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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.

Based xkcd

And that's why Bandcamp exists. No DRM, whatever format you like and you support the artist.

I'd pay for it once to support the creators. Once and once only.

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.

Small note: iTunes doesn’t have DRM anymore (since 2009)

Apple Music (the subscription) has DRM though, but you should never have a collection on a subscription service, because it can go away at any time

I buy most of my music from Qobuz or Bandcamp. Perfectly DRM-free with lossless compression, and it's mine forever.

Libation is your friend.

Last time I bought audiobooks I got them from Downpour which included DRM-free downloads as either MP3 or M4B files, in addition to listening through the website or app. I believe Libro.fm may also offer this. Most of my ebooks are through Kobo and are DRM free as well.

Does depend in some cases on the publisher.

There are probably some teenagers pirating stuff right now who weren't even alive when this comic was drawn. I'm old.

Always knew xkcd is a bro

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!

When purchasing isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft.

Ok, what next?

I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can't read them anymore.

Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can't complain if one day they change the encryption

Buy CDs.

For DRM free audiobooks check out Libro.fm.

Here is my idea: Everyone makes a private key. When they buy a song they receive the file and a digital signature by the label saying they sold it to your ~~private~~public key. When you are caught with a bunch of songs, you have to prove ownership using your key. Tadaa provable ownership, no blockchain, You loose the file, but still have the signature? You can download it again and all is good.

EDIT: Of course, they would sign the public key, sorry.

The most recent book I pirated was What If? 2.

I buy CDs and rip them into lossless myself unless it's not available and then I'll sail

I tried, but I can't, since it's Creative Commons

Feel like it's too arduous to pirate music these days

edit: Thank you guys for all the suggestions

Now that the US is run by literal criminals, any moral objection to something here on the grounds that it's illegal has no weight whatsoever.

Should I swap Audible for Steam and start another flame war? Is there a poll widget on this thing?