Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 4 天前

Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

jet@hackertalks.com · 4 天前

Depends, are we talking the highest retail price? Or clearance prices?

Let’s take steam as an example, before steam existed I was a big pirate. Now that steam exists and it’s so convenient I basically buy every game. But I only buy them after wish listing them and waiting until they get to like $5 or less. So I’m a bargain basement patient gamer.

For other things I’m the same way, so what would be the actual cost of a cheapskates pirate library? Flea market clearance DVD prices would be fair

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · 4 天前

The question is up to interpetation.

The $5000 estimate is if the law catched up to me right now after the fact. For me personally, if piracy weren’t a thing, I probably wouldn’t have spend much on entertainment and would’ve just been reading wikis for the story, and only pay to watch something if the story is really good and has good reviews. 90% of the stuff I watched now would probably never would’ve watched in that other timeline.

As for video games, I would’ve only been play free-to-play games and watching youtube playthroughs.

Probably wouldn’t understand a lot of memes. But then again, if piracy werent a thing, many other people also wouldn’t understand those memes.