petit bourgeois small business owner tbh. i'm not gonna cry if someone pirates stardew valley which has sold 10 million copies. also study after study has shown that piracy of indie games leads to wider exposure and many people who pirate stuff to try it out eventually go on to buy it. Radiohead released their 2007 album "In Rainbows" as a "pay what you want" (so you could pay zero, if you wanted to) and they still made plenty of money off of it. I'm not convinced piracy hurts the "indie" small business owner that much. Public libraries have never hurt fiction authors' sales. How many people have borrowed a good book from the library and then gone on to buy their own copy? Happens all the time.
I mean yeah companies that call themselves indie cuz they have less than 50 employees are petite bourg, but if we’re talking like a garage band or some dude making a pixel art platformer in his basement, those guys are more like Lumpen Prole hustlers.
yeah that's a good point, i'd agree with that distinction
This argument has always had holes in it. It’s not about who possess the original copy, it’s that whoever made the original copy isn’t being compensated for the work of creating it when someone uses a copy of it. You’re still getting utility out of the copy you have, so the argument is you owe something to the person who’s labor generated the original that the copy was made from.
Except in a majority of cases that person is a wage- worker whose labor has already been paid for
I think it depends on the circumstances. A couple years ago, I drew a picture of my friend's fursona, and they tipped me the equivalent of about $30 so I could afford groceries. I shared it among friends, but otherwise kept it private. Someone else saved the picture, cropped out my signature, and then tried to use it as a cover to sell their self-published (fetish) ebook for $30, and passing it off as their own work.
Honestly, I was more upset about the fact that they were portraying my friend's character as a male crossdresser, when they're actually transfem and had recently come out as such when I drew the image for them (which was a celebration of that fact). So, like, I'm all for piracy, but I think the line really should be drawn at taking someone else's personal pictures and trying to profit off them by claiming them as your own.
Plus if they wanted a book cover, I would have been up for drawing something for them if they tipped me so I could pay for food/contribute to that month's rent :yea:
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Broke: Piracy is bad and hurts people
Woke: Piracy doesn't hurt anyone
Bespoke: Piracy hurts people, so use it to hurt the corporations who deserve it
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petit bourgeois small business owner tbh. i'm not gonna cry if someone pirates stardew valley which has sold 10 million copies. also study after study has shown that piracy of indie games leads to wider exposure and many people who pirate stuff to try it out eventually go on to buy it. Radiohead released their 2007 album "In Rainbows" as a "pay what you want" (so you could pay zero, if you wanted to) and they still made plenty of money off of it. I'm not convinced piracy hurts the "indie" small business owner that much. Public libraries have never hurt fiction authors' sales. How many people have borrowed a good book from the library and then gone on to buy their own copy? Happens all the time.
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yeah that's a good point, i'd agree with that distinction
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fair
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Except in a majority of cases that person is a wage- worker whose labor has already been paid for
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I think it depends on the circumstances. A couple years ago, I drew a picture of my friend's fursona, and they tipped me the equivalent of about $30 so I could afford groceries. I shared it among friends, but otherwise kept it private. Someone else saved the picture, cropped out my signature, and then tried to use it as a cover to sell their self-published (fetish) ebook for $30, and passing it off as their own work.
Honestly, I was more upset about the fact that they were portraying my friend's character as a male crossdresser, when they're actually transfem and had recently come out as such when I drew the image for them (which was a celebration of that fact). So, like, I'm all for piracy, but I think the line really should be drawn at taking someone else's personal pictures and trying to profit off them by claiming them as your own.
Plus if they wanted a book cover, I would have been up for drawing something for them if they tipped me so I could pay for food/contribute to that month's rent :yea:
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