• 0xDEnglish
    910·
    11 days ago

    You’re really spending a lot of energy calling piracy not piracy.

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      75·
      11 days ago

      Would you call it piracy to yank out the ad insert from a free newspaper and throw it into the trash without looking at it? Because that’s the exact analog from the non-digital world. Just because the mode of payment changes with the technical abilities of the medium doesn’t change that.

        • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          24·
          11 days ago

          Just because the mode of payment changes with the technical abilities of the medium doesn’t change that.

          • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
            31·
            11 days ago

            Of course it does, the part where the content creator doesn’t get paid and is supposed to according to the rules of the platform is the part where it’s piracy.

      • 0xDEnglish
        53·
        11 days ago

        If you show me how that’s physically possible I will concede your point, but until then: No, that’s not nearly the same. You can’t just selectively block physical ads.

        While the comparison may make sense when not thinking it through, print is a completely different medium than digital where comparisons only make limited sense. In this one they don’t at all.

        Physical media does not track views (directly) or click through numbers, for example.