• Soup@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Consumers: “But I wanna watch this show! I’ll literally die without it, you don’t understaaaaaand!”

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        If piracy actually deprived IP owners of money I’d being torrenting all day every day until they were broke lmao

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          It deprives them of money if people would have paid otherwise. It generally doesn’t though, because most people will just pay up. If people are able to be convinced to pirate instead, they’d lose money from that effect. (It wouldn’t cost them money, but it would lose them money they could have made.)

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            I read it as “torrent isn’t stealing, but if it was id do it even harder because those guys suck”.

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        Right? I know the hard shit is hard and I’m not going to make demands for it, but I’m getting real tired of the fact that I get more hate for telling people they shouldn’t reward the bad behaviour of evil people than the evil people get.