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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, sometimes you wanna buy a thing you like. Crazy concept. We also wouldn’t have any media if everyone pirated.

  Now, in the case of movies and TV, I totally pirate, and I get why people would pirate because you don’t even own them on streaming services. Never know when Amazon/Disney/HBO/Whoever is going to randomly take your show down because they don’t feel like paying for the license anymore, etc. This is exactly what happened to my mom with Funamation, it got nuked and Crunchyroll bought it, but you can’t even watch some shows anymore cause of licensing. So we pirate almost every anime now.

  But when DVD was still the main way to watch, it was mostly fine because you still owned the disc, and could watch it on like any player. So buying media back then made sense.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We also wouldn’t have any media if everyone pirated.

    [citation needed]

    If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      [citation needed]

      You can not seriously think that companies can continue to produce million dollar movies and stay in business if literally every person pirated instead of spending a single penny on them. How the fuck else would they make money? You either pay for content, or don’t if people don’t pay, they lose money. Don’t be obtuse.

      If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.

      Never said nobody should copy. I want people to make copies and backups, that’s fantastic. Thank you for putting words in my mouth.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don’t think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We’ve been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn’t something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Where do you get pirated copies if no one buys it?

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• smee@poeng.link ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I pirated three copies of Starship Troopes and I’ll download it again just out of pure spite.

  You wouldn’t download a car

  I got into 3D printing so I could pirate copy physical object.

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• piefood@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like supporting my creators. I don't pirate music, because Bandcamp is a thing, and I don't pirate video games because GoG is a thing. I also subscribe to Patreon and the like.

  What I don't like is giving my money to shitty companies that try to tell me how I am allowed to manage/retain/consume that media.

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