I think it’s weird that people are okay with libraries for books, but when it comes to video games I’m suddenly entitled and have a moral obligation to give artists my money.
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Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At this point I think it’s safe to assume all large companies are evil and so piracy of any software/media/etc created by a large company is the moral thing to do.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a bad argument. Many libraries do have movies, and I’ve seen several with video games.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
You have to elaborate on how it’s a bad argument. The existence of games at libraries doesn’t contradict what I’m saying at all.
People argue it’s immoral to play games because the artists must be compensated, but no one says that about buying used media or loaning from the library even though the artist still receives nothing.
Both loaning and used sales are shown to increase new book sales, so why wouldn’t the same be true for games?
You said that piracy is a moral imperative under these circumstances, and I’m going further to say it was never immoral in the first place.
Also of note is that libraries can’t loan out games for which there is no physical copy, which means big publishers are actively killing library availability as well.
gorkur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Authors do get payed from libraries.
Source: am author, get yearly royalties from libraries.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People wouldn’t make movies or games if they didn’t get money for it.
What you seem to be after is called “slavery”.
nightlily@leminal.space 2 months ago
Librarians don’t get dressed up in balaclavas and hit their nearest book store to get more books. No you’re not entitled to artist‘s work for free.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
Do you think video game piracy involves knocking off a GameStop?
mursejoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It really sucks but I think this is the case. I can’t even read an ebook half the time with proper ownership. It’s either Amazon exclusive and then I don’t own it, or it happens to go on kobo/humble bundle DRM free. Every now and again the author sells things direct DRM free and I’ll buy from them.
I’m not giving Amazon a penny for their ebook scam library where they can change anything on a whim. It’s some serious 1984 shit, they can change the contents of the ebook whenever they want.
GMac@feddit.org 2 months ago
You can de-DRM your kobo ebooks i think. They havent blocked pc downloads like amazon did
mursejoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I don’t worry about kobo, but I can’t find everything on there. Since Dungeon Crawler Carl is only on Amazon it seems like he has a publishing deal with them or something. It just sucks I can’t actually buy to own those books without getting physical copies.
GMac@feddit.org 2 months ago
I get that. I just buy the physical book if kobo dont deal.