Piracy

Piracy is the sharing of information with all your pals, and is obviously the right thing to do in every free society. It was invented by a bunch of basement dwellers about the time of the invention of the interwebz. Piracy has rose to prominence and is used primarily by everybody except dumbass fucktard 13 year old girls.

The hell I wouldn't!

Fuck the RIAA!

It's kind of like that.

Pirated Material

Commonly pirated material includes

• Furry porn... Yeah.
• Whatever teenage girls listen to.
• Television shows, because seriously, is season 6 of the office really worth $60?
• Uber k00l outdated counter strike hax, because srsly... who doesn't want to brag at school that you can hack.
• Every anime movie ever made.
• Pr0n, cause pirates don't like to pay for theirs.
• Movies. Now you can watch PG-13 movies without your mom finding out, even though you're probably 30 and still live with her.

Ways to pirate

• Lolwire (V&) is usually used by teenage girls who obviously want free music and movies.
• Use a BitTorrent client to download files. Some argue that qBittorrent is the best program for doing so.
• Some shitty download site that tries to get you to buy premium, but all the users are pirates so they don't make business sense (e.g., megaupload (Pwned by The man) Rapidshare), and whatever you find on free warez sites.

How pirating works

1. Find source (e.g., program, website)
2. Download
3. ????
4. Profit!

How to stop people from internet pirating

1. Be a Jew
2. Hire a lawyer
3. Use said lawyer to file a lawsuit
4. ????
5. (don't) profit!

Counter-Piracy operations

Successful counter-piracy

• The US feds have taken down Planet Moviez.
• Limewire. Sued for millions of dollars.

Unsuccessful counter-piracy

• The awesome mininova replacement, The Pirate Bay, beats down lawyers with large metal rods. (TPB legal threats)
• Oh and every single existing pirate-run website on the web

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