Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Both actually, there are certain softwares like photoshop, ms office suite,idm etc. that I pirate. I try to use foss for almost everything else.

FOSS all the way. I don't want to be dependent on proprietary software as much as possible.

Mostly FOSS these days. There's just so many options now. There's a few things I have from the old days as I've updated from Windows 7 through 10 over the years.

If kdenlive was even in the same ballpark of usability as Premiere maybe, but so far it's not even in the same country.

i have slowly bought games i started playing 20+ years ago on steam for a few dollars each on sale. i largely use FOSS i still pirate windows i don't play AAA games the new games i play are largely free/crossplay/splitscreen

FOSS. Not everywhere though. I still use windows and still use SwiftKey. I'm just not adept enough for Linux. I tried it. SwiftKey will be switched eventually.

usually use FOSS, it has been long since I pirated software

I always search for a foss alternative first when it comes to software games are a fairgame for piracy tho unless they are indie

I don't trust any proprietary software. I don't like putting a lot of work into something only to have the rug pulled out from under me by an arbitrary change from the dev. Open source means I can always keep using the software, even if it means I have to push code myself.

When I was a student I had almost everything pirated, because of the lack of money and unreasonable pricing. Back then it was easy because in most cases I knew someone who knew someone who already had pirated the program.

Meanwhile I switched for alternatives (for instance I used to have Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, now I have purchased Affinity Photo and Designer) as the trend leads into the direction of subscribed software (software-as-a-service). I prefer software to be installed locally and not dependent of a stable internet connection. Also, I have no problem with paying for proprietary software, given it is priced reasonably.

Most of the time FOSS, but things like After Effects that already has a huge community or plugins or things that make it super easy to use, then I just pirate it.
Yes, I know there are alternatives, but most of the time the curve to learn how to achieve the same thing is much more steep or it lacks the free plugins/presets that make it simple for a normal home user that might use it every now and then to create a shitpost or something.

Used to pirate apps all the time but I started getting into Linux and learn more about privacy. Now i just look for foss alternatives and have stopped pirating apps altogether.

I used to pirate everything. But, I have never used/installed any commercial software since I jumped onto the FOSS bandwagon since at least 2010. I love the freedom! I even support the developers when I can.

Other than Windows I guess everything I use is Foss with only few free stuff (like visual studio). And it's a lot. Many different Software.

I mostly pirate games and when I play 10 - 20 hours and like the game, I buy them. Exceptions are when it's EA, because fuck EA and their greedy bullshit. I'd rather burn €10,- than to give it to EA

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If the Foss alternative dose everything I want use that

If not I pirate

I usually use FOSS when I can. Commercial software simply isn't necessary for most tasks, and you take the least amount of risk if you use the least amount of pirated software possible.

I only really need Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro for most of my needs. Other software is either FOSS or Free

MS Office and Windows are activated using MAS and m0nkrus (may he be blessed) provides my Adobe software.

I don't pirate software anymore, the risks aren't worth it to me

The problem is, Bitwig is not Free Software, and on top of it it costs quite a lot of money, and I left my soundcard in Sweden when I moved to Korea ^^.

I think I'll check out Ardour more thorowly. Now with Pipewire it should wor more hasslefree compared to when I had to switch between Jack and Pulse Audio manually all the time.

Always FLOSS I even stopped my hobby of producing music because Ardour was just not good enough for that.

The only program I have considered pirating in the last few years has been Topaz Gigapixel AI. I then realized that I could wait as there will likely be open-source alternatives available in the future. Upscaling old videos is not a priority for me.

I use FOSS as much as possible over pirating. It's generally just easier, and if I want to count on something existing years later FOSS is the way.

But every now and then, yar har fiddle dee dee.