Weekend Open Forum: What's the first thing you remember pirating online?

[pandu9933]

It was a twilight movie !! LOL

 

[Daithi]

So nice to see we have so many upstanding citizens here. Never listened to an album or watched an episode of a tv show on youtube, never googled a PDF or downloaded abandonware, threw down the 600 or so bucks for your image editing software and paid for winrar and all I assume.

 

[captaincranky]

So nice to see we have so many upstanding citizens here. Never listened to an album or watched an episode of a tv show on youtube, never googled a PDF or downloaded abandonware, threw down the 600 or so bucks for your image editing software and paid for winrar and all I assume.

Well, speaking strictly for myself, I have Photoshop CS-4, 2 copies of Photoshop Elements 13, PSE-7, 2 copies of PSE-5, and a PSE- 3 + Premiere 3 bundle, oh, and a copy of Lightroom 4, all provably bought and paid for. AFAIK, it's still legal to record OTA TV and I have standalone DVD recorders for that purpose. I'm not really stupid enough, or web addicted enough, to think you can't legally time shift a TV program without YouTube or a cable.subscription.I also buy music CDs. If an entire album isn't worth buying, I'll buy MP3 single songs from Amazon.

And BTW, all I need in the way of file compression software is 7Zip, and that's a freebie.

I don't know about whether or not many of our members are, "bad citizens", but when confronted with a heavily loaded question such as this week's WOF topic, I expect they have the good taste and more importantly, the good sense to keep their mouths shut. Since I don' see reverend in any part of your screen name, I feel no obligation whatsoever to make any sort of confession to you.

Something else I don't see in your title is a post count. Since I'm pretty sure that joining this site for the express purpose of accusing its membership of being liars and thieves is in truly poor taste, I'm going to suggest that you follow everyone's lead, and shut your yap as well.

 

[RustyTech]

I wonder if this question is to identify age? Who in their right mind would answer this question...unless they just woke up - that's forgivable.

 

[Daithi]

Well, speaking strictly for myself, I have Photoshop CS-4, 2 copies of Photoshop Elements 13, PSE-7, 2 copies of PSE-5, and a PSE- 3 + Premiere 3 bundle, oh, and a copy of Lightroom 4, all provably bought and paid for. AFAIK, it's still legal to record OTA TV and I have standalone DVD recorders for that purpose. I'm not really stupid enough, or web addicted enough, to think you can't legally time shift a TV program without YouTube or a cable.subscription.I also buy music CDs. If an entire album isn't worth buying, I'll buy MP3 single songs from Amazon.

And BTW, all I need in the way of file compression software is 7Zip, and that's a freebie.

I don't know about whether or not many of our members are, "bad citizens", but when confronted with a heavily loaded question such as this week's WOF topic, I expect they have the good taste and more importantly, the good sense to keep their mouths shut. Since I don' see reverend in any part of your screen name, I feel no obligation whatsoever to make any sort of confession to you.

If my post came off as judgemental, I'm sorry, I didn't intend that. I just find it a bit disingenuous for anyone that's used the internet for any extended length of time to say they've never pirated anything in their entire lives when what qualifies as piracy is so broad. I'm not looking for any confession and it doesn't make anyone a bad citizen, everyone does it to some extent, so there's no reason to be so uptight about it.

I just don't see where the paranoia is coming from, maybe I'm wrong but I don't think it's really in techspot's best interest to sell out their users for admitting to copying a game off a friend in 1997.

Also the winrar thing was a joke. I use 7zip too.

Something else I don't see in your title is a post count. Since I'm pretty sure that joining this site for the express purpose of accusing its membership of being liars and thieves is in truly poor taste, I'm going to suggest that you follow everyone's lead, and shut your yap as well.

That's not why I joined and I'm not interested in forum politics.

 

[captaincranky]

If my post came off as judgemental, I'm sorry, I didn't intend that. I just find it a bit disingenuous for anyone that's used the internet for any extended length of time to say they've never pirated anything in their entire lives when what qualifies as piracy is so broad. I'm not looking for any confession and it doesn't make anyone a bad citizen, everyone does it to some extent, so there's no reason to be so uptight about it.
I just don't see where the paranoia is coming from, maybe I'm wrong but I don't think it's really in techspot's best interest to sell out their users for admitting to copying a game off a friend in 1997.

Well, if you'll check the root "forum" page, you'll see that the software we're using, gives not just a count of people using the site, (as in members / guests), but the "robot" count as well! Those critters are web crawlers indexing content. I haven't the most remote inclination to believe that "Techspot would sell out its users". I'm also acutely aware that, "once something is on the web, it's practically impossible to remove it"!

So, with all the whimpering that goes on here at this site, (and many, many others), about Google "reading your email", (and they do, to what extent is another loooong discussion), the NSA allegedly listening to and recording every cell phone call in the world, along with every politician in the country being a "meat puppet for the MMPA / RIAA", it seems to me that when posting any soul baring confession about someone's piratical sins of the past, that a pre-internet gem of common sense wisdom attaches vigorously, "discretion is the better part of valor".

I viewed the topic as a question not about pirating in and of itself, but rather more of a, "how stupid do you think I am really", basic IQ test. Some of our more immature members will gladly sound their own foghorns blustering about how, "I'm a pirate, argh". When in reality, (IMHO), they're likely nothing more than simple torrent leeches.

This site doesn't tolerate discussions about piracy in any of its tech forums, and requests for information on DVD ripping and such are truncated very quickly. Then, either terminated by a, "that's definitely a no-no here", or removed altogether. Given that fact, starting this topic was a bit duplicitous in itself

Speaking for myself, I normally stay about as far away from political correctness as possible. But patently branding the entire membership as liars and thieves, (yes, even in the subtext), is way over the top, even by my minimal to null standards.

Also the winrar thing was a joke. I use 7zip too.

Having campaigned vigorously for a "" emoticon for this new software, (to no avail I might add), I'm aware that sarcasm sometimes unfortunately goes unnoticed and under-appreciated.

However, on a joke rating scale of 1 to 10, with "1" being, "spare me dude", to "10" being a "ROFLMAO", that one scored a..........(wait for it)......a.......oh, never mind.

That's not why I joined and I'm not interested in forum politics.

Well, that can't be true, even if not so by your own design. The "news and comments" forum is virtually nothing but Op-Ed. With so many wildly divergent opinions, I'm not sure how one would come close to avoiding forum politics.

And BTW, welcome to Techspot...(y)