• @oatscoop@midwest.social
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      281 year ago

      They’re just lying about pirating to look cool.

      I highly doubt there are any actual pirates on here, it’s just users being edgy. A bunch of dorks that don’t even own a boat role playing badass pirates.

      • @jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        I’d like to be that variety of pirate, at least in the older style. Not so much a modern nautical pirate though.

        • Johnny
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          51 year ago

          Being a pirate back in the day was also less pleasant than creative media has led us to believe, I’m afraid

      • @jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago
        1. I’m not American either.
        2. The vast majority of countries in the world have copyright.

        Now I’m not morally against piracy, pirate away. It’s just illegal.

    • @penguin@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      101 year ago

      I think many people just couldn’t care less about pirating and believe the companies can’t figure out who they are. For example, I discuss pirating stuff pretty openly on my reddit account. But every single comment I make, I consciously make sure to not reveal enough for people to dox me.

      I also don’t have Facebook which is how most people figure out identities.

      “Hmm, they’re an underwater welder from a specific small town and they have three sons. Well this is the only Facebook profile that matches that so I bet it’s this person” type of thing.

      • @void_wanderer@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        You are only truly anonymous if you always use a VPN or Tor. If not, Reddit has your IP and the ISP knows who is behind the IP. If LE knocks at Reddit’s door with a warrant, they will give them your IP, with which they go to the ISP to get your name.

        they’re an underwater welder from a specific small town and they have three sons

        You would be suprised of how much less info than that is needed to ID a person. There are studies about ID’ing people via their favorites and last-watched lists on netflix.