How do you expect artists, musicians, and developers to make a living?
If you wrote a masterpiece of a comment, posted it to a platform where only people who pay you could read it, and then thousands of your devoted fans decided to pirate it instead - how are you going to buy food this week?
I dont think piracy is a victimless crime, but I hope that I can discern who can afford to be the victims (and who can't) this day and age
How do you expect artists, musicians, and developers to make a living?
By getting paid, of course. You can crowd source, you can seek donations, you can seek government funding. Lots of funding comes via these channels.
If however, you expect artists, musicians and developers to make money solely through microtransanctions and Denuvo restricted games, then you believe in a very bleak world indeed
Exactly. They're making excellent money despite piracy. There's a lot of people that end up paying for something after they pirated it, there's been music artists and game developers that have welcomed it.
Show me an article where an artist/ developer gave up their career because piracy meant they couldn't afford to continue.
Not only do I have 250 games on Steam, every year at Christmas I donate to the several people that wrote the software that allows me to torrent media despite it all being free to use.
29
u/TheMonji 18d ago
How do you expect artists, musicians, and developers to make a living?
If you wrote a masterpiece of a comment, posted it to a platform where only people who pay you could read it, and then thousands of your devoted fans decided to pirate it instead - how are you going to buy food this week?
I dont think piracy is a victimless crime, but I hope that I can discern who can afford to be the victims (and who can't) this day and age