330
What the fuck you
(lemmy.zip)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
330 points (97.4% liked)
Mildly Infuriating
40325 readers
11 users here now
Home to all things "Mildly Infuriating" Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that.
I want my day mildly ruined, not completely ruined. Please remember to refrain from reposting old content. If you post a post from reddit it is good practice to include a link and credit the OP. I'm not about stealing content!
It's just good to get something in this website for casual viewing whilst refreshing original content is added overtime.
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
7. Content should match the theme of this community.
-Content should be Mildly infuriating.
-The Community !actuallyinfuriating has been born so that's where you should post the big stuff.
...
8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, try to credit the OC.
-Please consider crediting the OC when reposting content. A name of the user or a link to the original post is sufficient.
...
...
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
why you guys still paying for media is beyond me
I mean, sometimes you wanna buy a thing you like. Crazy concept. We also wouldn't have any media if everyone pirated.
Now, in the case of movies and TV, I totally pirate, and I get why people would pirate because you don't even own them on streaming services. Never know when Amazon/Disney/HBO/Whoever is going to randomly take your show down because they don't feel like paying for the license anymore, etc. This is exactly what happened to my mom with Funamation, it got nuked and Crunchyroll bought it, but you can't even watch some shows anymore cause of licensing. So we pirate almost every anime now.
But when DVD was still the main way to watch, it was mostly fine because you still owned the disc, and could watch it on like any player. So buying media back then made sense.
[citation needed]
If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.
You can not seriously think that companies can continue to produce million dollar movies and stay in business if literally every person pirated instead of spending a single penny on them. How the fuck else would they make money? You either pay for content, or don't if people don't pay, they lose money. Don't be obtuse.
Never said nobody should copy. I want people to make copies and backups, that's fantastic. Thank you for putting words in my mouth.
I don't think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don't think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We've been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn't something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.
I love how you keep changing the focus and what I said.
Neither did I.
Never said that either, nor do I think it. I follow plenty of artists who draw, create music, make videos, etc. simply for the love of it. But we all know why starving artist is a phrase. These people risk their stability and livelihoods on perfecting their craft, and only get appreciation from those who care. The time and resources used to get better at their craft are not free, nor are the external factors like bills and groceries. Artists should be compensated for their work, and you cannot expect an entire team of editors, writers, directors, actors, set makers, etc. to continue to make high quality content while not being paid.
I don't need movies to be "Marvel Cinematic Explosion", I don't watch those anyway. But no matter how good or bad the movie is, time was spent making it, which means people should be compensated. If an artist chooses to share their work for free or on a service that uses ads to monetize their work, then great, that's what they wanted. But you don't have to be a greedy capitalist pig to want to be able to eat from your art.
Where do you get pirated copies if no one buys it?
I pirated three copies of Starship Troopes and I'll download it again just out of pure spite.
I got into 3D printing so I could pirate copy physical object.
I like supporting my creators. I don't pirate music, because Bandcamp is a thing, and I don't pirate video games because GoG is a thing. I also subscribe to Patreon and the like.
What I don't like is giving my money to shitty companies that try to tell me how I am allowed to manage/retain/consume that media.