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platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 4 months agoYou’re delusional man. Creating information costs a lot of money. Do you think it takes the same amount of investment to create a 10gb file of random bytes as a 10gb file that contains a movie with actors?
Imagine if only a single person had to buy your movie in order for everyone to watch it. Wherevs the logic in that?
The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume. So yeha, paying customers are actually the only reason you get to pirate movies, because if everyone had your same mindset, the industry would be dead.
lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You seem to have trouble understanding the fact that people can buy things and share them with those who can’t.
I’ve already given you an example of the game Mindustry, which people buy on Steam (16k reviews): store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry, even though it’s released under a free software license and you can get it for free on Itch: anuke.itch.io/mindustry and you can get its source code on GitHub: github.com/Anuken/Mindustry.
Weird, huh? For some reason the internet and Bittorrent hasn’t changed that.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 4 months ago
yeha, piracy isn’t buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people. And for some it is about just downloading something for free, even if they don’t know who shared it with them.