• @RamblingPanda
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    5 months ago

    Instead you could stop making shitty movies and reheating successful recipes. And stop inventing three new streaming services every week.

    What about a meta streaming service. One subscription for everything and companies get paid by the share of the views their shoes shows (I’m not that interested in the shoes to be honest) had. Maybe make your own fronts for your services if you insist, but everything is accessible through one subscription.

    I’m so tired of getting shit on by corporations to later read I’m the problem. People are sick of this shit. Stop being assholes and people will happily pay for your content! I want to pay for things I enjoy, but I just cancelled Netflix because they suck so fucking hard.

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      45 months ago

      Ugh, I’m really pissed. Please, content producers. Look in the mirrors and check if you are the assholes. You might be surprised by what you see.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      25 months ago

      Not sure I get the “You make a bad product so I feel justified in stealing it” argument.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          25 months ago

          So it’s okay to keep a rental car because you don’t own it and it’s therefore not stealing?

          • @[email protected]
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            45 months ago

            It’s ok to make a 1:1 copy of the rental car without depriving the company of the car in any way

            • AFK BRB Chocolate
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              25 months ago

              So a writer spends a year of his life writing a book with the idea that he can sell copies for $15 each so that, if he sells enough copies, he can make that year’s time worthwhile. But you think it’s okay to just make a copy for free since he still has his original?

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                Yes. I was never going to buy it anyway. He didn’t lose anything. At least this way, his art is consumed and discussed, potentially generating a sale. BTW, you are absolutely wasting your time here with me. I obviously have a very different perspective on this than you do. You’ll have to either accept that, or become increasingly frustrated that your arguments fall flat with me

                Edited because I realized I wasn’t in the piracy community

                • AFK BRB Chocolate
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                  25 months ago

                  At least now we’ve gotten to the common understanding that it is theft, but you just don’t care. I personally think copyright laws have been good for our society because they’ve allowed people to live off of creating art. You obviously have a different view.

                  I’m not at all frustrated by the conversation - it’s like discussing car registration or driver’s licenses with a SovCit. In fact, it’s pretty much exactly like that. It’s interesting for me to see how you rationalize your view, but I don’t expect you to change your mind.

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        55 months ago

        They didn’t argue the product (the content on streaming platforms) was bad, they argued the only legal ways you can get the product are not acceptable.

        Therefore yes, it becomes ok in my book to violate copyright (which does not equate to stealing, the owner hasn’t lost the original).

        As soon as I can have a choice of service that has virtually all of the content (like you do with music, or groceries), and I can pick the storefront based on its usability and cost rather than its catalogue, piracy numbers will go right down. Because it becomes less of a hassle to get it legally rather than pirate.

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          25 months ago

          They didn’t argue the product (the content on streaming platforms) was bad,

          Really? How do you interpret the very first sentence?

          Instead you could stop making shitty movies and reheating successful recipes. And stop inventing three new streaming services every week.

          That seems to be saying it’s bad to me.

          they argued the only legal ways you can get the product are not acceptable.

          You know what I do when a product I want is unacceptably expensive or whatever? I don’t buy it. It’s not like we’re talking about food or medicine. This is all lame rationalization.

        • @RamblingPanda
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          25 months ago

          I did both to be honest. And I don’t want to pirate media, I’m fine with sane pricing for good quality. It’s just that currently they focus on neither, so I’m just stopping to give them money.

      • @RamblingPanda
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        45 months ago

        That’s because I didn’t make that argument. Exactly the opposite to be honest.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          15 months ago

          Then what did you mean by the first sentence?

          Instead you could stop making shitty movies and reheating successful recipes.

          • @RamblingPanda
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            45 months ago

            That all studios do the last few years is remakes and sequels and it’s boring as hell.

            How can you understand that sentence as a call for piracy?

            • @[email protected]
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              25 months ago

              Well I for one have not seen Batman’s or Spiderman’s origin story enough times yet. Can I get 3 more takes each please slowly starts banging head off monitor

            • AFK BRB Chocolate
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              15 months ago

              Look at the title of this thread and then the first sentence of your comment. How else should it be read?

              • @RamblingPanda
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                15 months ago

                Still no, sorry. We seem to have very different understandings of those things.