I was thinking the other day that we no longer see bugs around the house I grew up in. When I was a kid my house was always full of bugs, we live next to a protected natural area, so it was impossible to keep them out. Anyways, I’ve always loved bugs so they were welcome. I moved out and whenever I go there are no animals to be seen. I can’t even hear birds or see iguanas walking around. It’s so disturbing.
I can smell them like at a 1m distance. They smell bad. The first time I realized what they smell like, I took a bite of a muffin that I left on the counter. I tasted the muffin and another bad flavor so I looked and it had ants. From that moment I could smell them, not because I couldn’t smell them before but because now I knew what they smelled like.
yeha, piracy isn’t about buying things. You keep bringing up that ultra specific scenario, again using a specific scenario to defend something more general. Do you think piracy is about buying things and then sharing with friends? No. It is about buying something once and distributing it massively to millions of people you don’t even know, who can probably afford the content. For some peiple it is about just downloading content for free.
How much people have a home server that costs thousands of dollars with tens of terabytes to download all the movies they want and then sell a subscription to their NAS, or just share that for free to people who can totally afford paying for a streaming service.
How much people in developing countries pay for illegal streaming boxes that have a return of investment of around 4 years in order to avoid paying for streaming services?
How much people could totally afford one month of a streaming service to watch a series, but instead pirate it?
If you think piracy is about sharing movies with friends, you live in a fairytale.
I pirate movies, I know why I do it and it isn’t ethical at all. I do it because I don’t want to give my money to streaming services. But I don’t lie to myself about what I’m doing. Am I helping someone who really can’t afford the movie? Sure, but I’m mostlikely sharing it with someone like me.
You’re delusional man. Creating information costs a lot of money. Do you think it takes the same amount of investment to create a 10gb file of random bytes as a 10gb file that contains a movie with actors?
Imagine if only a single person had to buy your movie in order for everyone to watch it. Wherevs the logic in that?
The only reason why the industry is surviving is because most people understand that they need to pay for the entertainment they consume. So yeha, paying customers are actually the only reason you get to pirate movies, because if everyone had your same mindset, the industry would be dead.
And I pirate movies too, I’m just not in denial with reality.
If I had to present this as an anti-humor joke:
I’ll have H2O.
I’ll have H2O… also.
The water was very refreshing.
They never hacked your computer, you agreed to everything. So what’s the problem then? It’s just a file that can be shared.
I’m not talking only about you. I’m talking about how senseless the “I can share files with anyone” is. If that were true, companies could really fuck their customers, but thankfully it isn’t logical, thus it is illegal.
Imagine if a single person could buy a movie and then place it in their Facebook to share with their friends. And then their friends share with their friends. And so on… because it’s just a file, nobody is stealing, copying information isn’t stealing! … Who would make a movie under those conditions?
If you want to own the movie, you need to buy a real copy. If you are buying a digital copy, you do not own the movie. There is already a solution for your problem, real copies.
So sure, if you want a bunch of industries to die, keep believing and convincing others of that.
The only reason you can watch your pirated movie is the fact that other people actually pay for the content. So you’re really stealing from people who now have to pay more to access the content.
Well, they just saw a file in your phone and were like “it’s a file, so this isn’t stealing because we’re duplicating the information”.
Black - biology? What the fuck is wrong with you.
He’s clearly talking about piracy in general. The point being that just because something is a file, it doesn’t mean it isn’t intellectual property.
I do agree that in some scenarios piracy is fighting bad actors, like in this case, but it isn’t a generalized rule, piracy also has a bad side.
So this guy comes here and defends the general idea of piracy based on a single instance in which it is actually good, which is just a fallacy.
So you don’t mind when companies share files with your personal data?
Alabama Primes.
Fun fact, in Spanish “prime numbers” is “números primos”. Primos can also mean cousins. So yeha, today I found that there are sexy cousin numbers. And apparently there are also the cousin cousin numbers.
Dang, I just realized my FireTV does PGS without burning. Why do people always add embedded ASS subs if they require burningggg?
Oh ok, that sucks :(
I wonder how streaming services offer the ASS-like (hehe) subs without the burning delays.
It’s that time of the day in which I go to r34 to confirm that the awful things I imagined have been imagined before.
So… why is this even being researched? I’m sure there’s a good reason… please tell me there s a good reason.
You wouldn’t download a girlfriend.
… wait, yes, yes you would.
Don’t worry guys, the billionaires already built their bunkers and their space ships! Just as planned.