If I steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus,
but if I just copy it
there’s one for each of us!
But the creator can’t afford a bike now that you copied instead of buying. So kinda bad analogy.
I pirate because it’s more convenience than having 10+ separate streaming apps, but I also don’t pretend that the monetary losses from piracy don’t trickle down.
I just don’t care. Offer me a good service please, and I’ll pay.
You can support creative people directly. Acting like the money paid to Netflix is trickling down to them is laughable.
It does. The streaming services won’t order more seasons etc if ratings are shit. That new season is lots of money for the people working, from set hands to camera men, writers etc.
That said, I’ve not subscribed to any service since 2013 because none works like, say, Spotify.
Sometimes it’s really hard to do that though. Like, with most Japanese animation studios you can only buy cels from their site, it’s often all in Japanese and some studios don’t even have that.
Between marketing, producers, distribution and everything it’s become pretty damn hard to actually give the money to who you want.
I like to think this implies that people are coming into your store and cloning the bicycles