I mean, it’s not
It’s piracy, a different crime
A crime I love committing babyyyyyyyyyy
Yeah, when you steal something from someone then he does not have it anymore. With indefinitely replicable virtual goods that is not the case.
… therefore we need to build and violently enforce a legal regime to ensure that content profiteers can extract 100% profit from every transaction?
If I steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus,
but if I just copy it
there’s one for each of us!
I like to think this implies that people are coming into your store and cloning the bicycles
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.
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.
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.
If I steal food from the store, I’m both robbing the store, and a community that would have paid good money for that food.
If I go to the store and magically have the items on the shelves be duplicated into my cart, and I don’t have to pay for them. That is not a crime that is a miracle
Consider this. (big chain) Stores already steal from the community via profits they make.
“Property is theft!” ~ EA
‘I wonder who this ship belongs to anyway,’ said Arthur.
‘Me,’ said Zaphod.
‘No. Who it really belongs to.’
‘Really me,’ insisted Zaphod. ‘Look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, okay?’
Just a few days ago I was re-reading the Restaurant at the end of the universe, and was going to try and look up this quote before reading the comments. I’ve really got to get around to reading the rest of the books by Douglas Adams, as I loved his hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy series.
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to remove a man’s mind, will, and personality, is the power of life and death, and that it makes a man a slave. It is murder. Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?
Also if buying isn’t owning than wtf did I buy. In any other time period this corporate shit would be considered a scam.
You didn’t buy anything, we rent now…
Landlords everywhere, even on the internet… It’s disgusting. They get to own, we get to borrow…
So to OP, it’s still stealing as they own everything, we just rent. Fucking scam for sure :(
At the risk of sounding like a landlord here, there are far wealthier people to be disgusted by.
If you “buy” a massage you don’t then own a massage. Lol. Doesn’t matter what time period.
Services like massages are paying directly for someone’s active labor, buying a book, a song, or an (offline) game is one a time transaction for an already completed work
What you’re paying for when there’s a license or other kind of agreement is more akin to a service. Like permission to use it, renting it. Paying for labor is just renting someone’s body and skills. The seller making the offer gets to determine the terms, and then you have just as much power to walk away.