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Is Piracy protest?

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It can be. I used to be a leecher and wouldnt have considered that to be a protest, more of a bystander finding a favorable solution. Ive since improved my VPN and file management setup and now I seed all torrents indefinitely. I also share my library with any friends and family who ask.

The message I'm trying to send is "Fuck you media giants with all of the added burdens of trying to legally stream things. Prices keep going up, VPNs are blocked and content is randomly removed. And fuck the password sharing crackdowns. I will just share the media directly with those who want to own it (via torrents) or stream it (via Plex or Jellyfin)"

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semisol 1y ago

The only problem imo is when it actively reduces sales.

But if people that wouldn’t have bought it anyway pirate it: who cares? you get free publicity at least

ABH3PO 1y ago

My problem is I can't even buy it anymore, even if I do, there are bunch of "legalities" about the things I can do with the content I bought. Let alone, there's hardly CD/DVD drives left to play content. Why can't I get the files legally on my pen drive? Or hard disk?

It's very very stupid.

Only option for most people is to buy subscription services and hope to god they have the content they wish to consume. Otherwise they only consume what is being shoved down their throats.

I refuse to comply to this stupidity.

semisol 1y ago

Again, falls under the last one: you wouldn’t have earned from it anyway, so why care about piracy (as a publisher)?

Piracy is often either a pricing or product issue. They can’t afford it so they won’t buy it anyway, or you are offering the product in a way that they don’t want

sudocarlos 1y ago

Yea, i don't like that my piracy might be sending the message that "no one wants to pay for this content". My problem is that the content is locked to platforms and access is fully permissioned.

semisol 1y ago

It’s kind of their right to do whatever. Though it is a shitty move.

Piracy is fine as long as it doesn’t actively try to make less people pay for that content: people pirating due to a subscription model would have never paid anyone