lazyViking
@lazyViking@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tea time 2 days ago:
I like to occasionally post my socials so my FBI agent knows what to follow when they’re axed 🥺
- Comment on What Was the First 3D Platformer? 2 days ago:
Doesn’t really look like you are jumping on platforms, But I could of course be wrong
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 4 days ago:
Please point to where i taste that boot
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 4 days ago:
Life, sure. But not the comment i was originally replying to
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 4 days ago:
It’s not about enshitification at all? It’s all about the point that piracy causes losses. Nothing else. Of course if piracy didn’t cause any losses, no one in the industry would actually be against it. Me, I’m all for it. For all the reasons stated in this thread for some reason. But I’m not sure why anyone keeps bringing it up, as the only talking point is that it fucking causes losses to the producers.
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 5 days ago:
So by your logic, if you pay for a stripper, you should own her for life? Or does paying for a temporary service not suddenly mean ‘ownership’ applies to everything?
Buying digital media means paying for licensed access (and to be fair, I miss buying the physical media because I got to keep it without interference, It doesn’t change anything about lost revenue), just like buying a ticket to a concert or hiring entertainment for a night. That doesn’t mean you ‘own’ the performer or the venue—it means you paid for the experience.
Piracy, meanwhile, is just skipping the payment entirely. Hope that helps!
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 5 days ago:
Just to be clear, I don’t actually care about piracy. Do it or don’t, that’s your business. But saying piracy doesn’t cause losses is just wrong.
You just explained that when piracy was inconvenient, people chose to pay for a better service. That means they had money to spend but were pirating instead—until a better legal option came along. That alone proves piracy takes money away from creators.
And your concert take? Now we’re at ‘stealing is fine as long as nobody makes a big deal about it.’ If sneaking in isn’t theft, does that mean shoplifting is fine too as long as the store doesn’t notice?
Keep going, or don’t—this is an imperfect analogy, I was just trying to help you see why you are so staggeringly wrong
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 5 days ago:
It’s a travesty, really… next thing you know, they’ll be letting them win awards and have opinions…
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 5 days ago:
So you’re admitting that when given an easy, affordable way to access media, people chose to pay rather than pirate? Congratulations, you just proved my point.
The fact that convenience was a key factor doesn’t change the reality that these services turned former pirates into paying customers. If piracy wasn’t causing financial harm, and if people truly ‘weren’t going to buy it anyway,’ then streaming services wouldn’t have reclaimed those users as paying subscribers.
As for your last line—sounds like you cut off mid-thought. You were about to say something profound about why sneaking into a concert isn’t theft? Go on, I could use the laugh
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 5 days ago:
The only thing that could make it even worse for conservative than beeing a successful brown woman Is if she was also dating a successful popular white man… oh wait…
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 5 days ago:
“We were never going to buy it anyway” is a weak argument, considering that the explosion of Netflix, Crunchyroll, and other streaming services (before they turned to shit) proves otherwise.
If piracy didn’t cause financial harm, why did legal streaming platforms dramatically reduce piracy rates when they offered a convenient alternative? The answer is simple: People do pay when given the right option.
And the “it doesn’t destroy stock” excuse? That’s like saying sneaking into a concert isn’t theft because the band still plays for everyone else. It’s still taking something without paying for it.
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 5 days ago:
? It is exactly how piracy works? What do you mean?
- Comment on How To Carve An Emperor Philippa Georgiou Pumpkin 4 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 months ago:
Explain
- Comment on First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies 9 months ago:
I guess we found out if it was very immediately killing them, and post-mortem, could probably see (a little bit), how much the kidney was to blame