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  • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
    3 Jun 2025, 09:09

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    cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
    wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 20:53 last edited by
    #53

    There's a lot of stuff that you can't even buy now.

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    • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      huquad@lemmy.ml
      wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 21:29 last edited by
      #54

      This was tricky, but I estimate about $3.50

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      • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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        palarith@aussie.zone
        wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 21:53 last edited by
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        How would you calculate tv shows that have being broadcasted

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        • P palarith@aussie.zone
          3 Jun 2025, 21:53

          How would you calculate tv shows that have being broadcasted

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          akasazh@feddit.nl
          wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 23:03 last edited by
          #56

          Just go for a averaged percentage of the broadcasting licence. Just average out all hours of tv you watched in your lifetime and the broadcasting fees per year (accounting for price change).

          I'll wait...

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          • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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            antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 23:27 last edited by
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            I've pirated books that are so rare their used copies cost hundreds of euros. Also there are the English academic publications, which have insane prices even by default, and boy do I love hoarding them. In general, I've pirated so much I have no idea how I'd even go about estimating the theoretical total cost.

            OTOH I've also recently been thinking about how much money I have spent on legally obtaining media, going to concerts and film screenings and plays and exhibitions and everything else... Should be solidly in the four-digit area.

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            • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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              bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
              wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 01:14 last edited by
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              Very little. I've always wanted to be paid for the work I do so I have always paid others for the work they have done for me. If I couldn't afford to pay for it, I didn't steal it instead.

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              • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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                grass@sh.itjust.works
                wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 01:37 last edited by grass@sh.itjust.works 6 Mar 2025, 21:38
                #59

                everything up to 2006 was roughly 70K cad including stuff I never used, duplicates only counted if they were either games for different system/movies from different phys. media/given to friends. value of dollar was roughly accounted for as if it was bought when new.

                A bunch of friends and I stopped pirating stuff when we started working and had no time for entertainment and we tallied everything up and checked each other's calculations and voted on if certain items could be included, etc., as a closure/end of an era thing. I was second place and top of our group was like 130K

                current bounty is probably just whatever mcu films are on bluray and maybe 6 bluray volumes of whatever anime weren't on the netflix or amazon I'm mooching. Maybe like 8 switch games but I only played 2 and wiped it when I sold the switch, and 3 pc games but I only played 1 but I'll probably just go through my steam backlog if I ever have gaming time again in my life.

                edit: I guess also some netflix shows while I wasn't mooching an account and some apple shows but no idea how to account for that.

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                • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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                  serenesadie@lemmy.myserv.one
                  wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 02:50 last edited by
                  #60

                  Probably not that much. I ended up buying most of the games I pirated anyway. For me, it was because of sheer poverty.

                  These days, I don't care enough about games to bother anymore.

                  Or, I own the media already, and just want an easy-ready version that I can video edit without having to fuss over decoders and crap.

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                  • M mnemonicbump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                    3 Jun 2025, 20:38

                    $0. I would not have any it if I didn't pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.

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                    aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                    wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 07:37 last edited by
                    #61

                    this is exactly why their numbers for 'lost revenue' is a load of shit.. Most of us would be the same. If we couldn't pirate, we just wouldn't watch their shit.

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                    • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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                      icastfist@programming.dev
                      wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 12:38 last edited by
                      #62

                      Does a WoW subscription count? I've played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would've been some 20+ months of sub.

                      It's tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don't remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don't own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.

                      Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that'll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that's 20k.

                      There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn't exist as available for purchase, so "at original price" I guess it'd be zero.

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                      • T tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                        3 Jun 2025, 15:20

                        Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?

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                        baduhai@sopuli.xyz
                        wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 15:28 last edited by
                        #63

                        If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody heard or saw it, did really fall?

                        If you pirated media, but never saw it, did you really pirate it?

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                          tired_board_of_wood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                          wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 19:43 last edited by
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                          Nice try, glowie

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                          • T tired_board_of_wood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                            4 Jun 2025, 19:43

                            Nice try, glowie

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                            throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
                            wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 20:18 last edited by
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                            Nice try, glowie

                            I wouldn't use that term, it has a... problematic history:

                            https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

                            Etymology

                            From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that "CIA [N-Slur] glow in the dark", implying that they are conspicuous. The term "glowie" would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

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                            • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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                              samus12345@sh.itjust.works
                              wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 20:34 last edited by
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                              Does it count if you barely watched/played it?

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                              • H huquad@lemmy.ml
                                3 Jun 2025, 21:29

                                This was tricky, but I estimate about $3.50

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                                geedubhayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                                wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 20:35 last edited by
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                                That's one lazy loch ness monsta.

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                                • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
                                  3 Jun 2025, 11:16

                                  Outdated image, these days we just remote into the FBI office, no FBI jacket needed.

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                                  walnutlum@lemmy.ml
                                  wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 00:57 last edited by
                                  #68

                                  Outdated image, everything goes through palantir now

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                                  • B baduhai@sopuli.xyz
                                    4 Jun 2025, 15:28

                                    If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody heard or saw it, did really fall?

                                    If you pirated media, but never saw it, did you really pirate it?

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                                    sebastrion@leminal.space
                                    wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 01:03 last edited by
                                    #69

                                    Looks like today is your cake day!
                                    Happy cake day, but... Is the cake real or not?

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                                    • S sebastrion@leminal.space
                                      5 Jun 2025, 01:03

                                      Looks like today is your cake day!
                                      Happy cake day, but... Is the cake real or not?

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                                      baduhai@sopuli.xyz
                                      wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 01:10 last edited by
                                      #70

                                      The cake is a lie!

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                                      • S samus12345@sh.itjust.works
                                        4 Jun 2025, 20:34

                                        Does it count if you barely watched/played it?

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                                        rivalarrival@lemmy.today
                                        wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 03:58 last edited by
                                        #71

                                        Way I see it, if I'm over 1:1, I'm owed more than I owe. You're welcome, and/or, where can I pick up my check?

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                                        • T throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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                                          coldwater@lemmy.ca
                                          wrote on 5 Jun 2025, 04:13 last edited by
                                          #72

                                          After a very intensive calculations session, I come up with at least 7$.

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