• MostlyHarmless@programming.devEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      Is it stealing if you don’t pay for the cinema? You don’t own anything new after.

      Is it stealing if you don’t pay for your haircut? You don’t own anything new after.

      Is it stealing if you don’t pay for your car service? You don’t own anything new after.

  • Monologue@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    internet piracy? i never ever would do such a thing, it is illegal. instead i will pay for 5 streaming services and never own anything. remember, you wouldn’t steal a car.

  • somnuz@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The only thing I would (totally naively and magically) wish for is some kind of really well organized and curated time capsule mainly for movies and music preservation.

    I don’t want all the music and movies for myself, I wouldn’t be able to watch/hear it all but I wish for anyone from any time in the future — to have a simple/legal option to just dig anything out, public domain or whatever will work best.

    People have created some amazing gems.

      • somnuz@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Well, yes. This exist — I am really grateful for that, but… This audio library now contains 15M positions. It is a big number, no doubt about it.

        Then, Spotify has over 80M files in the library with around 4M podcasts.

        Estimated existing music amount is unclear but around 90-200M and growing all the time.

        And suddenly 15M is getting somehow small in terms of preserving, and this is with music only.

        With movies I even remember some interviews with Tarantino and Nolan talking about how badly some movies are being mistreated, lost cuts, not even close to proper/safe long time storing, fires, accidents and so on…

  • LovelyA72@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This statement feels so wrong yet also feels so correct. If companies can’t let ppl own what they paid they shouldn’t complain when ppl pirate.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    One might argue that software developers deserve to be paid fairly for their work.

    That argument falls flat, though, when their products include user-hostile misfeatures like performance-ruining DRM and obnoxious in-app advertising, which pirates remove. By including such misfeatures, software companies are basically punishing their customers for not pirating their products.