ParsnipWitch @ ParsnipWitch @feddit.de

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Do you give those 40 people back their donation money if you ever close your service? Since in the end, they never got any of the hardware or media they watched over your Plex for their money.

Don't you see the problem in your reasoning? When everyone would just pirate, nobody would be able to get paid. The money that pays the wages for the workers isn't willed into existence, it ultimately comes from the consumer. Bigger studios pay their workers before the project is finished. That money comes from ongoing sales they produced before.

Because the majority of people do not pirate because they truly believe they are doing something morally good. That's laughable.

If it really was about going against the licensing schemes these people would all buy on GoG. Instead they rather pirate the games and use Steam for the rest.

The majority of people pirates stuff because they feel entitled to it and are greedy and because it works and is easy to do. They do not respect those who put the work into the music or the movies or the games.

What makes me so angry about it is the hypocrisy. Since these are often the same people who are virtue signalling about how capitalism is bad since employers are too greedy to pay good wages.

The irony is quite strong in this.

Still people share digital goods indiscriminately, even those which are possible to buy and own.

That's why I am against indiscriminately pirating all digital goods. Because it's morally wrong to have people work for you and then not pay them.

But people aren't just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

What's with the hundreds of thousands of other media that is shared?

Are you against employees getting good wages?

Most people who work on open source projects have a lucrative job and work on Open Source on the side. I also volunteer, but I still need a job that actually pays me as well.

Reading some of the comments here it feels like speaking to little children who believe money magically appears on their account.

So, you would work for free for your employer?

How did your employer pay your salaries? Or did your money perhaps came from those people who actually do pay for in-game currency in your games?

Libraries get money via tax. What people here are arguing for is that others should work for them or free. Because game studios, for example, are overwhelmingly not paid via tax money. They are depending on people buying their software. And many software has ongoing costs.

That doesn't answer my questions.

No, actually I never was in that situation. Is there another incident like that apart from Sony and the Discovery channel?

And how does that mean all digital products are now okay to pirate?

This seems like it's very specific to that one incident. But people try to use it on all digital products.

By this logic no services should be paid. Are you really just hung up on the word "stealing"? It is wrong to go against an agreement or to take the work of others and not pay for it simply because it's easy to do that when the work isn't tangible.

Are people really that fucked up today?

People are pirating products that can be purchased and owned.

Why don't you just gift away your software than? That's an honest question. You obviously aren't expecting to be paid for it, do you think in general developers shouldn't earn money with software or is it just you?

And the money grows on trees? You do realise that the money comes from people purchasing the product?

Slower software because of DRM is an issue for, I estimate, perhaps 1 % of the software that is pirated on a regular basis. If even that.

The few seconds of a screen you "have to wait through", no, I do not think that justifies not paying for an entire movie.

A more honest analogy for the situation was that there are very few incidents of circuses doing that and now people demand it's morally justified to get free entrance to every circus, concert, fair, museum, ....