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- memes@lemmy.ml
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MOD ACTION: I’m locking this post. It’s gone off the rails a bit.
Pirate to own what they want me to rent.
License
& piracy as archival
Perfectly happy to pay artists for their work; entirely unwilling to pay the scum that aggregate and charge for access to that art, with countless strings attached.
I don’t even get why pay artists for their work at times like this. Seems like that should be for times when there’s enough food for everyone.
Easy for me to say as someone with enough food to do art as a hobby, but still
If it becomes impossible to make a living as an artist, the only people becoming creatives will be the kids of rich people. Mummy and daddy can pay for them to spend 10 years flouncing around Hollywood, making loss making tv shows, or whatever before they stand a chance of being paid enough. Already a huge problem.
If only rich people are making art, it’s inevitable that mass culture will be dominated by the ideology and beliefs of out of touch rich people. If you want culture that criticizes the status quo, you need more poor or working class kids in the creative sector.
This being said, my pension plan is a rope, so I’m quite happy pirating rather than paying for luxuries. Especially if I’m stealing from a company that engages in wage theft, avoids paying tax, etc. If anything it then becomes perfectly moral.
But if you have some spare money, go support artists and creatives who deserve it.
Not that I’m judging anyone.
I pirate on principal
I pirate on my pc and the internet.
I pirate on supernintendo chalmers
¿Por qué no los dos?
I pirate but still go to local indie house cinemas to contribute to good artists. I’ll go commercial cinema too as that’s only £5 and you can take your own food.
There’s a minor issue with this meme.
Always wanted to ask whether this is a meme com now and whether piracy memes could be separate so the main remains for proper interesting discussions and questions
I don’t think the Threadiverse is big enough for it to matter in most cases, this comm is huge, but yet there were 3 posts all day yesterday to it
Plus, memes are perfectly capable of sparking serious discussions and questions to lol
‘Piracy’ is only a problem if ‘Intellectual Property’ is treated as a legitimate concept, and not an arbitrary construct of artificial constraint imposed on intrinsically abundant resources.
Copyright and patents should be replaced with a system designed to quantify and attribute the true value of ideas, and not reward locking them away as tightly as possible.
I pirate because I’m a cheap bastard.
I am a pirate because I are.
Don’t you mean arrrrrr?
Arrrrrrrrrr.
Pirate to avoid terrible ux
Piracy is socialism
We’re at a point where the improved user experience is enough justification.
Every service ever is putting revenue above costumer satisfaction. Every streaming app gets in the way of what you want to watch so they can funnel you to the same 3 Movies/TV Shows. Searching is almost useless you get a few results related to your search term and the rest is unrelated garbage.
The other day I was watching a movie at a friend’s house on Netflix. When you hit pause, the movie minimizes into a card on the left and the rest of the screen turns into a fucking advertisement.
Like, not even a “recommendation” for another movie on the service, just a full blown ad for something else, ours was a food delivery app ad.I’ve gotten spoiled by the Piracy experience. Over here it’s me first and me above everything.
None of my ‘services’ fill my screen with ads for their new season so the shareholders can recoup their half a billion investment.
They show me my media and get the fuck out of my way. It’s refreshing.
The apps are made by people who actually use them daily and there’s no pressure to make a “return of investment”, they just make the best user experience they can and that’s it.
