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What things do you refuse to pirate? (lemm.ee)
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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Apps. I prefer foss apps. I donate, report, contribute and spread the word.

Even if I would pirate an app it wouldn't become open source. I couldn't contribute. I couldn't report bugs, suggest ideas, fork and apply my own stuff.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    We've had a no piracy rule over in the Android subs/communities for years and the funny thing is, by time we ever got to someone trying to post a pirated APK the community themselves tore them a new arsehole.

    Easiest rule to enforce when the community will absolutely hiss at you. Love em.

    edit: a fun talking point I suppose is YouTube, and its app. We got a lot of people arguing that Newpipe 'was piracy' and I even had many debates with other members/mods about is it, or isn't it piracy?

    My view it's a website that you can parse even with other tools like yt-dl, and if Youtube.com wanted to stop use of Newpipe / Revanced whatever they could in the blink of an eye.

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