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blindsight, 1 year ago to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

Wow. That’s definitely a take.

I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear that you aren’t subsidizing anything. Lower regional pricing in developing nations has absolutely no effect on the price in developing nations for games. There is no subsidizing because there aren’t any costs to subsidize.

blindsight, 1 year ago to news in US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm

She didn’t even “go to Dubai”. It was a layover.

blindsight, 1 year ago to piracy in Pirates, all of a sudden, discussing PAID options!!? How did we regress that far !?

I suppose it depends on your jurisdiction. Uploading is what’s (potentially) illegal in Canada. Downloading is (probably) legal.

And neither have been tried by courts because mass John Doe suits have been shut down by our courts.

Regardless, the legal risk of downloading here is basically zero, so there’s effectively no risk to using a debrid service.

blindsight, 1 year ago to piracy in Pirates, all of a sudden, discussing PAID options!!? How did we regress that far !?

idk, a debrid service is so cheap, it costs less to pay than to buy the hard drives and server + power. And it has pretty much everything already, so it’s more convenient, too.

It’s hard to justify dropping a pile of cash on 3 drives for a RAID when it will take about a decade to pay for itself vs. debrid, by which point I’ll need to replace the drives. Plus, it takes more time to set up, maintain, and load the desired media.