If buying isn't owning, Piracy isn't stealing?

[LarryMyster]

Disclaimer: I DO NOT CONDONE ILLEGAL PIRACY! Neither should anyone on the internet for that matter. However, this topic as been getting poplar as of late due to the giant influx of Subscription services screwing people over and game companies pulling the plug on a product that you bought but cannot access anymore. This is mostly about preservation of goods and what TRUE ownership means.

This past few years, streaming companies have been offering "ad-free" subs to some people, but it's not "ad free," there is a catch... Only selected titles are ad free. When you buy something that says ad-free you would expect it as much to be ALL ad free, right? Nope apparently not... The misleading and mishandling of these companies are greedy and predatory. Their choice of words in a language that they convey to only have the customer of simply put; "gotcha moment." The very sight of any ad that are placed there for me, I unsub right then and there. Oh? But where is the cancel button? It's hidden... of course it is. Now I am required to call to request my payment information to be taken off. And most times the phone services are not that great, its all automated... Ugh... Frustrating!

Now this is where that saying is mostly coming from. It's consumers who are bloody tired of now truly owning what they get and justifying the need to well... pirate in order to preserve. Not saying you should all just say screw it and go and download off some sketchy Russian site riddled with Trojan Virus... oh no screw that... Get it the Legit way, and get the product you want, but I would ignore the license agreement. Keep it as long as possible. As far as the subscriptions go, I wouldn't even bother. You're better off getting a DVD physical copy of the show or movie.

Here is an example... Cartoon Network. All of the greats back in the day like Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Powerpuff Girls, or Ed Edd' n Eddy. These are all going away! Quite literally! Streaming services are taking them off, Cartoon Network doesn't exist nor does Boomerang that hosted all these old classic cartoons. It's a tragedy we are losing so much history in a blink of an eye with no preservation planned.

[Pcmaker]

I download everything from torrent sites


unless its on netflix or some streaming I subscribe to

[Shawn]

I'll admit when I was a teenager, I downloaded music from WinMX and Limewire. Maybe Kaza, too.

I don't anymore personally. I rarely watch TV and any music I want is on my YouTube Premium, ad free and pretty cheap.

I do however investigate theft for a living working in gaming surveillance. Sometimes my investigations lead to warrants and prison time. I do agree that what we call theft is theft, too.

[LarryMyster]

I do however investigate theft for a living working in gaming surveillance. Sometimes my investigations lead to warrants and prison time. I do agree that what we call theft is theft, too.

How does one get into that line of work? Is it like Cyber Forensics or like private security contractor? If you can't disclose due to like NDA I get it. But I have cousin who is going into that field. What worries me is he doesn't know very much about computers and I'm just like huh...