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
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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