ParsnipWitch
@ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
You don’t need to buy physical copies. Games from GoG and, for example, itch.io can be downloaded DRM free.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
The average user of Lemmy has more empathy with a two times convicted rapist than with Amber Heard or that one woman from this atrocious Tiger King series.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
Jep, Not even two years for his second rape.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
Murder doesn’t get laughable sentences. Like under two years for a repeated offender.
Murderes also normally don’t have a whole bunch of people online rallying behind their right of redemption. It’s only rapists who get this and suddenly everyone turns into Jesus online and demands the victims better forgive them!
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
Why is this “especially relevant to rape cases”?
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
What do you think can restorative justice look like for crimes like torture (that is what rape is)?
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
“Trauma is part of life”? Murder and dieing is also part of life. Sorry, but that just doesn’t make sense. Trauma in a clinical sense is certainly not “part of life”.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
There is no reason why rape is judged much less severely than torture though.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
In the absolute majority of rape cases there is no bettering themselves happening because the rapists never face any consequences to begin with.
- Comment on What game fits this? 9 months ago:
RuneScape, Ark, … DOTA2 (especially with that cry for help).
Some people get lost for thousands of hours in grand-strategy games like Europa Universalis. Or MMOs like Eve Online.
But feeling like the game consumed you is grinder and MOBA territory.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 10 months ago:
By the artist Skrumpgoblin
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
No, I mean that they should think of own measurements against illegal media and communication.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Organisations and groups who want to protect privacy should come up with ways themselves on how to protect their services from certain activities.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Since the idea seems to be that pirating digital goods is a moral imperative, the question what are the consequences if everyone would do it is valid.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Do you believe actors etc. would still keep getting paid if everyone would just pirate everything?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
But you do understand that if nobody would buy a ticket, there wouldn’t be concerts?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
It just seems that what you are saying is that people shouldn’t be paid if their work doesn’t create something physical.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Why should an artist not be paid but a gardener or someone who build your house is supposed to be paid?
After all, humans build stuff and make stuff with plants without compensation all the time.
You just sound like a Boomer who thinks work is only work when the product isn’t entertaining or art.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
What would you call it if you make a contract with a gardener, they make your entire garden and then you don’t pay them. Since it’s not stealing, where is the harm, right?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Do you give those 40 people back their donation money if you ever close your service? Since in the end, they never got any of the hardware or media they watched over your Plex for their money.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Don’t you see the problem in your reasoning? When everyone would just pirate, nobody would be able to get paid. The money that pays the wages for the workers isn’t willed into existence, it ultimately comes from the consumer. Bigger studios pay their workers before the project is finished. That money comes from ongoing sales they produced before.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Because the majority of people do not pirate because they truly believe they are doing something morally good. That’s laughable.
The majority of people pirates stuff because they feel entitled to it and are greedy and because it works and is easy to do. They do not respect those who put the work into the music or the movies or the games.
What makes me so angry about it is the hypocrisy. Since these are often the same people who are virtue signalling about how capitalism is bad since employers are too greedy to pay good wages.
The irony is quite strong in this.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
That’s why I am against indiscriminately pirating all digital goods. Because it’s morally wrong to have people work for you and than not pay them.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
What’s with the hundreds of thousands of other media that is shared?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Are you against employees getting good wages?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Most people who work on open source projects have a lucrative job and work on Open Source on the side. I also volunteer, but I still need a job that actually pays me as well.
Reading some of the comments here it feels like speaking to little children who believe money magically appears on their account.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
So, you would work for free for your employer?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
How did your employer pay your loans? Or did your money perhaps came from those people who actually do pay for in-game currency in your games?
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Libraries get money via tax. What people here are arguing for is that others should work for them or free. Because game studios, for example, are overwhelmingly not paid via tax money. They are depending on people buying their software.
