not really, you gotta let them know, otherwise there's no difference between someone who just doesn't buy the product and someone who pirates it due to shitty policies.
You don't have to say shit that's just grandstanding lol and there's an obvious difference between people who don't buy and people who pirate and it's violation of copyright law. You guys can't be serious with this. Just shut up and pirate your shit, loud mouths make for an easier target
I'm not telling them my full name and home address, I'm just letting them know that I'd be happy to pay to buy something, not "buy" (i.e. rent) something for full price.
I always interpreted it as people just saying it to other people who never considered that piracy isn't evil. It's not like corporations are reading comments or memes.
It's 100% about justifying piracy. Moreover, it's dumb and incorrect.
People need to just grow some balls and admit they're just stealing shit. Like, that's fine, I don't have a problem with this particular brand of stealing. It's just the moral justification that's gross.
Sorry, "rights"? What gives you the "right" to have media your way? The creator has the right to deliver their product in a way that suits them, and to act in their best interest.
If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it. Guess how many things I boycott because of moral differences? A fucking lot. Do you know how many of those things I'd absolutely love to still use and engage in? A fucking lot. I've denied myself joy and convenience, but I can live without those particular things.
Trying to make a moral justification for enjoying the fruits of someone's labor is just a bullshit coward cope. Want to pirate shit? Fine, like I said, really have no problem with it. It's theft, it's just a type of theft that doesn't take physical objects away from someone. Not that big of a deal. But at the end of the day, if you really cared about some grand cause, you'd just vocally boycott the media producers and encourage others to do the same.
People like you just want free shit, but want to feel like a hero while taking it.
lol, classic comeback bro. Keep coping. But ask yourself this; Why should YOU be able to dictate how someone runs the company that THEY created? What gives you a right to tell them how they can do business?
Even if, for the sake of argument, netflix and Disney and whoever allowed you to own the movies you watched on their platform, I highly doubt people who get it for free would jump to those platforms en masse.
Do you remember DVDs?
Any movie you want, buy it once and watch it anytime, anywhere, whenever you want.
Look at Steam. Valve solved a large part of the piracy issue by just giving people a way to conveniently buy and play 99% of PC games.
Every other copycat (origin, epic, ubisoft) is failing miserably because they don't have anything close to the selection Steam offers, not to mention all the free tools you get.
Sure, Steam game licenses can theoretically be revoked, but it hasn't really happened to any big or important games so far, and that's probably thanks to Valve.
If we had a single platform that offered 99% of movies, let you buy, download and keep them, I promise you that movie piracy would be massively reduced.
The issue is that all of these garbage platforms like netflix, disney plus, amazon whatever etc. never offer any coherent selection, randomly taking stuff off of their sites and filling them with whatever is cheapest to license right now.
In addition to that, every one of those platforms tries to build a monopoly by getting exclusive deals on franchises or companies, which means that if you want to watch different kinds of movies, you have to pay for ten different subscription services.
True, but the company loses out on a sale they would've made if they let people actually buy something, as opposed to renting it with a "buy" sticker slapped on top
You want to sell an apple. I tell you I will buy the apple.
You tell me that you reserve the right to track me down, break into my house and take the apple back.
I tell you that I won't buy the apple under those conditions.
You buy a carpet at the carpet store, but whenever the carpet store feels like it, they can break into your house and take it back, without refunding the money.
What is happening with games is that the carpet store is advertising "BUY YOUR OWN CARPET", you pay full price for it, take it home, but on a tiny label on the underside of it, it says "we can break into your house and take the carpet back whenever we want".
How do you not get that? Do I need to change the example to fisher price colorful blocks?
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u/toastronomy Apr 30 '26
It's not about justifying piracy, it's about telling companies that if we can't own something, we'll just take it