TheCaconym [any]

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Cake day: September 19th, 2020

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  • No, I don’t, because I can afford stuff and pirating in this situation would be just pure stealing which I believe is morally wrong

    Stealing suggests they don’t have the content anymore; they do. “Copying” is the word you’re looking for.

    The whole “stealing” comparison rather breaks down when there is basically no scarcity / no cost to duplicating and distributing what has been produced

    Even arguing it’s “stealing” because it deprives the publisher of the cost isn’t exactly true, because it only holds if you’d actually have ponied up were the content not available for free (I know for sure I definitely wouldn’t have played some games or watched some shows if I had had to actually pay for them)

    You want to use something that exists thanks to capitalism

    Artistic content is, believe it or not, produced outside of capitalism as well. And in capitalist societies it often is produced despite capitalism, not thanks to it, and one could argue capitalism itself is a large part of the reason that content’s quality has taken a dive over the past decades


  • I think the profit motive isn’t the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.

    Mind you on paper I wouldn’t even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally

    Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those

    this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes

    I think that has already happened to be honest