[Discussion] Have you ever pirated something because you forgot you own it?

Shit, I've pirated something because I forgot I had already pirated it.

I pirate because it's more convenient. No launcher, no update, no DRM, no need to be always online. I still purchase games but still play the pirated version.

I found my home server is sooooo much faster and more reliable than my streaming services. I usually forget I can watch in a legit way. No ads to skip, stupid popups when you pause, or buffering issues. I ❤️ Local Files!

I pirated a game because my parents had a party at our house and I didn't want to deal with people while getting the game from the living room.

For the curious, LoZ:Twilight Princess.

Basically everything on prime video because I can't stand the lag on the official app

I have pirated stuff I know I own because the pirated copy was better quality than what I actually paid for.

I've own GTA 4 on Steam for years but recently sort out a cracked copy because I keep having issues with Rockstars shitty DRM and them removing songs from the radio in updates.

I once pirated a book I wrote because it was faster to download a pirate PDF than to find my original files and export a PDF myself.

It still counted as piracy because the book was owned by a company I used to own.

Man, I'll download stuff just because I don't want to dig through all the DVDs lol.

But, yah, I actually have done that a few times. I even did it twice with goonies. I keep forgetting that I got it as a gift on DVD years ago, get a hankering to watch it, and I've got so many files that it's easy for my dyslexic ass to miss one while scrolling.

Did it with several of those older nostalgia movies here and there because of the same reason. But I still never get around to dyslexia proofing my file naming lol.

More. I downloaded The Last Wish in PDF I think, but I forgot I had bought the book. After a spring cleaning I found a second copy of the book I had bought.

Not what you asked, but I pirated a software because it could only run on one machine. For my second computer they wanted me to buy another license... Unacceptable.

I pirate things I have right in front of me!! Scratched DVD's that won't rip, same for CD's, and sometimes old digital formats that are no longer well supported, or in the case of eBooks, don't re-flow properly. Yes, some of us are still doing weird shit we got used to on Blackberries and Palm Pilots(These days I use Sprint Reader, but I'll also read the material normally when studying for a test).

Some shows or movies I pay to stream don't work well on whatever device I've opted to play them on. Knowing why doesn't magically give me the means to transcode as needed without screen capture; Piracy skips the steps of watching them on a device I didn't mean to just to edit/trim and then have them in a format I no longer need!

I've downloaded a car. Now I have 2 car.

GTA: SA. I have a DVD for the official PC version, it's the one with all the music still intact. I often re-download it on TPB and then remember that I made an ISO of my good ol' DVD version ^^

Yes, because I lost the original version.

Because I forgot I own it... no. But because I was too lazy go get the physical media and insert into my desktop player, oh yes. To be fair it downloaded probably faster than the time I would've spent looking for it.

Yeah. I pirated it already.

I pirate things knowing that I own them... All my old TurboGraphx HuCard roms. I would rather play on modern hardware.

Downloaded Control from Fitgirl, but turns out I already have it on Epic.

I thought I had cyberpunk on steam, couldn't find it so figured I must have pirated it when it launched. I downloaded it and was about to install it when a friend reminded me that gog existed and that was where I owned it.

I've done that with console games on multiple occasions. I'll own a physical copy and already went through the trouble to back up my own copy with my console but I'll download it anyway

I’ve pirated old games because I don’t remember where the floppies are, let alone a floppy drive.

to see if it was worthwhile.

If you are done with what you were set out to do, then sure, upgrade it if it's free.

Not sure why you got downvoted. Though to your question, never happened to me.

But I did pirate a game, I already owned. Death Stranding. I owned it for the PS4 and I back then hated it.

Wanted to retry it but just for the story. Pirated it on PC, got WeMod put everything on and went to play for story, environment and relaxation.

It was such an amazing experience.

I usually play the pirated (abandoned) version of No One Lives Forever because I'm too lazy to deal with the disc.

How is Serato these days? I moved to Traktor around 5 years ago but have recently been looking to change controllers and not sure if I should stick with Traktor or try moving back.

i often pirate movies from a streaming services that im subscribed why? well im used to watch movies at 1.10x speed and tvshows at 1.15x i'd been doing this for years now and i cant go back and netflix or primevideo apps in Smart TV dont allow you to set custom speed so i download the movie on my nas and watch it using VLC for android TV/FIRETV better quality and custom speed.

this is in my bedroom on PC i cant set custom speed using browser

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I spent hours trying to find a specific DVD and gave up. Found it by other means in about 10 minutes.

Eventually I found the DVD about 6 months later misplaced in a CD case.

Didnt lose any sleep over that one.

I pirated the game for my Wii unbecaaise even when I bought second Blu-ray/dvd whatever for the game , it won't run and I get errors about it