ThePopo543

6 ай бұрын

I know I wouldn't. I'm blind as a bat and I'm used to watching everything in 480p throughout my life.

@chaos.corner

6 ай бұрын

@@ThePopo543A crisp 480p is often perfectly adequate.

I've worked as an engineer for over 15 years, using various AutoDesk products. AutoCAD being one of them. I started learning AutoCAD in high school back in 2001. Over 20 years I've been using this software. It is extremely expensive, it costs my employer many thousands of dollars per year to license. And in those over 20 years I've been using AutoCAD, I can count on one hand the number of new features that they have added that I actually care about. I could use an old version from 20 years ago, from the high seas, and have a very similar experience to the current versions we have today. They don't justify the many thousands of dollars their product costs, and keep putting out new versions and retiring old versions so they won't work anymore. Therefore piracy is completely justified.

@prezlamen7906

6 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention just how much better pirated autodesk product work than legit ones.

@isadora-6th

6 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention, that gpu capable of 2k 90fps Doom Ethernal (1050ti mobile) is somehow not enough to draw lines without lag between inputs before setting it as "basic" in settings (AutoCAD 2019 and later).

@emily1

6 ай бұрын

I’ve always found those companies funny. Adobe and all else, especially the 3d modelling market like maya and sketchup costing loads for a license. I’ve found maya easier than crap like Blender though so, still wouldn’t pay whack for it when I make nothing back from what I do.

@Cypher321

6 ай бұрын

SolidWorks and Dassault is more or less the same thing. I was using SolidWorks 2011 recently and realized pretty quickly that the companies I've worked for have been paying thousands upon thousands for patches and MAYBE a single expansion pack for at least the past 15 years when it comes to SolidWorks.

@TheExileFox

6 ай бұрын

AutoCAD 2023 still ships the fbx exporter that is practically useless. Why it's not getting swapped out for the good one, I have no idea, but it means that we have to use worse formats for converting old files into a format that can be processed by Blender.

i can practically hear the banging of nintendo bashing its head in their desks over not being able to have this video removed

19:06 -- Da Vinci Resolve is one of the few products I have no regrets purchasing, alongside FL Studio ... I saw an interview with Grant Petty that convinced me to go all in on a Black Magic Cinema Camera. He feels like the Australian Gabe Newell, but for the AV club. He just wanted to kids to feel the same joy that he first felt when he walked into a television studio and was allowed to touch their editing and colour correction console. As long as he's at the helm, I can see them going from strength to strength.

I've been proud for years of the fact that none of the content I consume was pirated... That ended with e-books, when I realized I had to purchase books multiple times to read them on both pc and e-reader. That ended with old tv series, when some of my favourite classic shows were completely unavailable to purchase. That ended with games, when Ubisoft and EA both forbade me installing and playing the games I paid for. At this point, I'm beginning to question why anyone is willing to give these companies money anymore. I used to feel ashamed that I couldn't afford to pay for content when I was younger. Now, I'm hesitant to purchase anything for the fear that some faceless corporation is going to change the terms and take away the content I paid for. The "you will own nothing and be happy" culture needed to die 10 years ago. Looking back at the old classic piracy commercial, "You wouldn't steal a car" ...Yes, I absolutely would pirate the software in a car at this point.

@NaoyaYami

6 ай бұрын

I feel like you've read my past as well. I guess there are many like us. Nowadays I've bought plenty of those old games I used to pirate when I was a poor kid. Sure, many of them are listed as unplayed or with just few minutes of playtime, but that's okay. I feel satisfaction about finally being able to pay back (even a bit) for stuff that I enjoyed in the past, while at the same time voting with my wallet for good old games (in contrast to modern shovelware marketed as AAA games)

@nerdicusdorkum2923

6 ай бұрын

Not only would I be more then fine copy and pasting a brand new car, but I would even go so far out of my way as to willing to PAY A PIRATE to proceed to gut out all of that damned DRM spyware crap. Only input my car should ever be receiving is me physically touching stuff, and radio stations. On the other end, no one outside my vehicle should receive any data output. Same for all the anime pirate sites I actually use. If I could legally pay them, I would gladly give them $20 a month for no exclusivity contract bullshit, an actual halfway decent job at translation, unlike some of the crap 'localizers' have been pulling, and when possible, no censorship.

@ABaumstumpf

6 ай бұрын

I got an e-reader - and hardly ever use it. i got a decent collection of books and thought it would be more convenient to have them digitally - always available on a single small device. Turns out that the digital copies of the books cost just the same as the actual physical book, yet i would be limited on the device i could read it on. And as if that wasn't bad enough for some of the series they only had a few of the books and several entries missing, for others they just removed the older books from the digital store. Like WTF is wrong with you guys? Digital books are like the absolute best goldmine they could have: Charge as much money as for physical books but they don't need to print anything, no need for storage-space, they don't have to pay staff to sell the book, they don't need to even bother with a store. And yet they make it such a worthless experience that i rather go to the next book-store and order the book cause there i know i will have it in a few days and then that book is mine for as long as i want, i can lend it to others or, if nothing else, use it to light a fire.

@Wrublos212

6 ай бұрын

​@ABaumstumpf All the big companies love to talk about their ecological approach like "we are saving planet, not cutting the trees" etc. Then they make customer to actually choose physical book which need to be manufactured, stored, delivered and generating carbon footprint.

@mcul3474

6 ай бұрын

​@@ABaumstumpfDRM your ebook. Problem solved.

General rule of thumb, if you wouldn't say it to your customer in person, don't do it to them in a snobby email. I reckon I'd get hurt if I treated a customer like that after they gave me $500.

@audiofreq

6 ай бұрын

Agreed!

when i paid for cable i got no service a big bill and shit treatment. when i paid the kid across the street i got great service, and he didn't have a truck or a ladder and charged 10$

First video I've seen of yours, very strong agreement ensured a subscribe, but the necron reference meant I had to unsubscribe so I could resubscribe with emphasis

Gabe Newell - CEO of Valve Software once said "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

@hachi1337

6 ай бұрын

And oh boy, was he right. Once I started working I basically stopped pirating games that are on steam. Steam is just so simple, and it works. Their DRM protection is child's play to hack (unless game is using 3rd party DRM) so I'm not afraid of loosing access to my installed games. Their launcher is quite good, and supports neat features like lan play and workshop. Offline mode is basically infinite today. So yeah, I agree. Piracy is def a service problem.

@sid6645

6 ай бұрын

​@@hachi1337oh and they also give a cloud back up, and offer great servers for co op games. Real good shit man.

@pawepiat6170

6 ай бұрын

yes, but steam also can revoke your licence for games. They are actively ensuring you can still play old games, developing proton and stuff, but its a choice they could change at any moment.

@forbidden-cyrillic-handle

6 ай бұрын

Every time I want to buy a game from them they ask fir my phone number. Sorry Steam. I'm married. You will not get my phone number. GoG doesn't require it. My logal games store do not require my phone number. Why Steam feel they are different? No money for them.

@therasco400

6 ай бұрын

I would say that the service issue has developed from a monopoly issue. Every game, Show, Movie is its own monopoly if being show though one service. The problems develop as service providers stop competing for providing the best service instead they compete for restrictive content so you have to pay to view it.

Thanks to your platform, I went from someone who never heard of Reason software yesterday to someone who will never purchase Reason software today. It doesn't really matter if I ever would have been in their market - due to their malfeasance, I will actively discourage anyone from considering them in the future.

@OfficialDJSoru

6 ай бұрын

Truth be told, point them in the direction of any other DAW. It can be Cubase, Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Reaper, LMMS, any of those. They have far more sensible workflows than Reason

@AiMR

6 ай бұрын

@@OfficialDJSoru I abandoned Reason a long time ago when I put on my big boy pants and got Cubase. Now I use Reaper and it is worth every cent.

@stephaniefairey8633

6 ай бұрын

I do this with Volkswagen. People - don't buy one. They're lying manipulative schemers that prefer to prioritise money over human health.

@MaddieM4

6 ай бұрын

I'm a lifelong Renoise girl. When Louis talks about people with a stable setup that lets them be in the zone, me and Renoise qualify. It's an excellent modern tracker with an extremely generous demo version. You can make amazing things with it. It's not everyone's cup of tea - I like to say, tongue in cheek, that it's music software by and for people with autism. But I think it deserves a hat in the ring if you're shopping around.

@mattshelton7423

6 ай бұрын

Yup! I’ve heard Reason recommended once or twice, didn’t say anything because I didn’t know anything about them. Now I’ll be sure to step in and actively discourage them if it ever comes back up.

This is why I use Reaper, not just because of features or other things, simply because of the philosophy of the devs who made it, it has no DRM.

This argument reminds me of early UK DVD's If you bought a legitimate retail DVD, you were forced to watch a 3 minute long un-skipable video telling you how bad you were for pirating DVDs If you downloaded a pirate copy of the DVD and burnt it to a disc, then you didn't get the un-skipable anti-piracy advert. The legitimate version was WORSE than the pirate version

Few companies realize their anti-piracy measures is the biggest reasons to not buy their products and rather pirate them. If they didn't have anti-piracy, they could easily sell them to anyone who has the cash to be honest.

@jamesphillips2285

6 ай бұрын

Pirating was only morally imperative in this case because they were already a paying customer. IMO, it is more grey if you just don't like the anti-piracy measures of something you have not purchased yet. But pirating you still give them mind-share. For software: you still give them a user-base. This may make people and businesses just *assume* you have access or experience with said software. On the other hand: it is bullshit that you need to pay money and jump though hoops to experience culturally-significant works. Copyright terms outlast the mediums that the works are fixed on these days. Piracy is actually required for preservation purposes.

@niemand7811

6 ай бұрын

What? Is that even considered logic? If they had less anti piracy measures people would pirate less? Nope. You are clearly in the idiocy if you believe that nonsense. That's as if you said that if cars had less security measures people would steal less cars. No. They would steal even more because lack of security measures means nobody cares. Right? Fucking hilarious how your melting brains can still formulate working sentences.

@AndreasA.S.

6 ай бұрын

post hurricane katrina, i wanted to play halflife 2 while in evac. , i thought, hey, ill go legit. not only was the legit version unplayable with out it getting registered, but i couldnt play it until it was updated via the net for some reason. on dialup. out came the pirated and very playable copy.

@watcher206

6 ай бұрын

This reminds me a lot of the spore controversy and that happened 16 years ago. At this point I don't think those companies are ever going to learn. Edit: For those that aren't familiar, spore released around 2007 under EA. Due to EA's draconian DRM measures implemented in the game it ended up being the most pirated game in history, because it was easier to just do that than to deal with EA's bs trying to play the game the legal way.

@pauldwalker

6 ай бұрын

it’s not pirating if you’ve already paid for the perpetual license.

Had this exact experience when working for a school district and Adobe turned off activation servers for older products. The school paid for licenses, but it couldnt activate anymore because they were pushing cloud. So yup, I reached out to Adobe and got basically this same response. I wrote them back and ended the email with "And you wonder why people pirate your software"

@jamesphillips2285

6 ай бұрын

I would suggest teaching students how to use Free Open Source Software instead. Used to be that companies loved it if schools used their software. When I was in post-secondary I had access to free "student" versions of software if I was interested. I opted not to use it: Because I was not entirely sure I did not want to start a business based on one of my projects (was for "educational use only").

@docjoesweeney

6 ай бұрын

This is EXACTLY why I ported all of my Adobe files over to Affinity and Open Source tools. There ARE alternatives, if you are prepared to look for them.

@theunknowman12

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesphillips2285 or just teach the student on how to pirate. No joke my high school teacher straight up just tell us to download the "free" version or copy it from his flashdisk

@overseastom

6 ай бұрын

​@@jamesphillips2285maybe teach them how to pirate stuff too :P It's helpful to know what links are likely to be malware, and what are the real deal, and how to apply crackz. Hell, even opening the nfo for the instructions is often confusing for people, since by default Windows DOESN'T use notepad for it, but the system info app iirc.

@ALmaN11223344

6 ай бұрын

@@jamesphillips2285 You shouldn't need to watch bootleg Finding Nemo when Pixar decides to break into everyone's homes (metaphorically) and take back the version of Finding Nemo they paid for. FOSS is great, but it doesn't replace high end software that is used almost universally in creative industries.

i resonated with your comment about being 12, i grew up cracking things because i was poor and a kid, there existed a really short time where i grew up, had money, started buying things, but in recent years its gotten so bad i've gone back to it - now as an adult i have a policy that i buy things but then strip out everything that makes them bad, denuvo bricking one of my hard drives was the last straw for me. it's acutally fucking farcical that i can consistently replicate this across dozens of games, play the legit copy with denuvo in it, 60-80 fps, remove denuvo, 120+ fps with the same settings. WHY. WHY ARE YOU MAKING THE GAME THAT I PAY FOR WORSE THAN THE VERSION I DONT - I WANT TO BE ETHICAL AND SUPPORT YOUR DEVELOPMENT BUT YOU MAKE IT **IMPOSSIBLE** IN MANY CASES. nintendo nuking roms for my favorite childhood games off the internet while refusing to sell them is another example. it makes about as much cents as it does sense. just... why

This "Piracy" series you've been doing is great! Keep it up!

I love the idea of company owners giving an honest and manipulative response having no clue Louis is on the other end getting ready to make it public to 2 Million people.

@Baddaby

6 ай бұрын

That's just some employee managing emails, not the company owner lmao

@EskWIRED

6 ай бұрын

I sent them a message on their company website comment form.

@0mikr0n

6 ай бұрын

​@@BaddabyWho cares, you pedant.

@williamsplays8528

6 ай бұрын

​​@@Baddabythe company made the decision to hire this person. Anything a company does is a reflection of its owner. If you took business classes you'd know that. What's the three C's of business? Customers CUSTOMERS CUSTOMERS!!!!!!! Seems businesses forgot that. When I worked in fast food eons ago that was drilled into my head every day. And I'm proud to say it was.

@Baddaby

6 ай бұрын

@@williamsplays8528 yeah very nice in fantasy land, but in big tech the CEO interacts with 1% of their employees, if even that Again, I know that sucks and I believe it's wrong

I remember worrying that video game companies could one day come to my home and take my game, because I would read the paper EULAs as a child and realized immediately that I wasn’t purchasing the game, but rather a license to play the game which could be revoked. This shit is so stupid for sure.

@troybaxter

5 ай бұрын

You mean like a certain company did with a streamer 8 months ago with a certain nefarious detective group.

@koolin3613

4 ай бұрын

​@@troybaxterWhat streamer are you talking about?

@troybaxter

4 ай бұрын

@@koolin3613 I don't remember the exact streamer, but I am talking about the incident where Hasbro sicked the Pinkertons on the guy's house just so they can get some cards back that they accidentally sent to him.

@koolin3613

4 ай бұрын

@@troybaxter Oh wow that sounds bad, i hope the person is okay

I recently filed an insurance claim for a broken phone with AT&T. I had done the process a year and a half before with the same model phone so I (thought I) knew what to expect. When i filed my claim they wanted a $275 even though it was $200 the last time. I went round and round with them trying to get someone to answer how this could have changed arbitrarily without me signing a new contract at any point. They basically told me tough titty. But i am stubborn and it wasn't about the money, so 3 hours and 6 people later they finally gave me a $75 credit to offset the cost. Had been told 100 times there was nothing to be done before suddenly it could be done. I also wasn't even talking to AT&T half the time. Instead I was speaking with Assurion, who claim to have no points of contact with AT&T even though I pay the monthly insurance AND the deductible to AT&T so go figure. As soon as I pay off my device I'm switching providors, can't stand being treated like that.

Always on the side of reason and truth. Wish more people were like Louis

Am I missing something? Why aren't these software companies (who cancel perpetual licenses) taken to court by a class action lawsuit? This is a clear breach of contract/agreement Company agreed for a unlimited usage period

@_DATA_EXPUNGED_

6 ай бұрын

Because the 'murican legal system is only accessible to those with lots of capital, who also don't care about what they pay for their software. This is not the case in the EU (at least far less), but those corporations typically aren't incorporated there, so they're free to ignore it.

@MiD218

6 ай бұрын

@@_DATA_EXPUNGED_ It just so happens that Reason is Swedish:)

@outhouse.wholesaler

6 ай бұрын

Probably put some specific loophole wording in the licensing agreement

@MyName-tb9oz

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, @@_DATA_EXPUNGED_, but there a pretty significant difference between a company incorporated in the EU and some fly-by-night junk peddler from China. And when a company has screwed over thousands of users for hundreds or thousands per user it gets a lot easier to convince a lawyer to start a class action.

@ramshaka

6 ай бұрын

The software would still work in perpetuity. It's the DRM that is being dropped, so it's kind of a legal grey area. The honest thing for the company to do would be to drop any DRM requisite for installation, but in order to do that, they'd essentially be making it free-ware. And the reason they don't want to do that, is because the old software is really just as good as their new stuff, at least for 99% of anyone who wants to use it. You might be able to win in a legal battle. But, it'd take a lot of people, time, and money to get there. So what the company has done is simply wait until such a time that the chances of someone putting together those resources is slim to nil, before pulling the rug out from under the software... So... Unless you've got a massive amount of money, plenty of free time, and are hung up on the principle... Well there's really only one sane course of action.

My employer purchased CAD software about ten years ago. Fast forward to about three months ago and the engineer that was using said software had his Windows installation brake. No problem I think, just reload the OS, and that worked until I got to the CAD program in question. They require you to call them to reactivate the software, and when I did, they told me the version that we paid the perpetual license for was no longer supported and that they were not going to reactivate the software. So not to only did this company steal our money, but they stole that engineer’s time by forcing him to convert his models over to a slightly less sh*t CAD program.

@coleeto2

6 ай бұрын

That sounds like breach of contract, no? Did anyone let legal council know about this?

@therealcouchpotato9560

6 ай бұрын

@@coleeto2 if it is a breach of contract, it would be more expensive to take them to court than just convert the CAD models.

@criszn504

6 ай бұрын

@@therealcouchpotato9560 " it would be more expensive to take them to court than just convert the CAD models." And that right there is why these companies outright steal from costumers because there is no tangible consumer protection policy that can make them accountable for their shit-antics, and they know that the consumer would find easier or lest costly solutions than going alone through the path of making them accountable.

@treelineresearch3387

6 ай бұрын

I have a license for Solidworks Maker. It's a completely fair deal for $99/yr and overall I just like how the SW workflow goes and it has pretty much every feature I ever need. Despite this I've been tempted to Jack Sparrow a copy that's been cracked to actually use, because their web license/launcher thing is SUCH DOG SH IT. I have to reinstall the whole app, all 20 whatever gigs of it, about twice a year because the stupid DRM launcher forgets how to connect to my browser, or a forced update just requires a full delete and reinstall. It's not that it uses an online license check that really grinds my gears, it's that it's done in such an ass-backward, irritating, and user-hostile way.

@BurnerJones

6 ай бұрын

You're talking about rhino, aren't you?

You're totally right! I've always found that buying a good tool that will last, even though they might be expensive, is cheaper in the long run. Buy once cry once. I refuse to buy into this notion of "software as a service." The cloud is a scam. Distributed storage and processing is where it's at. Storage and processing power are getting cheaper and better.

That guy isnt salty. He's full of righteous fury

Any company that sells perpetual licenses and tries to withdraw, block, or otherwise interfere with them later should be charged with fraud.

@MarkArnoldMusic

6 ай бұрын

You'll probably find no licence is perpetual, by virtue of it being a licence. However being misleading, or not transparent around online DRM that can brick a game if no longer supported online is pretty crap (especially if it's not an online game).

@Hamachingo

6 ай бұрын

I like when small software developers are like “I can’t maintain this anymore, so heres the ultimate license key and the source code. Thanks for supporting me all these years and keep this thing alive if you can.”

@snooks5607

6 ай бұрын

they should not be allowed to call it "purchasing", it's renting

What I don't understand is why no company (I'm assuming) has been sued successfully for this, or why it is not unlawful for them to do this

@fusrosandvich3738

6 ай бұрын

Sueing costs money, and most people dont have tens of thousands to throw around or more to try and force a company to follow the law.

@purplespark8

6 ай бұрын

@@fusrosandvich3738 Yes I agree, but since such things may also impact some businesses, you'd think a few would have tried to go the legal route

@BeastOfSoda

6 ай бұрын

Bro should start a class action and see where it goes from there.

@penguinjay

6 ай бұрын

because only the lawyers get rich. You can get a class action going and get like 9 bucks out of it, or you can make better purchasing decisions and reconsider how you obtain your software. No company gets sued because the justice system is corrupt, and pirates provide a much more simple, eloquent, dignified solution compared to going and whining and crying for years in court about toothpaste that can't go back in the tube. Just learn and do better, don't sue, make better decisions with the money you acquire, you are spending a piece of your life on a tool, and they are stealing that piece of your life from you later so they can hopefully get you to pay them a new piece of your life every year instead. They are stealing so they can extract more of your life from you for the same thing you already paid them for. Artificial point of pain, meant to drive sales. Hit em where it hurts, the wallet. It's the only language that scumbags understand other than violence. You don't even have to wonder why companies don't get sued for this, I just explained it. I mean, how much did purdue pharma pay for the opioid epidemic? 1/1,000,000th of what they made lying to doctors and keeling people? No, less! Did anyone go to jail? No. Wake up and smell the coffee.

@Cross_Malaki

6 ай бұрын

​@@fusrosandvich3738 And that is why I'm of the mind that criminal charges should be filed first.

I've been a Reason user for a long time. I currently pay for a Reason subscription, mainly because it has extra tools and instruments that I really like. I also own a perpetual license of the most recent version in 2024 in case I want to stop paying the subscription. I shouldn't have to fear that at some point I may not be able to quit my subscription and still have a perpetual license to fall back on, but seems like that is a very real possibility for the future. I may have to start thinking about what DAW I'm going to choose when Reason stabs me in the back.

The another problem that worth to mention is @6:13 when he ask to delete his account data. In Europe as per the GDPR he have right to ask that and the company could have serious penalty if doesn't comply. Also, these days the software always need some online account and we don't really know how they handle our data or how poorly developed the security measures to store them, and it'll be also bigger problem for you than them if it compromised by hackers, etc.

I have completely and utterly lost faith in of these sorts of companies a while ago. I honestly never buy movies or series, never get a streaming service, will never purchase any software ever again. The only purchasing of software I will EVER do is donating to open source projects. Because that is ACTUALLY paying for a product fairly

@Jacob-yb6bv

6 ай бұрын

Same. I’ve made exactly the same decision and do most projects with freeware software now. I have no subscriptions to anything. Have to say that I predicted all this years ago. Can’t believe people put up with it. If everyone stopped using a service or software when this happened the companies would soon have to change.

@jeremiahsbeast5560

6 ай бұрын

It’s difficult for the Sony situation because they are the people who’s names are smack dab on the Blu-Ray releases, say you wanted to legally buy and keep the movies you would be streaming. Most competition in the dvd field got stomped out pretty fast too.

@supernenechi

6 ай бұрын

@@Jacob-yb6bv It's infuriating people put up with it. Everyone is so dumb, sometimes that NPC meme is so right.

@MAGAMAN

6 ай бұрын

@@supernenechi Most people will only believe what they want to believe. That is why places like CNN and MSNBC still exist (Although their audiences are getting extremely small).

@supernenechi

6 ай бұрын

@@MAGAMAN Your minor skill issue is not what I mean, get the fuck away with your politics. I'm not American and I don't fucking care about your bullshit. Fuck off, we're talking about something different

My mom has been as a content director in various media companies for over 2 decades now, and throughout all of that, she still uses a copy of Photoshop 3.0 that she purchased back in the 90s. Being a program from the 90s, it has no DRM, she's been able to freely install it on every machine she's ever used since 2000, and there's no way adobe can ever take it from her. She's noted myriad times that she's NEVER going to upgrade- why should she?

@keomg4718

6 ай бұрын

except adobe can, she tecnically can't use any of the fonts included, or the pantone colors, etc. Is just piracy in the end of the day, and justified

@jeroid123

6 ай бұрын

@@keomg4718 wrong the version of these tools that were bought at the time are owned by the buyer in perpetuity, after buying became licensing you would be correct but if the product was bought before these products were licensed then it is by every legal definition and perspective not piracy, I still 100% agree with piracy but just cause I agree with it doesn't mean every good thing needs to be called piracy, we should be prioritizing ownership over piracy or licensing but piracy is definitely the better option than licensing

@ChaosSwissroIl

6 ай бұрын

@@keomg4718 Pantone is a scam. It's literally just RGB with DRM.

@MAGAMAN

6 ай бұрын

What is funny is that if you compare the old version and the latest version, there have very little meaningful changes to it.

@ChaosSwissroIl

6 ай бұрын

@@keomg4718 Apologies, I forgot this was CensorTube where every single post that mentions the four letter word starting with S for a duplicitous unfair exchange is hidden from view. Almost like governments commit that act and CensorTube doesn't want attention brought to it when they do... Pantone is a [_cam]. It's literally just RGB with DRM.

The only way to own stuff is not to buy it but to pirate it... What a interesting times to live in. Your terms are acceptable.

I usually buy stuff when paying is the easy way. Under no circumstance should the pirates offer better customer service than a paid company.

Everytime FL studio updates and honors my persistant license, I shed a tear of joy. Thankfully, not all of the decent software teams are dead.

@ratlinggull2223

6 ай бұрын

Their stance on piracy is still kind of iffy though. Even though I bought FL, they detected some remnants of an old pirated installation, and decided to suspend me until I reached out to clarify. If they didn't give it back to me, then try imagine losing an account right after buying.

@uaQt

6 ай бұрын

@@ratlinggull2223 "You finally decided to acquire our software legally???? well now you can only usit illigally!" am i missing something

@ratlinggull2223

6 ай бұрын

@@uaQt yeah, half of it pretty much. they giving me a 'last chance' when they should've not had the anti-piracy measures enabled knowing I have spent money on a real licence.

Netflix throttling video based on your hardware is like McDonald's giving you fewer or more fries depending on what type of vehicle you arrive in at their drive-thru. It's completely arbitrary and has nothing to do with your ability to access their service/product.

@docjoesweeney

6 ай бұрын

I dropped Netflix a while back too. Just can't be assed watching the same plots over and over again. Tubi at least has some *terrible* plot lines. :-P and its free.

Fully agree to pay for things that actually work as stated. Also, completely and fully agree to take to the high seas when they do not. Love the work, love the knowledge. Thanks for sharing and keep up your wonderful efforts in educating the populace.

I can fairly say that I have used a broken/hacked version of software even when I had a legal purchase because the copy protection was broken or excessively inconvenient. Granted back then, no Internet meant no patches and hacking your own software was sometimes the only way to get it to work properly 😂

Back then, subscription services and digital licenses were the answer against piracy as it would allow people to have access, updates and stuff easier than calling some reseller or going to a retailer. Piracy could have been about getting stuff for free and I understand that. But now, pirated content is more reliable than the actual stuff and this is FAR from getting for free.

@Dragoonsoul7878

6 ай бұрын

It never was about getting it for free, it took more time and effort to pirate then just buying it. Region locked games was a big part of this, many games are released in country X and never come to country Y. The only option was to pirate as buy the console and other things wouldn't be compatible with your devices paying 1,000s to get something that costs less then 100.

@ScottFioreAP

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@Dragoonsoul7878took a lot more time and effort so not a convenience thing, music and movies were the most downloaded so wasn’t about location based games, I feel like we could process of elimination this thing down to it being about not having to pay any money…

@ABaumstumpf

6 ай бұрын

​@@ScottFioreAP "music and movies were the most downloaded so wasn’t about location based games" And that changes nothing cause movies often were altered or censored in other countries and as many studies had shown: People would then later still go and pay for the original but due to pirating earlier the knew if it was worth it and ended up recommending it to others.

@jc_art_

6 ай бұрын

Something else thats dumb about it all is that internet based content has theoretically infinite supply, unlike books or dvds in a library, yet that infinite supply is limited by those who sell it. They dont gain anything by giving you unlimited access to something for free, nor do they lose anything. They always will have more supply to replace the stuff they gave to you. The only reason they dont give us everything for free is that they want money, but no one is going to spend money on something that there is infinite of, as high supply means low demand, so the sellers just artificially put a limit on the amount of digital products they can sell, or make it only available in specific places or at specific times, for the sole purpose of making that product cost more. I know all of this is obvious, but i just feel like pointing out how dumb all of it is anyway. If it werent for capitalistic greed, the seller would only make the product cost money until they make back how much it cost to make the product in the first place, making everything be cheap until its made the cost back, then its free, but nooo we need to make as much money off of it as possible, so lets tie the cost to meaningless stuff like brand name or product name, so people pay big prices for super cheap to produce items! Its all so fucking dumb

@ABaumstumpf

6 ай бұрын

@@jc_art_ "pointing out how dumb all of it is anyway. If it werent for capitalistic greed" No - there simply would be nearly nothing.

What rights holders need to consider is that they can compete with piracy. In the early days of Netflix, movie and TV show piracy dropped significantly. It layer rebounded as Netflix started declining in quality and content started getting chopped up and spread across many platforms. Piracy has a limited level of convenience; For movies and TV shows, it requires downloading the entire file before you can start watching. And download speeds are also unpredictable. There's also a delay from when something gets released to when it is leaked for pirates. For software piracy, getting updates can be tricky at times. With games, you have to make sure you install the correct updates in the correct order, and sometimes large updates make you have to reinstall the game. Also, even though the risk of getting busted is extremely low, it still exists, and having this threat is enough to convince some pirates to take extra steps such as setting up a VPN while other people just get scared off entirely. If a legal option exists and provides a high enough quality experience, then people won't pirate. We saw that with the early days of Netflix. If rights holders can provide a high-quality experience, then people will pay.

@yewtewbstew547

6 ай бұрын

With games the service aspect is actually a big part of the reason I pirate them to begin with. It is true that buying a game usually presents a better service experience, but that's often only true when the game is a) broken and in need of updates and/or b) designed to not be playable offline. To me neither of those things are desirable to begin with, so I won't pay for that even when the service is superior (which as you say, it almost always is). Instead I'll just wait 6-12 months until it's available cracked with all of the updates pre-applied, then pirate it. Ironically the games that are easiest to pirate are the ones I'm least inclined to pirate. The "service" I value when it comes to gaming is a game that releases with no major problems on day one and is playable offline. In other words, no/minimal service. Obviously with multiplayer centric games that doesn't entirely apply, they need online functionality for that component, but otherwise I have a pretty "anti service" attitude towards games lol.

@archaex

6 ай бұрын

People will pay for quality, then one day someone decides that the company should extract more value, and it becomes enshittified. Or the company gets acquired and the new parent company wants to extract more value, and it becomes enshittified. Or it gets acquired, and they straight out kill the product because it competes with the acquirer's other products, which are already enshittified.

@zigmar2

6 ай бұрын

If you use torrents, some clients have an option to download in sequential order, so if the download speed is higher than the bitrate of the video, you can start watching it in just a minute or two.

@penguinjay

6 ай бұрын

Preach! Netflix and Amazon were the only two paid streamers, hulu was free with ads, and Steam was selling games very cheap on their sales within a year of release, mostly complete games too! Back in like 2012-2014 things were great. I was a hardcore pirate, and even I stopped. Crazy, right? This crap only incentivizes people like me to pick up where we left off damn near a decade ago, but fortunately, they couldn't pay me enough to steal their hot garbage 99% of the time, so I don't. As for games, I just wait until the whole game is actually finished, and then buy it for like 20 bucks a year or 2 after release if the company hasn't pulled a scumbag move, if they have like w your Metro Exodus or your Cyberpunk, then those games might as well not even exist to me. And since I'm talking about that, I will point out that any game from EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, Nintendo, Epic, and Rockstar already don't exist to me. I mean FFS, Sony is treating PC gamers better than PC game publishers. People chasing the shiny new thing plus their spending habits while doing so are wreaking havoc on our entertainment quality, while enabling the exact kind of corporate theft and poor consumer practices we are looking at spreading nearly universally. Close your Wallets! Close your Wallets! Close your Wallets!

@nexusrising2047

6 ай бұрын

I remember those years during Netflix's domination. It got super hard to find pirate content for their shows on public trackers. Then companies started removing their content and splintered the content. After that I was able to download the shows again. Got a bit dicey there though.

Breachbof contract. If you have very deep pockets, but you would win. Unless you take costs into consideration, which imagine will not be recoverable.