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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I can understand piracy when they take away something you’ve already bought, but I’d not want to do it for something I haven’t bought yet.

I wanna be able to support people creating what I like.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I actually probably provide more support for the things I like because I pirate. Look at it this way - if I had to subscribe to a million services, I just wouldn’t watch a lot of things (because I don’t like spending money month over month for services). Now, I download what I want to watch, and if it’s good I go and tell my friends and family (who aren’t pirates) how good it is and they go and watch it, bringing more eyeballs to their show/movie than they would’ve had otherwise. Pirating isn’t stealing or taking away from creatives imo

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can’t agree, but I can agree to disagree with you.

    For me as long as you’re not paying for some form of art, you’re not supporting the artist, so you’re stealing.

    But I’d be the first one to download a torrent if something I paid for kind of disappeared like this.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Though I agree about 'financial support for content creator' I think our model of copyright doesn't work.

    I'd love your opinion

    Should a content creator keep making money forever once something is produced ? Would you prefer to buy rather than pirate a movie that was made 100 years ago ? Let's say you never bought any Charlie Chaplin movie, would you buy it if you wanted to watch it ?

    The reason I ask is because I'm still unclear myself about what is morally right on this topic. I tend to pirate a lot nowadays because I don't know how to support content creators without filling the pockets of intermediary leeches

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    My personal rule is that I'll buy it as long as the original creators are profiting from new sales. So I'm happy to buy Switch games, but I'm probably not going to buy N64 games because they're not available from the original devs.

    I may buy even if that's not the case if buying is a better experience than getting it some other way.

    If DRM-free digital copies existed for movies, I'd buy them. But they don't, so I buy physical media and rip it to my NAS.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Especially with movies, the people who made the thing are already paid by the time it is released. As little as possible. VFX houses are often fucked royally and don't even break even. Even big-name actors are usally screwed over by Hollywood accounting.

    By paying you only feed the leeches who then use their resources to fuck over everyone else.

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