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YA HAR FIDDLE-DEE-DEE!
BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT TO BE!
DO WHAT YOU WANT 'CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE!
YOU ARE A PIRATE!

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I wanted to watch the original run of Fullmetal Alchemist again. It basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Lots of people say Brotherhood is better. I get it. But it’s just not the same to me

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I love both and whenever I’m in a FMA mood I watch them together. The first anime does a fantastic job with things like mood, atmosphere, lightning and music, and throws some interesting ideas and concepts into the the narrative.

To anyone who enjoyed FMA but only watched Brotherhood, please do yourself a favor and watch the '03 anime.

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Just remember that some of us have to plunge the cutlass into our wallets so that others may sail. Seed, please.

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I’m very close to get a global ratio on qbittorrent of 5, seeing number go up really motivates me to continue contributing

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The recent South Park movies aren’t available in the Netherlands. I guess the exclusive streaming service is a pirate’s life then.

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I live in the US, but there’s a lot of media I’d like to watch that isn’t available in the US. Piracy is literally my only option, because I’m not given legal ways to consume that content.

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A legal option is VPNs

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Not all VPNs are equal. Also, even with a good VPN, you still can have your real area leaking via your Real Time Clock.

Honestly, just pirating is a lot fucking easier than paying for attempts at multiple VPNs just to see if I can make an account at the BBC and watch iPlayer. I’ve failed at that more times than I’ve succeeded.

Finally, VPNs are only legal in the sense that the only thing the BBC can do is… deny you access to their content. Similar to Youtube and Ad Blockers. It’s their content, they own it, and it’s fair game for them to try to make people pay for it. Since the BBC is publicly funded, that means me making a BBC account to watch iPlayer via a VPN is probably breaking their “Terms of Service” which means they are legally allowed to remove my account at any time. Because I am effectively using the BBC without paying for it if I use a VPN.

It’s legal, but it’s still a TOS violation which can get you banned by a lot of services.

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