I think overall that piracy is good.

It returns control over media, instead of being bound to specific platforms or stores.
It allows you to test things on your hardware, before committing to a purchase.
It makes it possible to recover old media that you physically lost.
It makes your media portable, able to copy it to a new device or hardware without being locked out.
It makes things sharable, able to give a copy to a friend to have them try it out.

But one thing I find difficult is just the sheer amount of things that exist nowadays.
I don’t know how you guys manage it, but I have more media on just my laptop (external drives and such excluded) than I could really enjoy in my lifetime. How to even make choice of what to watch, play, read, next?

I know, very much a first-world problem. But still, it boggles my mind.

  • giant_smeeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I first had this when I was a kid and got an R4 DS cart. I used go get a handful of games a year and play them to death. Since getting the cart I barely finished any games.

  • TruscapeEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Lists, my guy. Figure out what games you want to play, movies to watch, etc…

    You don’t need to hoard everything. You can go around and look as your tastes develop, that’s part of being human after all.

  • dreamishmy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    This problem is isn’t only about piracy. Also having too much choices isn’t a bad thing, variety is good. you can always find your way.

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      This is the answer, OP. Curating your tastes and learning to seek out art based on your values is a skillset that algorithms are attempting to destroy.

      You are not a product, engage with art meaningfully like how a person should

      • tea@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        37 minutes ago

        This is something that I learned after having kids. There are more things I want to do than I have time to do them. I needed to learn the skill of being selective because time is a zero sum game, unfortunately.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    2·
    2 hours ago

    True. Enough movies have been made, enough books written. There’s no need for more. Stop creating stuff, everyone — unless you really need to, in which case you might be an artist or a writer.

  • rayf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    It’s not because everything is avaible that you must take everything. Carefully select and make list of what you want/have/“consumed”

    • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Had a friend recently try to send me this “arr-stack” that automatically grabbed the top new movie/tv releases of every month. Since he heard I was “doing it the old way”.

      When I told him the VAST majority of shit coming out isn’t stuff I’m interested in watching he tried to convince I could just blacklist those things…So almost everything your bot grabs? instead of just grabbing what I actually want?

      • lukalix98@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You can actually select what you want to grab. I mean I use Sonarr and Radarr, and if I’m interested in something new I add it to the library, if all criteria are met (like quality, language, etc.), it queues the download. Pretty neat.

  • dmir@gehirneimer.de
    1·
    2 hours ago

    If you can’t make the decision for yourself, especially such a inconsequential one, probably just rolle the dice or something. It can even be fun when you define multiple criteria and roll of each, ending up doing something that you already might have anyway, because it’s in your pool, but there’s still kind of discovery here, like you stumble upon something from your own collection.

  • KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I can’t say I don’t have this problem, but the reality is that really is a non-issue regarding piracy.

    It comes down to two things actually: procrastination and unnecessary use of your resources. Meaning, you should just start what actually gets you interested, and move on. And instead of data hoarding tons of media, try to consume what you have first instead.

  • username_1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    “Unsanctioned copying” gives me a big pile to choose from, but in reality I still have nothing. For example I like computer games, but I use Linux, so 2/3 of titles are unplayable. 90% of rest are things that are completely not interesting to me. I am lucky if I can find something playable once or twice per month.

    I really don’t feel your problem.

  • D06M4@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I usually browse sites like MobyGames in search of games made by some of my favorite devs (as in people, not studios or publishers). Keeping track of their work and discovering new talent is what works for me, and I always end up buying whatever I truly wish to keep even if I make a patched backup of the games’ files anyway in case it wasn’t DRM free.