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Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 4 days agoI 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.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
[citation needed]
If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
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.
Never said nobody should copy. I want people to make copies and backups, that’s fantastic. Thank you for putting words in my mouth.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I love how you keep changing the focus and what I said.
Neither did I.
Never said that either, nor do I think it. I follow plenty of artists who draw, create music, make videos, etc. simply for the love of it. But we all know why starving artist is a phrase. These people risk their stability and livelihoods on perfecting their craft, and only get appreciation from those who care. The time and resources used to get better at their craft are not free, nor are the external factors like bills and groceries. Artists should be compensated for their work, and you cannot expect an entire team of editors, writers, directors, actors, set makers, etc. to continue to make high quality content while not being paid.
I don’t need movies to be “Marvel Cinematic Explosion”, I don’t watch those anyway. But no matter how good or bad the movie is, time was spent making it, which means people should be compensated. If an artist chooses to share their work for free or on a service that uses ads to monetize their work, then great, that’s what they wanted. But you don’t have to be a greedy capitalist pig to want to be able to eat from your art.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Where do you get pirated copies if no one buys it?