Why “pirated” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Lol the vast majority of pirates are not paying for anything. Maybe a very wealthy and ethical person is fine paying for something after they've sampled the pirated version but…
by wildzzz · Oct 31, 2026
These people tend to outgrow that tho. I def would have pirated books as a youth as it’d save me a trip to the library. Now i’m old and have money, I would never pirate a book a…
by cyberpunk · Oct 31, 2026
Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'
by WesleyGrant782 · Oct 31, 2026 · 87 points
I remember when I was ~14 at a private day school with a 1:1 laptop program in the early 00s, we were on AD. There was essentially one mac user in the IT department and the rest…
by sam0x17 · Oct 31, 2026
Wow it's almost like they're not taxing pirated music at all and are taxing gigabytes. I suppose France is more like a farm of users and they're not entitled to their natural re…
by neuroelectron · Oct 31, 2026
> Some EU countries even charge you a copyright tax when you buy a smartphone per gigabyte because they just assume that you'll fill every gigabyte with pirated music. I live in…
by haunter · Oct 31, 2026
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