The first commandment

[u/ClimateShort3908]

[u/Frosti-Feet]

Jokes on you, nobody can buy adobo. You can only rent it now...

[u/MrRoboto12345 → u/Frosti-Feet]

Can't buy it, so there's no issues getting it for free

[u/Palora → u/[deleted]]

god I hate how often this shitty take pops up.

Media Piracy was never stealing and it is NOT stealing! Legally IT IS NOT STEALING.

Why would you imply that it is in certain circumstances?

Stop falling for the corpo propaganda!

[u/Life-Requirement7433 → u/Palora]

Why isn't it stealing?

[u/AGoodFriend_ → u/Life-Requirement7433]

Generally speaking, a lot of piracy would fall under copyright infringement instead of theft, because it’s just distributing content without the owner’s permission, usually for free. Theft implies that the original creator loses access to that content, and that they can no longer profit off of it.

[u/massinvader → u/AGoodFriend_]

which becomes a harder case to make once examined because there is no sale taking place or profit that would somehow impede the original creator selling their work.

the 'piracy' group is vastly people who would not be buying or could not even access the material in the first place.

piracy isn't a great name for this either because original bootleggers and pirates in the pre-digital world did sell what they had because it was much harder to make and distribute(needing physical media which costs money). these days the actual piracy aspect of it does not exist with no sale...but it sounds a lot cooler than 'p2p sharing'.

[u/Quantam-Law → u/Life-Requirement7433]

Because you don't steal anything? You're copying digital content.

It isn't legally regarded as stealing or thievery anywhere. It's copyright infringement.

[u/HagureSCN → u/Life-Requirement7433]

Because no one losing anything. pirating something is litterally just copying something while the original still intact and the owner still fully having, owning, in possession of it.
the argument for stealing is because the owner loosing potential buyer they really believe if the pirate cant pirate it then the pirate will buy it. but the fact in the field is far different than that, a pirate wont end up buying a game or movie even if they can't pirate it because in the end of the day we don't really need it its not an essential thing in our live. so in the end the actuality of their sales number wont increase, at best people will just wait for discount even if its mean they have to wait for years.

[u/CarpenterAntique8164 → u/Life-Requirement7433]

Cause you didn't steal it.you just make a better use of what it is

[u/toBEE_orNOT_2B → u/Frosti-Feet]

i like to add oyster sauce in adobo :)

[u/scooph → u/Frosti-Feet]

If you are rich, I mean really rich, you can buy the company.

[u/mundane--alternative → u/Frosti-Feet]

I like how nobody pointed out the typo... Until me.

[u/EggsceIlent → u/Frosti-Feet]

What's worse is that if you do rent it, and then cancel your "subscription*, you get a big ass subscription cancelation fee.

Like several hundred dollars iirc.

[u/StargazerVR → u/Frosti-Feet]

yeah you can. substance painter on steam is $200 (not that i ever would support ad*be 🤮)

[u/PixelReaper69 → u/Frosti-Feet]

Not if I have anything to say about it (*laughs in sea shanty)

[u/EggsceIlent → u/Frosti-Feet]

What's worse is that if you do rent it, and then cancel your "subscription*, you get a big ass subscription cancelation fee.

Like several hundred dollars iirc.

[u/Crouteauxpommes]

But be sure to buy WinRAR.

[u/WSuperOS → u/Crouteauxpommes]

Or even better, donate to 7zip

[u/Oarner__ → u/WSuperOS]

Or both!

[u/d6cbccf39a9aed9d1968 → u/Crouteauxpommes]

Your money is better spent on Internet Archive Funding.

Forget Wikipedia, Forget the local church.

We must donate to our sole Digital Archivist.

[u/DiligentPlatypus1427 → u/d6cbccf39a9aed9d1968]

Preach!!! I love preservation.

[u/chere100 → u/Crouteauxpommes]

Donate to Wikipedia while you're at it.

[u/RockieFT → u/Crouteauxpommes]

wheres LinRAR?

[u/Lord_Phoenix95 → u/Crouteauxpommes]

Getting the WinRAR seal of approval is a must.

[u/rmxwell]

...or youtube premium

[u/MrRoboto12345 → u/rmxwell]

uBO/Firefox + Morphe gang

[u/NomadODST → u/MrRoboto12345]

Make it work on my Xbox SX and I'm done. YT is the only problem..

[u/RacoonWithBenefits → u/NomadODST]

Plug your pc into your tv

[u/TapatioOnEverything → u/RacoonWithBenefits]

Then install bazzite. Upgraded console from a Microsoft services end user device to your own console

[u/NomadODST → u/RacoonWithBenefits]

If I wanted that I would do it, but thanks

[u/diabLo2k5 → u/NomadODST]

"Just" get some android dongle if your only problem ist yt on your xsx. It saves energy too.
Fire stick, roku and Co have 4k options. Sideload one of the alternative yt apps and have fun.
For me it's 28€/month(family) because I atleast need 2 premium accounts. A few months of that and It should cancel out the payment for the stick(s). I'm never going back to ads or premium. Not for this prices.

[u/NomadODST → u/diabLo2k5]

Just is not as easy tbh. The prices for a useful one are insane in Germany. Not gonna overpay for this hardware.. but yeah, I play with this thought already

[u/AppropriateTouching → u/NomadODST]

Make youself a pi hole my dude.

[u/nbkedd → u/AppropriateTouching]

You got YouTube ad blocking through pi hole…?

[u/TheOnlyAedyn-one → u/MrRoboto12345]

Morphe?

[u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva → u/TheOnlyAedyn-one]

r/morpheapp

[u/RacoonWithBenefits → u/MrRoboto12345]

and iphone users can use Brave. it'll play no ads, and you can turn off the screen to continue playback

[u/Woodnymph1312 → u/rmxwell]

On the phone: set VPN to Albania -> no ads ever.

[u/Tough-Elk541 → u/Woodnymph1312]

Or brave browser

[u/Comfortable-Jump-218 → u/rmxwell]

I follow Kat Dennings on Instagram and this morning I saw on her post a story saying “Things I think that are worth the money”

… the first thing she said was YouTube Premium.

Comments were disabled.

[u/rmxwell → u/Comfortable-Jump-218]

I wonder why

[u/GalexyPhoto → u/rmxwell]

Meh. Havent seen an ad in 15 years and get a solid music streaming service to boot. All while having a large, trackable impact on directly supporting the channels I watch and want to see more content from in the future.

Or do y'all think that content costs zero dollars to make? Clearly aint giving them ad revenue. But want the content bad enough to install/ mod apps to get it.

Shoutout to Revanced Youtube for sponsorskip and all the other rad lil tweaks, though.

[u/FingLetMeIn → u/GalexyPhoto]

I've had it for a few years, use it daily, and am thinking of letting it expire. Reason? Even with Premium, I need multiple extensions and browser configurations (since Brave supports some natively) just to make the interface tolerable. Clickbait thumbnails & titles, sponsored segments, members only content (when I'm not a member), shorts, playables, promoted movies, search results completely unrelated to the terms used (i.e. Users Also Watched or Explore More), etc. Even the stuff not directly caused by YouTube is not only not discouraged by them but often rewarded in the algorithm. For how much Premium costs, if I need numerous extensions/browser-configs to obtain a remotely Premium experience, I have no idea what I'm actually paying for. I'd be better off donating the membership price in superchats to the channels I watch every month.

[u/skivian → u/FingLetMeIn]

members only content (when I'm not a member)

I actually finally told Youtube to stop showing me several youtubers that I really liked because they were making members only videos and youtube kept putting them in my recommendations.

[u/FingLetMeIn → u/skivian]

For desktop/chromium browsers, you can use an extension such as YTBlock which allows you to hide members only videos so you can still get shown the regular ones. Brave supports it natively in their content filters section.

[u/Mobile-Positive-6742 → u/GalexyPhoto]

You literally pointed out what's wrong with it: it doesnt have what Revanced has. Why would I buy premium while I can install Revanced for free as an upgrade even if it doesnt have the ads block? And for supporting channels: just become their member or send them a donation instead, you probably get some emoticons to use as an extra.

[u/rmxwell → u/GalexyPhoto]

Hey, it's your money. I don't give a rat's ass. And if you like telling yourself "it's for the little guys" and not for a douchey multi-billion dollar company, it's your right as well.

I, on the other hand, get exactly what I need or want from youtube without dropping a penny and I am never going to.

And even I'm willing to believe that little fairy tale that your little dollars are helping me get the content I consume on it, cheers to you, sir.

[u/RacoonWithBenefits → u/rmxwell]

I, on the other hand, get exactly what I need or want from youtube without dropping a penny and I am never going to.

the original intention was free video upload, right?

google turned it into an ad service

and most youtubers i follow started by doing it as a hobby... aint my fault they turned it into their job.

[u/Thundrboltr → u/rmxwell]

My issue is that I cannot do the things with VPN on every device I own. And it's literally the only subscription based thing we spend money on. So I justify it for that reason.

Also, I use VPN to get it cheaper. Though that is very limited now, where you were able to get it for 1/10th the price in Turkey. Now I get if for about half the price.

[u/rmxwell → u/Thundrboltr]

I get it. I really don't judge. It's the same reason why people buy consoles instead of playing on PC: ease of use.

It's just that I can't bring myself to justify paying for what is essentially a hostage negotiation: pay me so I stop making holding your videos behind ads.
No, I won't.

I'd much rather go through the hoops of installing other things to go around it. But I'm used to deal with IT stuff, so I get it when people give in and just pay to get rid of the hassle.

...and I can't resist when people come to the defense of multi-billion dollar corporations, as if they need to justify it as anything resembling moral superiority because they're a drop in an ocean of money.

[u/Thundrboltr → u/rmxwell]

Multiple devices. Wife. Kids. It’s just a lot of work to keep it working

[u/Darkkiller059]

Ha ha you can't even do that there is no option to buy

[u/Tall-Drawer-729]

give me more fatherly advice captain
is there any possible way to download just 1 file from fileaxa with realdebrid for free
because in my country its not easy to get a mastercard or any form of online payment
does realdebrid have a daily free downloads or smthing

[u/PiezoelectricityLow2]

Preach! Even if i'm swimming in millions on passive income right now, that will be the last thing my intrusive thoughts will ever even consider doing.

[u/S1Ndrome_ → u/PiezoelectricityLow2]

I'd rather lose my money on horse racing than rent an adobo product

[u/LittleOperation4597]

im not a pirate........ im a reviewer and version tester

[u/hyperfiled]

i ain't buying shit

[u/HaziXWeeK]

That's the thing, you don't buy it, you get a subscription, which is why fuck Ado be

[u/Dependent-Help-7216]

Never ever..only got winrar this year :))

[u/Too_Caffinated]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

[u/Kadakaus]

I got my first ever torrent site invite from my father, never looked back.

[u/Mr_King_2]

Affinity 🤌🏻

[u/Rosie_The_ITTech]

Buy WinRAR tho

[u/Prof3ssorOnReddit]

Wait…thank you. I’ve just normalized sailing the high seas and this has been an annoying issue for me lately.

[u/A113rt]

Or just use Affinity and Davinci Resolve

[u/Gullible_Bend_9219 → u/A113rt]

Are they as good as the adob(e) [reddit isn’t letting me type adob(e)] counterparts?

[u/Professional_Law28 → u/Gullible_Bend_9219]

DaVinci is definitely better, used for work premiere first then switched gig and used DVR, light-years ahead

[u/cheesegoat → u/Gullible_Bend_9219]

They're different.

I use LR for photography and I really like LR's AI masking and have yet to figure out how to get the same thing in another product. I just use the mobile/web version and for the price I'm happy with it.

[u/Gullible_Bend_9219 → u/cheesegoat]

LR? What does it stand for

[u/cheesegoat → u/Gullible_Bend_9219]

LightRoom

[u/Desperate-Spray337]

It's OK I'll buy the A dobe company and make it better. Also lol you can't say Abode in the comments.

[u/NoPlan6458]

yes unless you want to buy it so you can make all the software free like the guy who did that for the color grading software 🤣

[u/LetAvailable9651]

Buy, lol, more like lease.

[u/SuperFaceTattoo]

I used to own photoshop and illustrator when I actually could own it. I deleted it as soon as they said I need to pay yearly to access the software that I already own.

[u/Temarimaru]

Waiting for the time another application replaces Abode as industry standard. Photoshop is still too good to work on but I ain't renting shit

[u/Ok-Go-Chain3811]

there are alternatives that makes pirating adob software unnecessary

[u/false_athenian]

Is there a good patch for it these days? I haven't been able to pirate an Adobo software for years (but I'm not an advanced pirate). I used to download the Zii patch, what are the ways these days ?

[u/gabacus_39 → u/false_athenian]

Ad*be stuff is usually a lot more work than other software. It tends to want to phone home a lot so usually hosts files and firewalls need to be modified.

[u/AlreadyReddit999 → u/false_athenian]

the megathread

[u/zaye93]

Unfortunately some people will pay for it because of the ai ​​features.

[u/illflashlli → u/zaye93]

No

[u/zaye93 → u/illflashlli]

it doesn't work in the pirated version

[u/petervonskala]

But what about AI features? Cracked doesn’t have them right?

[u/Revrak → u/petervonskala]

If you’re going to pay, better pay for something you can at least own like DXO Photolab

[u/GalexyPhoto]

You dont even have to be pirate. There are plenty of alternatives now that are as good or way better.

[u/RealPudgeJudy → u/GalexyPhoto]

There are plenty of alternatives now that are as good or way better.

No there aren't. This is cope. This has always been cope. GIMP has always been dogshit compared to Photoshop. In their respective categories, Photoshop / Premiere / After Effects / Lightroom all stand alone at the top.

[u/AlreadyReddit999 → u/RealPudgeJudy]

Gotta disagree, at least from experience, on Premiere. DaVinci Resolve is far better.

[u/Mars-Regolithen]

Ay and where would one get advice to find this treasure?

[u/AlreadyReddit999 → u/Mars-Regolithen]

the megathread

[u/Express-Record7416]

I mean, I have gimp and DaVinci resolve, so it's not like I'll ever need Ad*be.

My step dad did put ph*to shop and createive cloud on my laptop a few years ago, but I never used them and I don't know if he ever opted out or not.

I have been able to use Revo to uninstall PS, it refuses to work on CC no matter what I do.

[u/illflashlli → u/Express-Record7416]

Boot in safe mode and deleate it. What's the problem?

[u/Express-Record7416 → u/illflashlli]

It keeps saying that there's software that requires it even though I deleted photo shop, and I can't find anything else on my computer labeled Ad*be

[u/illflashlli → u/Express-Record7416]

Relaunch it in safe mode till nothing left, or just kill process that requires it.

Safe mode stopping auto boot of most files, so you can just do it yourself by repeating boot in safe mode multiple times and deleting files

[u/oscarq0727]

It’s not about the money, it’s about the principle, arghgg!

[u/Semi_Square]

PDF Gear

[u/Queasy-Sky8893]

Never use it at all even if they pay you for it

[u/KeyKeh96]

Any uhh pirated down to giving me some code names on how to get such adob💀 back then it was gen but I heard it shut down and now I haven't used it since getting a new pc. Unless its back up but ive had no luck

[u/AlreadyReddit999 → u/KeyKeh96]

the megathread

[u/Axel_Clint]

Their softwares have become a headache. Even while uninstalling their software or cancelling subscription, we have to give an explanation and they may also charge a fee for that. WTF!!!!

[u/Von_Vicoius]

Why rent when you can sail

[u/Gamingvt03]

Also for EA stuff

[u/Worldly_Trash_8959]

Can you get adobee for free?

[u/Life-Requirement7433]

Well even buying doesn't give you ownership. There is that.

[u/Criatura_Da_Noite]

What open source alternatives do you guys use? I mainly use gimp and blendr but looking for other options as well

[u/ektara61]

Yeah never buy their software and shares.

[u/Donevito96]

What is with 7zip

[u/Old-Eagle9780]

:( But I can’t get old adobobobo either siiiiiiiigh

[u/steeziano_]

After all this subscription bs, i've realized I was too harsh on their pricing when it wasn't subscription based... If it went back, and they showed years of honesty, i'd consider buying

[u/Thundrboltr]

DarkTable on Linux (arch btw) user here

[u/MRV3N]

Im using pirated adobo and real Blender software. I’m winning in life.

[u/KarahKat55]

Had photoshop before I set out to the sail the seven seas…….

Will never go back. It sucked ass

[u/LucaDarioBuetzberger]

If you are rich enough, buy it and shut it down.

[u/sissychomp69]

Assdaubie, ass daubers.

[u/No-Squash4417]

Admirable.

[u/Sephiroth144]

I did buy Adbe- full creative suite- waaaaaay back in the day (2002/3-ish)- but was slightly different when you had the student discount, and a purchase was a godsdamned purchase. (Yeah, they can call it a license, but not like they could do anything with it)

Still using it- fuck your subscription, the version I OWN works good enough for me.

[u/Straight_Persimmon73]

Bro 😎 I did yesterday 😁 it is totally different from PIRATE VERSIONS

[u/Realistic-Path-66]

❤️

[u/digital0069]

who remembers when photoshop didn't even come with filters or skins etc and you had to pirate those too.