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I still pay even though I pirate. Debrid service, Usenet etc.
It's always been a service issue not a money issue for me. I realize not everyone has the luxury of that issue.
Right now I'm paying about $6/month. I could always reduce it to 0 but at this price the extra QOL features are worth it.
I pirate because my money is more important to be spent on necessities. A video game isn't going to pay my bills. A music track isn't going to pay my car payment. A book isn't going to pay my groceries.
Entertainment to me is just a luxury. Not everything I've gotten was pirated, if but spent sparingly when sales and deals come around. But if me wanting something such as a game is going to come between that and me needing food for another week or two. The food is going to win out and that game is going to be pirated.
I don't have all of the time in the world either to keep waiting, waiting, and waiting for deals to be low enough for me to afford whatever it is.
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.
Nah, that's all fundamentally wrong.
Paying artists for their work, especially when there's not enough food for everyone, is capitalist bullshit that perpetuates and is perpetuated by letting rich people dominate society. Your post makes the problem worse by not expressing any loss of respect for artists who enrich themselves while others starve.
If Eminem read your reply, he'd probably take it as a sign his low income background makes it OK for him to be so famous we both know him, while other people are starving to death and other artists have zero audience - but you're trying to twist it the other way around, like rocket launching him into capitalist mental illness is actually keeping things grounded or something.
That's how you get a society where people like Eminem aren't organizing to overthrow Trump, because instead of the situation being "I'm known and paid as an artist for the useful stuff I do in that position aside from art," the situation is "anything useful I do aside from art will detract from my career as an artist so I should just shut up and be less political, at least less political than organizing a revolution."
If someone doesn't care enough about art to do it when it's hard, their opinion isn't more valuable than mine just because they're poorer than me.
I have been homeless before and probably will again because I have a spine - people who waste their lives doing whatever corporations tell them, do not have more valuable opinions than me just because they have less money than me.
It would be more reasonable if no one paid artists for their work until there was enough food for everyone, and art had to come from people like me who can afford to do it regardless of how much money we have, because we'd rather face stuff like homelessness than waste our lives. That's how you would get a society that isn't culturally dominated by capitalist bullshit.
Then I'd be making money for the useful stuff I do instead of facing possible homelessness, Eminem would be making money for the useful stuff he does including making any political statements he wants instead of staying quiet to get paid for music, and Trump wouldn't be a topic.
Edited this comment a lot. Made it too long. Removed one angry paragraph because all the paragraphs are too angry as it is. Sorry.
Pirate to own what they want me to rent.
& piracy as archival
¿Por qué no los dos?
I pirate on principal
This could mean either thing!
I pirate on my pc and the internet.
I pirate on supernintendo chalmers
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.
‘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.
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
There's a minor issue with this meme.
I pirate because I'm a cheap bastard.
I am a pirate because I are.
Don't you mean arrrrrr?
Arrrrrrrrrr.