I don't get devs who root/jail break their devices to pirate software I know there are other reasons to jailbreak /root but come on!

I bet if in reality thousands of people were pirating your software you'd be pissed.

For what it's worth, I don't pirate apps. I root to use Cyanogenmod and use AdAway.

@drRoss its fine to mod for reasons like that, I used to pirate stuff but now I think how would I feel if someone was pirating my hard work. It's weird getting old

@philcr Sadly it's the way of the world. I have friends that still pirate music, but Spotify is a tenner a month. It's madness when they can more than afford it, and the time spent searching for torrents is time wasted. Spotify is instant.

Data backup? No? And even if, it's my machine! If I can gladly pirate on every other OS, I will change my device with android/iOS, so that I can pirate on them too. If I will is only a matter of my moral decisions.

Especially if there exists blocking of the devices from the other side such as carrier locks. You know, there are two sides of a coin. The reasons for pirating emerge from stupid decisions of developers or sellers.

There'll always be people who will pirate paid stuff, there always were pirates. Fighting them is stupid. Work _with_ them! Give them not "a reason", but THE reasons to buy your stuff. And they will come, don't you worry.

Example: DVDs ~15+€/piece, now 5€/piece. Netflix with HBO tv series. Nowadays those are consumable goods.

People will come if you are reasonable. You can't build monopoly or set minimal price barrier on selling plain rolls. You're an idiot if you think so and I hope your business dies quickly and painfully. =[^_^]=

@KeyWeeUsr I think you miss my point.

I don't understand why in the modern day and age where Netflix is £6 Spotify is £10, and most apps are inexpensive why people feel the need to pirate, as you suggest suppliers can no longer have monopolies on stuff and have worked to reduce the reasons to pirate. I just think it's lame to pirate.

I understand the other reasons such as backup.

@philcr Because free is free. It just sounds nice and is especially nice too if a country has high taxes.

If I don't have money and am clever, it doesn't mean I won't do bad. That's all what it's about - price. Imagine let's say Adobe products for 10€. No monthly, yearly, no. 10€, done. Adobe would instantly won the market of basically any professional software they develop. Add support for Linux and bam, monopoly. Recently they even released old Photoshop and Acrobat keys & installers.

Making nice things available even to poor is what makes pirates disappear. Pirates mostly _are_ poor in the meaning that they don't have spare hundreds of € to throw away just to play with stuff.

@KeyWeeUsr fair point

I don't mind paying for apps at all but only if they're open source. Otherwise fuck that. (Personal opinion)

... You don't need to root to pirate on Android. Not even close. I don't pirate on mobile, I root for quality of life features that aren't natively available.

Don't paint us all with the same brush.

@alwaysmpe I wasn't painting anyone with any brush as such, merely commenting that there are a lot of people who root/jailbreak just to pirate.

I bought a licence to sublime to support developers I could just as easily have found a crack on the internet.

It's not so much about the root/ jailbreak it's more about piracy and giving back to the development world we get fucked over enough without doing it to each other

@philcr because a lot of the people who pirate are young kids without a job yet. With parents who don't know what they want so they don't get it for them because it's the internet. That's my 2cents growing up with the internet

Maybe they're struggling like me and can't afford shit other people get for free anyway. People will pirate my stuff regardless so what does it matter?