• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 hours ago

    There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren’t even alive when this comic was drawn. I’m old.

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Technically you can: if you distribute the comic but don’t give the attribution, you are breaking the terms of the license which is just about the closest thing to “pirating” it that you can do.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        But “breach of license” is so much more lame than “piracy!”*

        *Yes, a lot of piracy is itself breach of license, hush

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
      12·
      10 hours ago

      xkcd comics are available under a CC-By-NC 2.5 licence, so you’ve successfully pirated by not including attribution (as long as people can’t tell at a glance that it’s xkcd from the art style or comment thread you posted it to), but to seal the deal, it’d be a crime to sell it.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        8 hours ago

        I couldn’t tell at glance this was from xkcd and am willing to testify to a jury, when’s the court date?

  • owl@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    Here is my idea: Everyone makes a private key. When they buy a song they receive the file and a digital signature by the label saying they sold it to your private key. When you are caught with a bunch of songs, you have to prove ownership using your key. Tadaa provable ownership, no blockchain, You loose the file, but still have the signature? You can download it again and all is good.

  • Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    12 hours ago

    Small note: iTunes doesn’t have DRM anymore (since 2009)

    Apple Music (the subscription) has DRM though, but you should never have a collection on a subscription service, because it can go away at any time

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      You mean those things that get scratched all the time and not have their revenue go towards the artist anyway?

      • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Several years back, a group of friends and I gathered with our copies of the Nine Inch Nails album “The Downward Spiral.” Unfortunately, all three CDs were heavily scratched. However, by combining parts of the same songs that played well on different discs, we managed to create a complete version of the entire album.

        The record companies never gave a damn about quality.

  • Thalfon@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    14 hours ago

    Last time I bought audiobooks I got them from Downpour which included DRM-free downloads as either MP3 or M4B files, in addition to listening through the website or app. I believe Libro.fm may also offer this. Most of my ebooks are through Kobo and are DRM free as well.

    Does depend in some cases on the publisher.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    19·
    15 hours ago

    Support creators though. Especially if the thing you pirate isn’t from a soulless corporation. This is why creators should always have something like a ko-fi or Patreon page. So I can pay them directly if I enjoyed their work.

    • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I buy a ton of XKCD merch for this very purpose. I support others on Patreon, by buying from their advertisers and by buying their audiobooks on Libro.fm or a physical copy.

      Amazon and other middlemen add nothing, they simply take a cut off the top. They maintain DRM solely to extract an maximum profits and lock in their customers and sellers. It is extortion and should be illegal.

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
    17·
    15 hours ago

    I buy most of my music from Qobuz or Bandcamp. Perfectly DRM-free with lossless compression, and it’s mine forever.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    89·
    21 hours ago

    PSA: Download all your kindle books. Even if you don’t plan on cracking their DRM, you’ll have the option to in the future should you want to.

  • comrade19@lemmy.world
    141·
    16 hours ago

    I have to download pirated video games otherwise I can’t play them offline on my handheld. They also launch 10x faster. I learnt that you can’t use everything you own a copy of offline!

    • Scorbunny@lemmy.world
      9·
      15 hours ago

      I use a mix of Goldberg emulator and GOG i prefer Steam though. Mostly for valves Proton compatibility layer and all that valve does for linux gaming. So if a game is drm free on steam i get it there.

      Fuck denuvo tho that shit needs to die in a fire.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought everybody was making a big deal over Civ 7 getting an official release because denuvo doesn’t work on linux?

        I read people saying the lack of denuvo made the linux version the best version just for the fact that it’s the PC release without denuvo?

        Did I misunderstand?

      • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I’m not the person you replied to, but if you’ve ever tried to launch an EA game with the DRM intact it’s awful. You have to go through like multiple loading screens for the “EA App” before the game will start and then sometimes it just breaks and won’t launch your game even though the game itself is perfectly fine.