Curious as to how many others do this, or if I am just crazy. Anyone else buy physical copies of games and movies and play/watch a pirated version to keep the original product sealed? Do you have a different method or do something similar?
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I’m ashamed to admit that I had never ever bought a movie, a music album, a game or anything similar.
I sometimes buy a physical book but end up pirating a copy to my ereader so I can read in bed easier and use the dyslexic font. Makes me a bit sad that the books don’t get those creases in the spine from being read. Just looks like I own a bunch of books I didn’t read
I download comics/manga then buy paper version to support author. I wish every authors would have patreon, PayPal or else so I can give a bit more to author directly as they are getting crushed by editors.
I pirated games and movies I had bought when I was too lazy to fetch the discs.
i´ve pirated the ebook version of physical books I´ve already owned. i also down music from albums I also owned because I was too lazy to burn the CDs. i also emulated 3ds games so I could played them on my PC while transferring my safe files there to keep playing the game where I was left off
Why not? It is legal in some countries(or all?), to “reclaim” a digital copy if you own the original. Who would jugde you?
Yes. I do this with switch games, in 10-15 years time those games will still be worth what I paid, if not more. I have some collectors editions and limited runs that are already worth 3-4x what I paid for them
Unless they are the same quality as 3DS cartridges and just die without any interaction.
I did this with comics. Buy the singles to keep prestine, and purchase the paperbacks to read.
