As every musician knows, exposure is always better than payment! This is why you shouldn’t offer payment to musicians at your wedding, since they’re getting great exposure already. /s
Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoThe irony is, you pirating today has been shown to influence you buying it later on in a sale. And there’s a good argument to be made about your word of mouth praise helping their sales.
poopkins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s two very different cases. Using exposure to extort services out people is different than copying something to see if you’d enjoy it.
poopkins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s really not that different. The main difference is the audience size. For an independent musician selling merchandise, it would be equally insulting to them to tell them that they will be repaid in exposure if they give you one for free.
Making a copy of something “to see if you’d enjoy it” or because it’s somehow great for their exposure is mental gymnastics to justify piracy. Let’s just call it intellectual property theft and stop beating around the bush.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Copying isn’t theft. You’re about 40 years late to this conversation and you’re starting from the taste of boots? You’re equating an instantly reproducible, finished product with a service; your analogy sucks.
PrincessZelda@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Biggest personal examples are Minecraft and FL Studio. I asked my parents to buy Minecraft for me after a week of pirating it, and I bought an FL Studio license when I could afford to, nearly a decade after I first used it. I don’t use it much, but it felt right.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
yup, pirated jedi: fallen order. liked the game very much, but jedi: survivor wasn’t cracked yet. so i bought a key for 30€.
the problem is: it runs like shit, because it’s a bad PS5 port and denuvo probably also has an effect on that.
i will never buy from EA again.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
It likely was the fault of denuvo, which ironically piracy would strip improving the experience.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yup. I’m about to suggest about half a dozen people to watch a movie on Netflix I pirated last night. I have “suggested” to a few dozen people to watch Hulu for Firefly.
They don’t get my money because I don’t give a flying fuck about the extortion of the people this tyrrany that’s been running since Crowley and even longer. Looks free but there was never an end to slavery. It just stopped giving a shit about your color. To counter, goes over everyone’s head one way or another. Doesn’t matter. All life will die on this planet in less than a decade.
poopkins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Holy moly that comment took a turn.
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, but did you get it at the “counter?”
poopkins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, I don’t get it.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Jesse, WTF are you talking about?
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Sucks being uneducated, especially when folks don’t care to help because you’re a condescending dick about it. Not to mention religiously expletive.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
RIP
Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Ditto.