Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can understand piracy when they take away something you’ve already bought, but I’d not want to do it for something I haven’t bought yet.

  I wanna be able to support people creating what I like.

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  • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I actually probably provide more support for the things I like because I pirate. Look at it this way - if I had to subscribe to a million services, I just wouldn’t watch a lot of things (because I don’t like spending money month over month for services). Now, I download what I want to watch, and if it’s good I go and tell my friends and family how good it is and they go and watch it, bringing more eyeballs to their show/movie than they would’ve had otherwise. Pirating isn’t stealing or taking away from creatives imo

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    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t agree, but I can agree to disagree with you.

      For me as long as you’re not paying for some form of art, you’re not supporting the artist, so you’re stealing.

      But I’d be the first one to download a torrent if something I paid for kind of disappeared like this.

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      • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha agree to disagree. I’m paying them through eXpOsuRe (jk)

        Yeah I don’t feel an ounce of remorse about it, but if I did I probably wouldn’t do it!

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  • Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially with movies, the people who made the thing are already paid by the time it is released. As little as possible. VFX houses are often fucked royally and don't even break even. Even big-name actors are usally screwed over by Hollywood accounting.

    By paying you only feed the leeches who then use their resources to fuck over everyone else.

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