PSA: Download all your kindle books. Even if you don’t plan on cracking their DRM, you’ll have the option to in the future should you want to.
Though do it before the end of the month! (Edit: the 26th) Amazon is taking that option away
Wednesday the 26th, not the end of the month. If anyone is thinking they’ll get to it later, you have three days from this post
Thanks for catching that
I’m confused, what if you want to read somewhere you don’t have internet?
And that’s why Bandcamp exists. No DRM, whatever format you like and you support the artist.
Oh man. One time, at band camp…🐈⬛ 🪈
Yes? Did something happen at band camp?
Plus prices on there are lower than basically everywhere but amazon, and amazon doesn’t really count because they only give you low quality MP3s
I’d pay for it once to support the creators. Once and once only.
But think of the shareholders? How can they afford that 8th yacht?? 🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️🛥️
After I paid Metallica for their music, more than once in some cases, and then they went to war on us fans, been stealing since.
I use audible, but remove the drm with Libation.
Support creators though. Especially if the thing you pirate isn’t from a soulless corporation. This is why creators should always have something like a ko-fi or Patreon page. So I can pay them directly if I enjoyed their work.
I buy a ton of XKCD merch for this very purpose. I support others on Patreon, by buying from their advertisers and by buying their audiobooks on Libro.fm or a physical copy.
Amazon and other middlemen add nothing, they simply take a cut off the top. They maintain DRM solely to extract an maximum profits and lock in their customers and sellers. It is extortion and should be illegal.
Dox them and send an envelope with cash.
Libation is your friend.
There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren’t even alive when this comic was drawn. I’m old.
When purchasing isn’t ownership, then piracy isn’t theft.
That’s why it’s legal to carjack rental cars.
I tried, but I can’t, since it’s Creative Commons
For DRM free audiobooks check out Libro.fm.
I have to download pirated video games otherwise I can’t play them offline on my handheld. They also launch 10x faster. I learnt that you can’t use everything you own a copy of offline!
I use a mix of Goldberg emulator and GOG i prefer Steam though. Mostly for valves Proton compatibility layer and all that valve does for linux gaming. So if a game is drm free on steam i get it there.
Fuck denuvo tho that shit needs to die in a fire.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought everybody was making a big deal over Civ 7 getting an official release because denuvo doesn’t work on linux?
I read people saying the lack of denuvo made the linux version the best version just for the fact that it’s the PC release without denuvo?
Did I misunderstand?
Which handheld, and what are 3 examples of games that launch 10x faster?
I’m not the person you replied to, but if you’ve ever tried to launch an EA game with the DRM intact it’s awful. You have to go through like multiple loading screens for the “EA App” before the game will start and then sometimes it just breaks and won’t launch your game even though the game itself is perfectly fine.
I buy CDs and rip them into lossless myself unless it’s not available and then I’ll sail
As far as music goes, Qobuz is DRM-free.
bandcamp too.
and 7digital which somehow still exists lol
Source: xkcd.com/488
But this was already literally a link to that URL
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