Don't get me wrong: I pay for my indie games and don't have the time for the so-called "triple-AAA" crap.
But the money I'd pay to Netflix or Spotify won't actually go to the artists who worked on the stuff. That's just not how this works.
Most imortantly: I don't want to shame anyone for pay/not paying, as I usually don't know their financial situtation.
And yet: Netflix prevents me from recording any of their shows and sharing the recording with my friends and family.
Great! Let's do that for any type of media!
When I steal a shoe, the shoe can't besold anymore, because I have it. If I pirate a game, is there one less copy that steam can sell?
Piracy is categorically something else than stealing. Have you even read the original post?
Edit: If you really follow your logic strand, you would have to reach the conclusion that Sony stole content from their users.
Edit2:
No, I never said anything of the sort.
This u?
The origins of any movie you pirate come from theft, full stop.
We're literally talking about piracy, so yes lmao
So, according to you, piracy is stealing, because it has to be stolen at some point. And the reason that it must be stolen is because it is connected to piracy.
Don't act surprised if you're downvoted, if you present your circular logic this plainly.
When you're paying, you're not buying the fuel nor are the salaries directly affected by one person is paying for riding a train.
What you're describing is called "marginal cost" and reducing this is the reason why the economics of any large scale business is actually working. You could argue with these marginal costs, but you'd be entering a completely different model/domain of economics. And no one uses this model which is abstract/non-abstract in any aspect that happens to make your point valid.
So you just dmit that you assume everything is stolen. That's motivated reasoning, buddy.
Counter question: Do you think that running libraries is theft?
Only if the rides are a scarce resource. Which they aren't. Nothing that some customer could have bought is removed by jumping a turnstyle.
The origins of any movie you pirate come from theft, full stop.
Rips do exist, ya know?
Ok, then make the trains a public service, collect taxes for it and make puplic transport free.
Analogous to the whole "piracy" discourse: Manage more media like libraries.
I beg to differ. You utter fool! You created a comment section yourself on lemmy and you are clearly wrong about everything!
You take the mean of 1 and 9 which is 4.5!
/j