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Right versus pragmatic
- angersock 11y agoThe quote from Andy Ihnatko repeats a common meme: The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content illegally is their smug sense of entitlement Framing it as an issue of entitlement is not very good. A lot of folks who pirate can't afford entertainment otherwise, and to tell folks who, say, are working multiple jobs and who have shitty healthcare and whatnot that they're "entitled* is just dickish. Moreover, the truly "entitled" behavior being displayed is by the publishers: they promote user-harming DRM, they cripple technologies with things like DHCP, they push spyware onto users' machines, they waste the time of consumers with pointless ads and notices, and so on and so forth. It's just a really bad direction to argue on. A better one is "Hey, this AAA entertainment you are consuming doesn't pay for itself...how can we get you to pay us to make things you want?". Unfortunately, instead, the argument is typically "No artists would ever produce anything without money and oh just ignore the fact that we publishers are fleecing the artists as much as you are". Sigh. On a lighter note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtI3ghO4jZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtI3ghO4jZ8