Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑

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[+] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

You guys are deranged... Every movie you download had huge amounts of work behind it, those people need money too.

Sure, a studio makes hundreds of millions making a shitty marvel movie, but it does still legitimately cost them tens of millions to make - they just make revolting middle of the road crap so it sells to idiots everywhere.

That's why there's no good movies any more - it's too risky to tell a good story, now that we're all pirating them

The instant there's no money in it, you'll see there will be no movies made (and that's precisely why the last 20 years of movies have generally been rubbish).

The studios are fine, and by all means steal Deadpool 53 or whatever off them, but don't pretend you're being noble in the process.

At least own up that it's theft.

Similarly - It takes real skill and experience to make and record music (and if anything that's gotten a while lot cheaper than it used to be!), but the artists that aren't in the radio would be gutted to hear your downloading it.

That's also why merch is so important to a bands bottom line - it's got away less middle men in the line taking a cut

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@flambonkscious @RedCanasta And the people who made that work earn approximately 0.1% of what you pay for the work. The other 99.9% goes to shareholders. Wouldn't it make more sense to give the workers 100%, or even 10% of the normal price?

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So I agree with piracy, however one thing to keep in mind is that our economy and productivity are only in existence because of the land and equipment (as well as the labor) that it takes to produce them.

If 100% of income went to the workers, there's nothing to pay for equipment and land that is also necessary for production. Ugly as capitalism is, the end result is a productive economy. A lot of the wealth is captured in land and equipment.

Now, you can argue that the workers should own the land and means of production. That I could agree with. But you simply can't produce anything without paying for land and equipment plus labor.

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Feweroptions This is the story that capitalists tell you to justify why it's okay for them to steal your money.

Land costs nothing, and equipment is just someone else's labour.

Do note that if a manager or even a CEO does management work, that's still work and should be rewarded as such.

Also note that CEOs and shareholders are massively overpaid in today's society. If one person were to not pay them, they'd still be massively overpaid.

[–] Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Land has value, and thus comes with a price. Equipment doesn't spring forward from creativity and hard work alone - it also requires materials, and besides that, you have to pay for people's innovation and hard work when buying equipment.

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