How do you pirate without going to jail

7-8 slaps on the wrist before your ISP gets a bit annoyed at your incompetence and backlines you to shit connection/terminates the contract/forces you to renew the contract, depending on which ISP you have
criminal action is rare

businessinsider.com/switzerland-piracy-2011-12?IR=T

if you upload shit or host you might get vanned but if you are just downloading stuff no one is going to come after you.

If you open this spoiler, you will be on a list for sure.

Switzerland is based. Similar in Canada though now the MPAA or RIAA will send you a letter through the ISP letting you know that they know but they can't take action.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada#2007:_RCMP_toleration_for_personal_and_non-profit_use

You REALLY don't want to click this spoiler.

That's a common misconception. It's actually illegal not to pirate.

Don't get anons started on Canadia.

If you aren't already on a list, you are now.

Enjoy the life, tell the kikes to kiss your ass.

so long if you dont sell the shit you * download * you'll be fine

What's the point of CP if not for selling?

Well this is one example where Canada is less cucked than the US.

I want to click it

Not worth it, trust me.

Curiosity is gonna kill you, m8

i pirate games all the time.

i'm currently on the run from the law right now

they are serious, they will hunt you down

every city i go to i think im safe, i log on to my computer and the NSA is sending me death threats

i just want to make it stop

Why? Did they elect a nigger for two terms or something?

But what if it's candy?

You can't say I didn't warn you.
This one won't send you in jail, though

Why the fuck would you want candy?

I'M GONNA DO IT!

I BET IT IS CANDY YOU ANTI-SUGAR SHILL!

A-all right. If you want to get stuck on candy, more power to you.

Don't say I never warned you.

If you're lurking 8ch you're already on a list, you retard.

What is it

Depends on where you are.
I know in Texas there's exceptions if it's "legally classified abandonware" and if you're pirating software that you own, for say emulation, it's legal if you can prove at one point you owned a legitimate copy of the software because texas laws aren't retarded and to prevent people from getting the equipment to rip games, they just say you can download a rom/iso of a game you already own.

It's fucking genius to be totally honest.

Regular images. Like anyone on Holla Forums would have legit CP and balls to post it.

I mean piratefags are complete cancer, and deserve to be shot, but that doesn't mean you can't have typically lenient laws concerning abandonware.
If you pirate a brand new game day one you're a fucking faggot

i pirate shitty indie games and play them
and then say "they're fucking shit"

however i found one good game called "Redout", I enjoyed it so much that I decided to shill the game nonstop.

Also buy redout

Confirmed for not having opened the spoilers.

its simple, just don't pirate anything anybody has an invested dollar in.
Abandonware for the most part is good.
Even those games that are re-published (like old NES, snes, and other sorts) for emulators because often times the republished games have different updates and shit with them.

Make no mistake, though. "Piracy" is still illegal.
For people who are downloading (not seeding) it is essentially a form of theft. But its such a small sort of theft that all you get is fined.
For those who are PROVIDING the pirated content it is a form of copyright infringement and if you actually make money from it you could face jail time.
You don't fuck with corporate profits and get away with it in the United States.
But that's just the trick. Don't "pirate" what anybody is looking to make money off of.

On another note, I've seen plenty of excuses for piracy over the years.

To those sorts of excuses, and the many more like it, I would just like to say that if you're so uncomfortable with what you are doing that you have to do that sort of mental gymnastics to justify your actions to yourself then maybe you shouldn't do it?
And yes, I mean yourself because nobody with two working brain cells would actually buy into those excuses as valid.
On top of that, nobody really cares.
And if you do truly believe that shit then why the fuck are you wasting your time, a resource that is consistent in its scarcity, on a shitty game?

nah i think ill just pirate it

It is illegal, but it is not theft. It is also immoral not to pirate most shit nowadays.

Nigger please, I live in a country where you can post CP on facebook and nothing's gonna happen to you, ever. Back in the day it was in fact a fun chan game, getting normalfags to freak out using CP. Fast forward few years and they made websites legally required to remove CP but other than that nothing changed.

If they're fucking shit, why'd you play them to begin with retard.

if they had a list of everyone who has inquired about piracy I would be willing to bet over 75% of America is on that list

doubt it

please elaborate, as I live and Texas and that is very relevant to me

why the fuck should I give money to devs that produce shit content

I have it too but this is King Nigger we're talking about here.

Also if I recall, showing any support or being pro-GG during its hey day meant that you got put on the same list of hate groups

Why should you give them your time?

You see, whenever this excuse pops up I can only think that you are at best lying to yourself about the enjoyment you had with the game or at worst you are hopelessly addicted.

And I do have to acknowledge that many many people have strongly addictive personalities and that addiction is more psychological than physical in most cases.
So if you're willing to pirate shitty games and play them even though they are shitty then you're no different than the crack head who is sucking a dick for a low quality pea-sized crack rock.

You shouldn't, and you shouldn't be playing shit games either. As for legally classified abandonware, you can basically pirate anything gamecube and back that ISN'T being still sold, BIOS files for PS2/PS1 are off limits (For now) since Sony is still using them commercially.

Piracy is communist

I pirate without any protection whatsoever.

cool

How am I to know if the game is shit if I haven't played it? I'm fine with paying for a game if I know it's good but paying 60 dineros is not a risk I'm willing to take

Fucking gay

>theft - In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it

ah but so many make that excuse without even having touched the game to begin with. Remember, the excuse isn't "What if its shit" its always "IT IS SHIT ANYWAY".
At any rate, there is bound to be youtube gameplay videos, streams, and all sorts of resources even if there is no demo for the game in question.
The only reason you would have to pirate it is because you want it on "day zero" so you can talk about it with all the rest of your friends or whatever.

Just admit that you want to get something for free and you're going to do so just as long as the threat of punishment is so low that its negligible.

ah but so many make that excuse without even having touched the game to begin with. Remember, the excuse isn't "What if its shit" its always "IT IS SHIT ANYWAY".
At any rate, there is bound to be youtube gameplay videos, streams, and all sorts of resources even if there is no demo for the game in question.
The only reason you would have to pirate it is because you want it on "day zero" so you can talk about it with all the rest of your friends or whatever.

Just admit that you want to get something for free and you're going to do so just as long as the threat of punishment is so low that its negligible.

Yeah, its theft. I don't know what you're trying to get at. You didn't purchase the rights to use the software from the copyright holder so you are stealing it.
You may think that's bullshit but it is the law.

Didn't meant to double post. This fucking website is getting screwy again.

Reminder that you should only buy Japanese games (in Japanese, of course) and pirate everything else.

I am not a cheapskate, but there are some games I refuse to buy for various reasons. Please take your faggot morals and leave

should i also convert my bucks into yen and mail them via kamakaze pilot?

You can't stop me goldstein

oh, user you poor schmuck
listen to the song I posted, from 1 minute in and onwards
you would pay for air if someone sold it to you in a neat little package

do u live in a holiday inn

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I wish tbh, they have better internet than I do

A mistake I do not intend to repeat. I did get them on sale though, so it isn't that big of a loss

It's an unenforceable law though, due to the ease with which software data can replicate and spread.
Even monitoring for it would require backdoors so large you could park your car in them, and DRM does nothing to deter piracy, and when you use DRM badly remember Spore? it actively encourages people to not buy it.

Also, there's a big hole in calling piracy theft since theft requires the original owner to be deprived of their possession, when even a 5-year-old can tell you that copying a thing leaves behind the original.
The proper term is "violation of copyright," and I don't think those laws have been seriously examined since making massive numbers of copies for distribution represented a significant investment.

I like this explanation, although it's a bit extreme to say that you just shouldn't pirate anything anyone's trying to make money off of. Piracy laws are really poorly enforced; there just aren't enough resources to catch a significant proportion of pirates out there, and torrents by their nature are difficult to track. And you can make it even safer with proxies and VPNs.

pls no bully

Only if you send it with a signed apology for not recognizing grorious Nippon as the true victor of WWII.

Guess you were lying about not being a cheapskate. :^)

P L S N O B U L L Y

Don't confuse the law with morality.
Are you seriously this fucking dumb or are you just a teenager?

That's right, a law is only as good as its capability to be enforced.
However, some of the theory on how to enforce a law sort of relies on the threat of punishment if caught.
If the law were truly easy to enforce, as a downloader, you would be probably hit up with something no bigger than a speeding-ticket's worth of fines and penalties. A misdemeanor more than anything else.
But since it is difficult, those that they DO catch are made examples of. The theory being that those examples can help deter people from doing it.

I remember someone who was forced to pay 80,000~ USD because they caught him with a pirated copy of that Ang Lee "The Hulk" movie. The one from the early 2000's that was really shitty and bombed at the box office.
It is shit like that which is why I say don't go after popular or current things if you're going to pirate at all.
Pirating Star Wars episode 7 might get you caught while pirating Dune certainly never will.

Also, violating copyright is becoming more and more of a pressing issue since we have long since moved over from a goods-producing economy into an information and services exchanging one. Expect these laws to get stricter, harsher, and start to look more like laws pertaining to stealing of physical goods.
I think right now violating copyright is still a Civil issue. It may soon turn into one of Federal crime.
Cracking into "secure" computer systems already is.

Insightful. Not that it matters much; I don't pirate anymore anyway. It's sappy, but it just didn't feel right. Your earlier comment was spot on; I was only trying so hard to justify it because I didn't like that I was doing it.

whatever brah

but you didn't prove me wrong.

k

You already have confirmed shit taste just go pirate you double nigger. Think about from a business stand point. The government doesn't give a fuck about bootlegged movies or pirated video games. Your ISP never reports you unless you're in a next level cucked country. Why would your ISP report a paying customer? Unless it's CP that you're downloading you're ISP doesn't give a fuck. Worst case scenario is that they'll send a cease and desist and than you can tell them to fuck off and continue pirating.

someone open it

Or better yet since you're not a cheap fuck like you say, go buy a VPN. It's like 50$ max a year and you pirate all the free games you want.

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But your personal purchase history has nothing to do with anything.
Why are you trying to justify this to me? I don't give a fuck what you do.
Could it be that you just feel guilty?

would it trigger you to know that a preordered Fallout 4

I opened it, pic related

I would say buying games proves that I'm not just too cheap to buy games

then why the fuck do you keep replying, and why are you in the thread at all

for doing what? I have never even pirated a game

Alright, you know that's a bullshit move, user. You can't argue with someone and then use the very fact that they defend their viewpoint against them.

Never got any trouble for torrenting or vidya, though once I got a letter from my ISP for torrenting the Truman show

If you open this spoiler, you will be on a list for sure.

was hillary decent looking as a teenager?

not really. she was a cute when she was a little girl tho

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if you didn't know that was HRC you would think she's cute.

She doesn't look cute.

Even when young she looks like the mortal vessel for a fucking demon.

to each his own I guess

How is it a bullshit move? Also he never defended his fucking viewpoint at all. He just said there are some games he doesn't buy for "various reasons".
I have to assume then that since he doesn't also refuse to PLAY those games that those various reasons are actually bullshit.
And then all he did was proclaim he proved me wrong.
He's an idiot and you would do well not to follow suit.

It is very simple. Don't be a hypocrite and just admit you want to play games for free and will do so when possible.
That's all there is to it.
Is it really so hard?

For the record:
Fapping to traps and shemales is gay.
Fapping to loli porn is pedophilia.

Stop. Lying. To. Yourselves.

You just do it, you pussy nigger.

Jesus fucking Christ, user. I'm gonna have nightmares about this shit.

Private trackers or, use a seedbox for public torrents.
Don't pay to pirate, though. Faggot.
Get into gazellegames.net/application.php

smh

Question: How do you feel about the act of pirating a game for one platform when you already own it on another? For instance, I pirated Deus Ex Human Revolution on PC, but I own that shit on PS3. I already paid my due, and it's essentially the exact same experience. Sure, it may run at a higher frame rate, but I'll be fucked if I'm going to shell out money just for that. If I ever catch it during a sale, I might throw down some cash for it, but I hate the idea of paying for something more than once.

I guess there is some confusion here. I don't have a feeling about piracy at all.
I just don't want to see anons be hypocrites and lie to themselves about their reasons.
Furthermore, it is clear about what the law states. If caught you might get fucked. I don't think you'd have a strong argument considering the game is still sold on both platforms.

Nintendo, in an effort to stop the piracy in the form of emulated games started to re-publish their old games on virtual console, GBA, etc etc. Many other companies are doing the same.
However, because they often add some new features (HD graphics) or some other shit, you could possibly get away with the argument that the game you wanted was not being currently sold on the platform or in the state that you wanted it in. The Super Mario Bros. 3 game on GBA is far different than the one that was on NES, for example.

On a side/personal note: I think that given the current state of multi-platform design specification and publishing that you have every right to a game on a different platform so long as they're all sold as essentially the same on those platforms. In fact, I find it rather reprehensible that you can't just buy a game and have keys/licenses to put it on whatever platform it is available for.
You guys want to start fighting back at the jewery of the video game industry you need to start pushing for THAT.

Take your own advice and just stop.

Companies obviously don't like it but they do have to begrudgingly accept sometimes that it can drive sales due to it acting like a demo and/or free advertising a lot of the time. You always hear those moral fags saying they're just trying before they buy and sometimes they're being serious. You only get into murky water if you're hosting/making a lot of pirated content since you're the one infringing on copyright and even then you'd have to be hosting a lot of stuff to get any serious action.

As long as you don't have shit taste and are pirating all the popular normalfag shit you'll be fine.

so nobody cares if I download Japanese pedophilia simulator from 1998 but if I pirate overwatch or something I have some cause to be concerned?

Exactly, and even then most ISPs will just give you a message telling you to cool it with the torrenting if you're really going overboard since it's actually in their interests to turn a blind eye most of the time since you're using their service more.

I guess I dont exist then :3

sage

We elected a Justin "It's 2016" Trudeau

Bestiality is legal.

why would you enter the thread just to sage it

Try not to avoid pirating new shit and use a VPN.

In Canada, you can pirate shit only if it's for personal use. Sharing shit is illegal though.

sage

To be fair, the alternative is the version of Ted Cruz who never left Canada.

:/

Why did you do that to me?

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I think it's about that time. Good night.

Lets be clear her the alternative is Mulcair.
There is no way Harper was going to get in again.
personally I still think Mulcair would have been worse then Trudeau just in different ways

On topic though if you are really worried about it just get a VPN or something.

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>>>/4chan/

Get on my IRL loli-beastiality level.

that poor cat.

not unless you were one of those lucky few that just happened to be more equal than the rest

At risk of bringing Holla Forums here I would suggest that certain forms of government only work for certain population and territory sizes.

Communism works in SMALL populations. I'm talking village-sized small populations at max.
As you expand out, you need to get further and further capitalist and libertarian both economically and socially.

Seems fair

Obama won the peace prize in the field of not being Bush.

Everyone knows it.
Even he does.

By that logic. Hillary should win a peace prize for not being Trump because if he wins the presidency, it will become a real life Purge event.

Honestly I think the left and right is scared of a Trump presidency only because he is the closest thing to an independent winning the prize that there has been in a LONG LONG LONG time.

Just want to add that part of that fear is because the left AND right have been expanding presidential powers for decades now.
It may very well fall into the hands of someone they can't really control.

Didnt LL make this

the only way communism could or can ever work is if one somehow manages to remove any and all other alternatives to it , including death

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1/8 terrible performance m8

typical.
you didn't read the part where I said it only works for small communities at the size of max a village.

Guess you're a retard.

Depends on the state. I got wristslaps in Texas but none in Colorado so far. Though i no longer use pirate bay either, so…

>>>/cuck/

Anyone want an invite to BC or GG?

Yeah, OP is definitely either a normalfag, an underageb&, or a retard

I've been pirating countless games and movies since I figured out how Limewire worked back in 2002.

People don't just "go to jail" for pirating shit. In fact, I'd say less than 0.1% of everyone who's ever pirated anything ever software wise has ever gotten a warning for it, and even less than that have actually gone to jail over it. The cost of pursuing pirates is almost never actually justified (if you don't consider the difficulty in measuring the values of the software being copied in the first place) so governments rarely do it.

The legal implications and justifications of piracy is heavily debated. I do not believe it is morally wrong to copy and paste a piece of software. and there are millions of people in fact who would agree with me

Anyways, this is a discussion for another thread

OP, if you are still here, I urge you to read up on the following subjects;

-The Pirates' Party

-The Free Culture Movement

-The Free Software movement

-The Digital Rights movement

next you'll be arguing that [x] wasn't small enough that's why it failed
keep doubling down

>>>/ovens/

so like 90% of the piratefags on Holla Forums?

I feel like using pirate as a label is equivalent to using "gamer" as a label, its fucking retarded

Nigger, pirating is free and easy, not to mention its a misnomer to begin with since you're actually just copying and pasting the software

Piracy is basically like Jesus miracle of multiplying bread and fish for poor people

You take one file, and multiply it, the original is still there and no one lost anything.
You just created 2 form 1, its the pure form of sharing and kindness that bible tells us about.

Basically it should be every good Christian obligation to pirate and share thus following the steps of Jesus

its silly, but some people wear it with flamboyant pride

oh I get it, its bait.
I guess i'll just filter you now.
If its not bait, i'm sorry that your understanding of governments and human nature didn't get much past your middle school classes.

I'd throw in The Piracy Crusade to the top of the required list.

piracycrusade.com/

Thanks, Black King.

Piracy gives you an idea on how the game actually plays like, when publishers stopped putting out demo versions. So if you find the game fun, sooner or later you'll feel obliged to buy the game, maybe even premium edition. If you get bored with the game before buying it, it probably was not worth the price anyway.

Piracy also helps keeping the games available and untouched, when devs don't care about it anymore or care enough to retroactively censor the game or outright remove it because you can't be arsed to reacquire rights to the ingame music or vehicle model or something

dingo fucker pls

Good posting.

you install the super hacker os known as gentoo to be beyond the reach of the law

holy fuck. sauce on that webm?

Oh right, I forgot my computer was running on the concentrated energy of whiny worried americans

Depends from country to country. If you're in the US it's technically copyright infringement so yes, but then again so making fan art of copyrighted properties is posting image of copyrighted material on a Taiwanese picture book forum.

The only thing protecting you is the rights holder not giving enough of a shit to stop you.

*as is posting images of copyrighted material on a Taiwanese picture book forum.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides the framework for the repression of piracy under international law, in particular in its articles 100 to 107 and 110.

So yes, piracy is definitely illegal.

And as the only way to make any reasonable living would be targetting international shipping lanes, which governments are quite touchy about, there really is no way to pirate without going ot jail.
Unless we count getting shot on sight as not going to jail.

"no it isn't"

tbf canada has like no intellectual property anyway. the reason americunts are so big on anti-piracy is because a majority of media is produced there. with a handful of exceptions, I don't see anyone jumping to dl shit that's produced outside of america too often.

I'll take one, not sure what either of those are.

Why is this thread still up

Because I make the best threads