• @BraBraBra@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    Entirely besides the point. As for the last point, that’s pretty funny😂 if you’re pirating it it literally makes no difference.

    • Uriel-238
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      31 year ago

      The difference is, your culture is not getting out there.

      The reason we all know Joffrey is a git of a king and the Red Wedding was a day to call in sick is because the GoT series was massively pirated and HBO ignored it. It also why we had a decade of gratuitous boobs on television. It also accounted for HBO being stupendously rich for a while.

      It’s kinda like depending on the wind for sailing, your crew on deck are going to be hot because there isn’t much breeze. The more you tap consumption of your art for money, the narrower the gateway and the less it becomes culture, until you end up like Prince (the musician) with most of your work locked away in a vault, unknown to anyone.

      But you seem like a the law’s the law sort of fellow, and would be simping for the state even as it was torturing your fellow statesmen.

      • @BraBraBra@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        GOT wasn’t funded through culture. Also they most certainly didn’t ignore it, they just failed to stop it.

        Do my a favor and stick your assumptions up your mother’s asshole. I’m a pirate, I just don’t have any delusions about what it is. I’m not so egotistical that I need to convince myself that it’s not stealing just because I’m doing it.

        • Uriel-238
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          11 year ago

          I find your pirate cred dubious. You came onto a pirate thread to throw shade, which smacks to me of Christian vigilantes wandering into a gay bar to start trouble. Or a guy online compelled to send his dick-pic to women online for internal insecurities he can’t consciously fathom.

          You’re not here to protest the problems with stealing, not in the current economic clime. You’re here because you need to shit on others, and are trying to justify it by opposing piracy when even the IP holders know it’s losing game that only hurts themselves. It’s the legal firms they’ve tapped who are over eager to show they’re earning their pay.

          You want to evade my assumptions, go crawl back into your hole, or do some proper fucking research. (Start here, and enjoy.).

          But so long as you’re raising a stink and I’m nearby, you’re going to have to choke on the toxic vitriol of my ideology. I won’t suffer your moralizing in silence.

          • @BraBraBra@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            The mere notion that piracy might be stealing sends you into a paragraphs long tirade. Pretty stupid. I simply don’t care that it’s stealing.

            • Uriel-238
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              21 year ago

              Piracy is always stealing. Y’all can keep trying to spin it if it helps, but its pure copium.

              So you’re just being equivocal and trolling?

              • @BraBraBra@lemmy.world
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                11 year ago

                Simply stating the obvious. You still seem to be under the impression that I’m attacking piracy lmfao… I’m just calling it what it is. I endorse any kind of piracy, I am simply under no delusion that it’s moral or not stealing.

                • Uriel-238
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                  11 year ago

                  ELI5 then. How is it obvious that piracy is stealing? How is piracy not moral?

                  • @BraBraBra@lemmy.world
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                    11 year ago

                    Taking something that does not belong to you. Even if you disagree with business practices, that does not give you right to a product.