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Do you find piracy more fun than consuming the pirated content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like lately I’ve been doing more piracy than actually using the content I’ve been pirating. Curating a library has been so enjoyable lately, I’m not the only one right?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes I just see it as a necessary evil. It's also nice to know if corporations ever decide to wipe all their content off the Internet or something I always have my trusty hard drives packed with all my favorite media.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I never understood this until I saw link rot in action. Great projects just disappeared when people forgot to renew domain names or hosting contracts. Others went away when big services like Geocities vanished. Wikipedia and Google censorship took out a lot of others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "Wikipedia and Google censorship"? I'm actually super curious, are there examples of stuff being censored and removed from wikipedia for example? Like projects or games?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, frequently. They also like to keep stuff off of Wikipedia with arbitrary "notability" rules. There used to be a great community of Wikipedia critics, but I've lost all the links.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You only underestimate the importance of archival and preservation once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Regret is a powerful teacher!