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FOSS alternatives are out there for most software. I don't really care for pirating photoshop when GIMP is free.
You can't really kill P2P file sharing. If there is a need for creating a seed then someone will do it if the film/show is popular enough. Will probably be hosted through a DMCA non-compliant country.
Actually, many old movies and shows are available on P2P networks, but the lack of seeders renders them inaccessible.
It depends on the movie, but I agree people do need to keep seeding more for those older, niche films.
Even if there was a multinational effort to stop P2P file sharing I feel like other methods would just be adopted or become mainstream
Even then I still don't think you could stop it. Maybe put a dent in it by taking down sites that host them, but all that'll do really is push indexers onto .onion or i2p, or make it so you share the torrent files by word of mouth or matrix/telegram groups, or back to IRC.
A very good point. I had forgotten about I2P and I don't know a ton about how hosting an onion site works
You do you, but any way you slice it Gimp is inferior to PS except for cost. My shipmates and I use piracy to level that field. I'm all for FOSS for privacy, security, diversity, competition, and niche applications that have minimal profit potential. I'm still going to use the best tools available to me though be they FOSS or otherwise. Smell you later land-lubber.
Sure, I have no issues with someone cracking adobe photoshop. In my case, I'm not going to be doing any serious photoshopping, so GIMP and KdenLive are suitable alternatives for me, a hobbyist, that wants the minimum effort required to use the tool every now and again.