/jp/ - Otaku Culture

£0 because I wouldn't have bought anything anyway.

The janitor is dead, and our people are free.

Long live anarcho-/jp/.

Dunno. I just take and give nothing back. I'm a modern day Robin Hood.

Quite a lot. Given all the music I listen to, I'd say about $450 in music CDs.

When I have the money, I can finally start buying the CDs themselves and start building my collection. I miss the days of 1 cent CDs on ebay.

>>10507385
inb4 this thread is deleted by the janitors and 404s.

>>10507385

There's still janitors you stupid bitch.

>>10507395
I have a CD and vinyl collection but haven't added anything to it since around December since I just don't have the money to do so right now. I just like having physical copies of my music.

>>10507403
>>10507397
Get out JIDF(Janitor Internet Defense Force).

4 windows 7 keys, one 8 key. rest is free/freeware software
games, I don't play many so maybe 200$ if that?
music and anime probably 5k+
also >>10507378

lots because touhou STILL isn't on steam

>>10507406
Same here. I'd like to have copies of all of the doujin albums that I download, but the prices are outrageous. Last time I checked, Demetori's C83 release would cost me half a tank of gas. I'm not paying that for three songs!

The last thing I bought was Spore. It wouldn't let me play it because I had to do something online in order to run game files on the disc in my computer, and I didn't have an internet connection at the time.

Later I just downloaded a cracked version and it worked fine. I agree with >>10507406 though in that it's nice to have a physical copy of something. Similarly I've bought music albums and then pirated them, because I trust the pirates to know more about ripping and encoding than I do.

don't pirate you get virus! :D

>>10507442
I would love to buy doujin albums but have no way to. I only use Amazon and pay with gift cards whenever there's something I want online. I almost don't even buy anything in stores anymore since I buy so much more than just music there.

>>10507442
>Demetori's C83 release would cost me half a tank of gas.

Does Comiket work on the barter system now?

>>10507434
I hope touhou will never be on steam

a lot
some things i'd like to buy if i had a chance, but i don't want to feed the zog with my money

Games are the only things I don't pirate, at least not often. If it's a small single player game and I can find a download (which I usually can) then I'll pirate it. Multilayer games are different, but I don't play those a lot. All of my music is pirated though, aside from some vinyls of albums I love.

>>10507474
I'm of limited means, and I tend to translate expenditures into how much a purchase would subtract from my abilities to buy myself food or keep my car's gas tank above the red.

Realistically? Somewhere over 200 thousand maybe even more. I started with the swap disc on the ps2, but around the time the 360 and ps3 got modded, I had almost every game worth playing downloaded in some sort of fever dream where I would sometimes only play a game for a few hours before jumping to the next.

>>10507489
The best part of it was unlike most pirating which limits you to singleplayer and makes a lot of games useless, pirating on the 360 let you play everything online which made a decent amount of meh to ok games really fun.

millions of dollas
millions of dollas
millions of dollas

OP image made me laugh so hard I spit out my drink

I mostly pirate doujin music so I've probably saved thousands in import costs. I do own two physical doujin albums though

Also I haven't actually downloaded a Touhou, since I strictly buy physical copies of the official games instead. It's only right not to pirate ZUN's work in my opinion.

>>10507485
The last game I bought was some small mahjong game for dirt cheap on Amazon because I couldn't find a download for it. Other than that the last game I bought was so long ago that I can't even remember exactly when I bought it. It was Serious Sam: BFE when it first came out. The last game I downloaded was Borderlands 2 and good thing I didn't buy it because I didn't like it as much as the first one at all and it would have been a waste. The next game I plan on getting whenever it is released in the US Earth Defense Force 2025.

That's impossible to say, because only a small portion of what I pirate I would have bought in the first place, and I still buy some things.

I'd say maybe in the low hundreds.

Lets see...all those TTC lectures...games..computer/math books...VNs...Japanese learning stuff,out-the-ass adobe software,etc..oh I dunno...millions of dollars maybe.

I wouldn't have bought any of the DLC I've pirated because I don't buy DLC. None of the music either.

I would've bought Mirror's Edge. Dunno what else.

Letterboxd account : 500 movies watched
Lastfm : 200 different albums / 2000 singles
Games : 20 to 30
Uni Books : 100's, but i would have only bought 8 / 10

So, 500 x 5 + 200 x 10 + 3000 + 25 x 30 + 9 x 80

Around 8000euros, 10.000 $
Can't really say i saved that amount, i would have bought a lot less > lot less culture
So in a way im glad i was born in the right time to enjoy free entertainment, i don't think it'll stay that way in the future

>>10507373
Also, my account on what is now known as RuTracker will turn 7 y/o in a month. I think the Japs would likely have me executed.

>>10507373
Luna a shit

>>10507609
I'll cut you faglord

This really isn't that much stuff. It's several years worth of torrents.

>>10507617
k
I'll be waiting

>>10507618

>spice and wolf scans

whata FUG

i looked everywhere for those

share the load

Very nearly zero dollars. Most of what I've pirated is stuff I wouldn't have bought either way. In fact, it may have lost me money since it's exposed me to new interests.

>>10507618
Is that an advertisement in a BitTorrent client?

>>10507618
>Game of Thrones
You don't belong here.

>>10507624
those look like the light novels, you can get them off bakabt.
>>10507626
sadly yes, stay away from it, get qbittorrent.

I guess everybody in China and Iran just pirates all their shit

and sells it burned onto disc. And they're one of a great many countries that are like that.

I'm a software guy myself and even I view it as "well if the money isn't there, how would they even pay me? fuck it"

If anybody reeeeally wanted to stop piracy rather than sell DRM and nortons and legal services to other corporate queers, they'd just use stego to stick in randomized serial numbers. Or in software, use the same kind of nonsense they use to "obfuscate" code to sneak random serial numbers into the object code. Then you could call the cops on whoever cracked and shared their copy, no need to sue 1337 people for their narutos or whatever.

And everybody knows this already, people are just farting around bein' stupid as usual.

My income has increased by $0 since I started using the internet.
I don't think that even if these things were unpiratable I would have bought them, since there are many other things like console games that I would love to play but don't, because those can't be pirated.

If anything so many methods of cheap entertainment are a bad thing for me more than the big money corporations, since I waste time with their garbage instead of bettering myself.

>>10507641
>Then you could call the cops on whoever cracked and shared their copy
We'd just end up with every pirated thing being bought using stolen credit card info.

>>10507657
> stolen credit card info.
'sup, interstate fraud

>>10507660
Doesn't matter if they can't catch me!

>>10507653
>there are many other things like console games that I would love to play but don't, because those can't be pirated.
They can very well be pirated, you just didn't research enough. Of all relevant consoles just PS3s (manufactured after 2010) and PS Vita's are "unpiratable" at the moment (I'm not sure about Wii U).

>>10507373

atleast 1,000 dollars

>>10507667
so colorful and shiny
I like it

>>10507671
I'd post the "space-sniffer" version but I don't want /jp/ to make fun of my taste.

i pirated so much i might actually turn into a pirate LOL

>>10507682
fukkin lel'd bro
epic post

>>10507682
hopefully ur handsome like CAPTAIN(emphasis on the captain) jack spar-gets interrupted-

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>10507682
Yarr.

2,2TB to anime
74GB to music
87GB to VNs(untranslated only cuz i'm not plebware like most of you poser otaku)

Got barely anything in my backlog, apart from 3 or 4 anime to finish. And some minor routes to take care of.

So uh, probably in the 10000$~

>>10507373
I never download any games, animes, movies whatever. Its just not fair to anyone.
Somehow though, ... it appears that suddenly random games or similar seems to be auto-installed without me knowing. Since they are already installed then, I keep them and play them, obviously.
Anyone experiences the same?

>>10507434
What is this from?

If not for piracy I might have bought a legit copy of Windows when I bought my first new PC.

That's about that, though.

Here, take it. I think they're stickers.

about tree fiddy

>>10507373
at least 10k USD

all that anime, porn, games, books

>>10507745
They are, I have some slapped onto my tower.

>>10507706
Yeah, my hard drive is full of games, anime, and music that just kind of auto-installed onto my computer somehow. It's not my fault.

>>10507706
>>10507760
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability

CAN'T TOUCH ME, RIAA.

Including all the books, comics, and games, I estimate around... $1500 in doujin comics, maybe another $500 on other manga and that much again on anime, $200 on eroge, probably around $500 in doujin music, and maybe around $200 in games.

>>10507373

I am a lawyer for Ryuukishi, your image is in violation of Higurashi and Umineko no naku koro ni's trademark minor "red letters" with "white letters" title. Cease and desist immediately or we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

Sincerely,

Phoenix Wright

Are there seriously people in the year 2012 who don't use trucrypt?

>>10508470
I don't use any sort of encryption. I don't think it's necessary.

Probably around 100000€ including movies, games, music, etc...
Considering of about the 900 moivies I have watched I have only watched in the cinema and TV like 100 and I pirated all my games for the PSone and PS2 eras and currently I pirate any game I want for PC, I have like 10 music CDs out of like over 500 CDs I have listened on my life time. I have watched through the internet over 300 anime series and like 5 on TV (horrible dubs) which I would have had to buy, etc...
It's hard to get a real amount but I guess 100000€ is close to it.

Probably millions

700-1000 euro's
>>10508470
use it to encrypt porn
current piracy laws here are pretty open to the point of uselessness.

>>10508470
What would be the point? They could just force you to give them the key or arrest you with infringement of justice or something if you don't.

>>10508470
I don't use evil non-free encryption software.

Mind explaining what a "東方" is anyway? I speak whatever language that is.

>>10508565
It's a Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company.

>>10508565
use Rikai Chan

>>10508565
Eastern

>>10508549
Not in the land of the free. It's called the 5th amendment.

idk how much money this is worth

>>10508593
>5th amendment
If people have a search warrant for your computer, you have to show them what's on the computer. It doesn't violate due process.

A lot, because I didn't waste money on manga just to see if I like it.

>>10508628

Assuming they're all around retail price somewhere around $3150

>>10508636
They can search all they want, but I don't have to give them the password because that would violate the 5th amendment.

According to my hard drive I have 622 folders of downloaded visual novels. This does not include the fan discs who I just throw in a sub-folder in the same folder. If we assume every VN costs around $18~ then it totals around:

$13000

100% of my money.
thank you internet.

>>10508470
>truecrypt
Nope. And I don't use any other kind of security software named by teenagers, either. But my laptop's got whole hard-drive encryption built-in, since I also use it for work and it's mandatory (in case the thing gets stolen, you don't want trade secrets out on the internet before you can even try to sell your proprietary solution. Basically just means I need to enter my password twice to start the thing up.)

>>10508724
>work

>>10508731
ebin re/a/ction image m8

>>10508738

>>10508746
onegai senpai~

>>10508738
You forgot the "/b/" in "ebin". Honestly, do I need to teach you the basics of shitposting?

>>10508724
Why not? Truecrypt is a NEET's friend.

>>10507378
Bullshit.

>>10508748
Only those wanted by the FBI.

>>10508759
There's no excuse for not having your hard drive encrypted.

>>10508759
In other words people who like lolicon.

>>10508680
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice
You can take your amendment and shove it up your ass. Or they'll do it for you, and you won't like it.

>>10508763
I'm lazy.

Probably around 200k USD.

And that includes albums, tv series and JAV (around five hundred titles).

>>10508766
> However, in most common law jurisdictions, the right to remain silent allows any person questioned by police merely to refuse to answer questions posed by an investigator without giving any reason for doing so. (In such a case, the investigators may subpoena the witness to give testimony under oath in court, though the witness may then exercise their rights, for example the Fifth Amendment, if they believe their answer may serve to incriminate themselves).
>for example the Fifth Amendment, if they believe their answer may serve to incriminate themselves).

Get fucked.

>>10508724
Wow you sure are cool mister. I hope I can be like you when I grow up.

>>10508777
>witness

>>10508788
Out of curiosity, how old are you?

>>10508793
That's not relevant. It's an example. Everyone has constitutional rights, unless Obama says you're a terrorist.

Then you get drone striked.

>>10508797
I'm only twee and haf yeas owd.

>>10508763
There isn't a single reason to encrypt your hard drive. You are a sheep for using software that does nothing. How do you feel?

>>10508802
Pita, I was looking for a fifteen year old who I could make a sex friend.

>>10508810
Don't be upset because it's too complicated for novices like you.

I thought hidden partitions were supposed to take care of the whole coerced disclosure of passwords?

>>10508799
No. It is relevant. The defendant cannot invoke the fifth amendment. You must answer the questions they ask you or you will be held in contempt of court.

>>10508724
enjoy your built in masterkey

truecrypt is a open source software that nobody can crack or modify

>>10508818
>The defendant cannot invoke the fifth amendment.

Wrong.

>>10508788
>>10508797
>>10508802
>>10508805
Twit.

test

>>10508810
Truecrypt ensures that my parents don't find my porn and embarrassing touhou doujins when using my computer.

>>10508828

>>10508813
>complicated
So you're an idiot. Gotcha.

>>10508763
See >>10508769

>>10508840
No, I will not teach you how. Stop asking.

test9oicles

>>10508843
Okay I'll spell it out for you like to a 12 year old
The fact that you think it's in any way complicated makes you a fucking retard.
Good night.

>>10508847
Didn't I already say no? Ask your parents for help if you can't figure it out.

Everyone here needs to chill. Bad vibes can only be had from this disagreeable noise.

>>10508942
you have the right idea, friend

let's all have a nice group hug :-)

>>10508979
:^)

>>10508960
>「:-)」

>>10508979
>``>「":-)"」''

>>10509102
>“`>「":-)"」''”

>>10507373
about three fiddy

>>10510926
Someone already said that DUMB☆ASS( ･`д･´)

lol check out all these losers with no money to buy anything, i bet you all live in your mums basement LMAO

>>10511053
well then it's the truth then.

>>10507373
Fuck you, i would if i could. Luna is worth it.

“Piracy”
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

>>10512284
The problem is that publishers want games to be treated as physical goods in terms of copyrights, but not in terms of their quality. You can't return a game or a music CD because their contents are shit.
tl;dr jews

>>10512284
Modern pirates just rob the ship and leave, don't they? They're fisher guys, only doing it because they've got boats but there's no fish, or at least that's what I've been led to believe.

Anyway nobody's advocating stringing people up for loading a few mp3's or movies without paying.

Maybe around 1000€ when it comes to music, plenty of the music that I listen to is free anyways.
About 400-500€ when it comes to movies
I have no idea about animu and mango
I buy most of my games, but I'd say that Ive saved around 500-700€ when it comes to that. Not counting in games that I first pirated and ended up buying afterwards for whatever reason.