You’re delusional man. Creating information costs a lot of money. Do you think it takes the same amount of investment to create a 10gb file of random bytes as a 10gb file that contains a movie with actors?
Imagine if only a single person had to buy your movie in order for everyone to watch it. Wherevs the logic in that?
The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume. So yeha, paying customers are actually the only reason you get to pirate movies, because if everyone had your same mindset, the industry would be dead.
And I pirate movies too, I’m just not in denial with reality.
yeha, piracy isn’t about buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing with friends? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people you don’t even know, who can probably afford the content. For some peiple it is about just downloading content for free.
How much people have a home server that costs thousands of dollars with tens of terabytes to download all the movies they want and then sell a subscription to their NAS, or just share that for free to people who can totally afford paying for a streaming service.
How much people in developing countries pay for illegal streaming boxes that have a return of investment of around 4 years in order to avoid paying for streaming services?
How much people could totally afford one month of a streaming service to watch a series, but instead pirate it?
If you think piracy is about sharing movies with friends, you live in a fairytale.
I pirate movies, I know why I do it and it isn’t ethical at all. I do it because I don’t want to give my money to streaming services. But I don’t lie to myself about what I’m doing. Am I helping someone who really can’t afford the movie? Sure, but I’m mostlikely sharing it with someone like me.
You’re delusional man. Creating information costs a lot of money. Do you think it takes the same amount of investment to create a 10gb file of random bytes as a 10gb file that contains a movie with actors?
Imagine if only a single person had to buy your movie in order for everyone to watch it. Wherevs the logic in that?
The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume. So yeha, paying customers are actually the only reason you get to pirate movies, because if everyone had your same mindset, the industry would be dead.
And I pirate movies too, I’m just not in denial with reality.
You seem to have trouble understanding the fact that people can buy things and share them with those who can’t.
I’ve already given you an example of the game Mindustry, which people buy on Steam (16k reviews): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry, even though it’s released under a free software license and you can get it for free on Itch: https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry and you can get its source code on GitHub: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry.
Weird, huh? For some reason the internet and Bittorrent hasn’t changed that.
yeha, piracy isn’t about buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing with friends? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people you don’t even know, who can probably afford the content. For some peiple it is about just downloading content for free.
How much people have a home server that costs thousands of dollars with tens of terabytes to download all the movies they want and then sell a subscription to their NAS, or just share that for free to people who can totally afford paying for a streaming service.
How much people in developing countries pay for illegal streaming boxes that have a return of investment of around 4 years in order to avoid paying for streaming services?
How much people could totally afford one month of a streaming service to watch a series, but instead pirate it?
If you think piracy is about sharing movies with friends, you live in a fairytale.
I pirate movies, I know why I do it and it isn’t ethical at all. I do it because I don’t want to give my money to streaming services. But I don’t lie to myself about what I’m doing. Am I helping someone who really can’t afford the movie? Sure, but I’m mostlikely sharing it with someone like me.