How serious is product piracy in your country?

[Incal]

Same here, except I haven't played games for 10+ years and 95% of the software I need for work is either open source or has free analogues. Windows (if it needed at all) is traditionally pirated here. These 5% of irreplaceable proprietary software are usually programs for unlocking the bootloader of smartphones or routers (it's my fetish to be untied from a vendor).

Ahhhhh I forgot about software. Yeah, nobody has real Windows here, it's all pirated. The only exception are big companies and such but the average person got not a single original software program. We have lots of markets about that too.

[Östsvensk]

They are pretty harsh on it here.

It has happened that people got fines from the movie companies for torrenting. Traitorous ISPs collaborate with them and hand out customers IP numbers to them. That's why you are strongly adviced to use a VPN when you torrent. There is one ISP, Bahnhof, that specialises in privacy and refuses to hand out IPs and information.

And you can forget about selling pirated material openly.

Pirating isn't very common anymore though since streaming services came (Spotify, Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, etc).

Same here, except I haven't played games for 10+ years and 95% of the software I need for work is either open source or has free analogues. Windows (if it needed at all) is traditionally pirated here. These 5% of irreplaceable proprietary software are usually programs for unlocking the bootloader of smartphones or routers (it's my fetish to be untied from a vendor).
The son is already entering the age of exploring the PC, and the question of games can't be avoided soon.

There is no more piracy, there is the concept of "trophy".

Now that technology and software has become a field of political confrontation, I believe that legally purchased industrial machines, medical equipment, cars, etc. should also be hacked and cut off from communication with the "home server" until our own counterparts appear.

Nobody pays for Windows voluntarily here. Microsoft blackmails you into buying it by including it with the computer you are about to buy.

[Seya]

They are pretty harsh on it here.

It has happened that people got fines from the movie companies for torrenting. Traitorous ISPs collaborate with them and hand out customers IP numbers to them. That's why you are strongly adviced to use a VPN when you torrent. There is one ISP, Bahnhof, that specialises in privacy and refuses to hand out IPs and information.

And you can forget about selling pirated material openly.

Pirating isn't very common anymore though since streaming services came (Spotify, Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, etc).



Nobody pays for Windows voluntarily here. Microsoft blackmails you into buying it by including it with the computer you are about to buy.

All of what you just said it's exactly the same over here.

[Duke]

Nobody pays for Windows voluntarily here. Microsoft blackmails you into buying it by including it with the computer you are about to buy.

You can always go Linux, its even creation of nordic man

[Östsvensk]

You can always go Linux, its even creation of nordic man

Technically, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel. The Linux (GNU) operating system was created by Richard Stallman.

Including Windows with PCs is how Microsoft came to dominate the computer market. It began when they secured a deal with IBM to bundle computers with MS-DOS. It has been a tradition to bundle PCs with Microsoft's OS ever since.

[Aspirin]

Piracy is quite common, you can download freely anything you want, and nothing will happen to you. But today many local people buy products and are subscribed to many streaming and music services like Netflix and Spotify, same for games, many buy them online.

[Incal]

All of what you just said it's exactly the same over here.

In Romania???????

Piracy is quite common, you can download freely anything you want, and nothing will happen to you. But today many local people buy products and are subscribed to many streaming and music services like Netflix and Spotify, same for games, many buy them online.

That's true. Almost everybody here got Netflix (including myself) and Spotify but then again they are pretty cheap.

[Damião de Góis]

Game piracy decreased a lot with the creation of Steam. As for movies, series i think piracy is still high. As for music i think it decreased a lot too.

[Petalpusher]

Ironically i get tv series and movies from torrent (rip rarbg) for convenience more than anything. Sick of having to deal with a dozen of services and broken smart tv apps on different sets. Much easier to get everything where you can browse easily like a PC then stream around, often you get better quality rips. I'm even subscribed to netflix and few others yet still most of the time just download directly a season or a particular episode. The day i don't have to check what tv show is tied to whichever network maybe i ll change my mind.

Im more onboard with the music services, everything is centralized, and just works conveniently with my Tidal subscription.

I never cared about the legal aspect, i think there is a global tax anyway in France for piracy but probably not where i reside.

[Duke]

Technically, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel. The Linux (GNU) operating system was created by Richard Stallman.

Including Windows with PCs is how Microsoft came to dominate the computer market. It began when they secured a deal with IBM to bundle computers with MS-DOS. It has been a tradition to bundle PCs with Microsoft's OS ever since.

Yeah i know, I am avid Linux user, I also have Chromebook, and Windows machine.
Also have NomadBSD on a stick.

Only thing missing is iOS