There's another one: access to media while in poverty
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Access to culture itself if you think about it
I do think you should give money to smaller creators, if you have it, but i don't think thats super controversial, pirating is most effective against the billionares.
Forget effectiveness, the little guys rarely screw you over for their own greed.
True dat
Piracy is unmet consumer demand. - Gaben
Honestly it's also back to being a price thing for me.... Shit's out of control, "sales" are $30 for a 5 year old game.
It seems like since the pandemic everyone and everything is raising prices and somehow they all have a reason, yet my pay stays the same...
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but if your pay has stayed the same for 5 years, you have a you-problem on your hands.
Piracy is moral as long as it doesn't hurt actual people, corporations don't count
Most people working on big media productions (movies, shows, games) get a fixed price or salary for doing so. The owners / publishers (maybe also big stars in movies which already are millionaires) get all of the rest when a production sells good.
So by buying / paying for subscription services you only support big c-suite assholes which sit on the rights to media which they have contributed nothing to, except for capital maybe. I won't pay some intransparent big corporation to be able to watch a 10 year old movie / show just to make those people richer.
Piracy is not immoral, but if it's too widespread it can destroy opportunities for people creating things to get paid for creating things, and so they may not be able to continue doing so. And that just makes the world worse.
Try to find a way to support the people that make stuff that you love. For example I won't pirate music from small bands, I only pirate games if they have onerous DRM or something (never indie games), and I'll only pirate books if they're ridiculously overpriced and I can't get a standalone DRM free version.
Just cos you're a pirate doesn't mean you can't have morals.
Gotta love itch.io bundles for shopping indie games on a tight budget.
Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there's no place to download them and support the authors.
There's the Google play store. I still prefer physical books though
Piracy is always moral against large companies. It hurts literally no one.
Access to media that companies arbitrarily remove to cut costs in their billion dollar company.
Access to media since companies refuse to put out physical versions now in the age of streaming.
Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there's no place to download them and support the authors.
There should be a simple way to give money to workers for those of us who wouldn't give a single cent to faceless corporations.
Not this again. This discussion was spammed on Reddit continuously, there’s no need to.
Everyone has their own opinion on it. You’re on pirate community, we all pirate. That’s it.
I still like to know why people pirate.
When you purchase digital media, you're purchasing a method to get past DRM to access the content. Nothing more.
When you pirate digital media, you're using other means to acquire a method to get past DRM to access the content. Nothing more.
We've decided arbitrarily that some methods of getting past DRM are better than others despite the result being the same.
You can't purchase digital media. All you're allowed to purchase is a revokable license to consume it under some corporation's terms.
I will do it regardless of what people think of it, I don't care if it is deemed ''moral'' or not.
They dont think it be moral, but it do.