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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
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OK hear me out though. If you are just purchasing used movies at discount prices, the of creator never gets that money anyway, so pirating has 0 effect on that. However I can understand owning the physical media , and some stuff is getting harder to find torrents of. But I just wanted to make the point.
And if youre buying from artists anyway, everyone is better off if you pirate it then privately send them money as a donation. Or buy from bandcamp.
Unless the people before you purchased them rather than pirated, as they also expected re-sale value.
Sure it benefits the reseller, I suppose. But it isnt helping the creator. Not that it matters a whole lot for big box movies