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I've been boycotting content providers and studios for many years now. 🏴☠️
Hell yeah brother
Yarr! Shiver me timbers.
That’s not a boycott.
Yes it is
I do not give them money which is the commercial part it's a or not a and. You can still speak or consume their content without paying and still be a boycott.
When you watch content you consume culture. If it's true that you are what you eat, then it's true that you are who you're cultured by.
You might think you're getting out ahead on this deal, but I know you're being affected in small, subtle ways by that content. It's shaping you and nudging you a certain direction. You can deny this but selection bias exists and is a potent drug. Multiplied over millions of people, this has a pretty big capacity to drive narrative.
So the question is: who are you after you consume the programming. And yeah: that we refer to a TV show as a "program" is an irony that should not be overlooked.
If you're more aligned with creators of the programs, is it a boycott? Is it your money or your ideals that is the currency?
But it’s like boycotting a food company, and continuing to eat their food at a friends house.
Only if your friend is buying the food and millions of people are eating the same food over and over. Data is not a physical good.
I don’t care if it is digital or not. It’s the principle of the matter. It’s an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s hypocritical to consume the product yet announce you are boycotting the producer.
If we learned a politician was commenting on boycotting something, and then consuming it in secret, it would be pointed out. There is a disconnect there.
The other way the food analogy breaks down is in how food is essential, and entertainment from Disney is not.
however, when it comes to sailing seas, you share product without it taking any from your own pool in a way that causes it to ever leave your pool. so, then one consumption can split into two consumptions, both able to continue existing and being consumed, while further multiplying more. the first consumer could be the last direct consumer from the boycotted producer, while future consumers can still benefit from or otherwise put to use the product provided something back to us.
in my opinion, this concept of eternal growth and multiplying without being forced by laws of reality for the original sources to ever diminish, makes this different than other scenarios like keeping a second-hand market interest in something while boycotting the main source / producer.
I do take labeling it as akin to a second hand market compelling. That aligns with my views, I think. I dunno, I think I mostly find the discourse very misguided these days. I’ve become really sensitive to people taking in such cavalier ways about media piracy.
I’m not alone in feeling this way, but on lemmy, and maybe elsewhere, I’m in a small minority.
all fair! in my opinion, principles or underlying concepts that make lemmy desirable to a large set of its users are shared with something like "piracy" as a whole. though, arguably there are different offenses of pirating things. for example, things like books and other knowledge resources can be justified easier in some ways than something like that a "today's hot comedy" series. all to say, that'd be my thoughts on why digital shared ownership is likely a commonly accepted thing here.
sort of apart from the original "boycott" point, there's also this layer of Big involved in how much of our available content is stored / accessed / mediated. on the seas, you're resulting moreso in boycotting that Big layer that likely has their stinky mits too far and too deep for what they can really deserve credit for anyway. other methods could be used to support the direct producer of content, if intended, while continuing to boycott the Big that enforces and forces itself between due to convenience, research, pull, etc.
you're not alone in this angle or feeling this way, for sure. as it should be! we're also splitting it at a fairly high-above-ground generalized view, and could both very well be imagining example cases supporting our mindset that happen to live far apart on the spectrum of what this can be pertaining to. there's room to be against it, in favor of it, or anywhere in between based on contexts. I don't know why I'm rambling. thanks for responding with more input! lol :)
This is assuming that friend actually paid for it. Lots of rips are coming from pirate IPTV of which there are so many, they literally have their own protocol that the set top boxes all speak that you can pick and choose from which pirate you want.
Only if that friend stole the food.
I've been giving tutorials on how to torrent entertainment. Money is all these people care about.