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If piracy is this common, why should people be ashamed to admit they do it? >It's sad that it's come to this, but too many selfish people have spoiled it for e

by Retra 11y ago

If piracy is this common, why should people be ashamed to admit they do it? >It's sad that it's come to this, but too many selfish people have spoiled it for everyone now. This statement applies both ways. Human culture is a necessity. Humans are social animals. If my friends and family literally talk about Game of Thrones or Star Wars every day, do you think I'm just going to voluntarily exclude myself from my own community in order to protect the wealth of some small cabal halfway across the world? Of course not. That's not a tide you want to fight against, no matter how much you might want to trivialize the costs.

Silhouette 11y ago
If my friends and family literally talk about Game of Thrones or Star Wars every day, do you think I'm just going to voluntarily exclude myself from my own community in order to protect the wealth of some small cabal halfway across the world? If something is so good that your friends and family literally talk about it every day and you'd feel left out if you didn't participate, is it asking too much to actually buy it and support those who make it? A show like GoT has thousands of people involved in making it, many of them working on it full time for months. Paying for it legitimately is not just paying for "some small cabal halfway across the world". If recent rumours are to be believed, even the mighty GoT is now facing an abbreviated ending because while it's been successful it's also been extremely expensive to make. This suggests that despite the optimistic spin the show's producers have often put on being so widely pirated, it still isn't getting enough actual financial support to keep going with full 10-episode seasons, which would be a real shame for all the fans who do pay for it.
- amelius 11y ago
  > If something is so good that your friends and family literally talk about it every day and you'd feel left out if you didn't participate [...] A show like GoT has thousands of people involved in making it Perhaps this is what should stop. I don't want big corporations determining my culture for me. And if they do, perhaps they should accept being pirated.
  - Silhouette 11y ago
    This argument makes no sense to me. Either you do enjoy something and want to participate in the culture built around it, in which case you can pay for it and support those who create it, or you don't, in which case why would you want to pirate it?

by Retra 11y ago

Silhouette 11y ago

If my friends and family literally talk about Game of Thrones or Star Wars every day, do you think I'm just going to voluntarily exclude myself from my own community in order to protect the wealth of some small cabal halfway across the world? If something is so good that your friends and family literally talk about it every day and you'd feel left out if you didn't participate, is it asking too much to actually buy it and support those who make it? A show like GoT has thousands of people involved in making it, many of them working on it full time for months. Paying for it legitimately is not just paying for "some small cabal halfway across the world". If recent rumours are to be believed, even the mighty GoT is now facing an abbreviated ending because while it's been successful it's also been extremely expensive to make. This suggests that despite the optimistic spin the show's producers have often put on being so widely pirated, it still isn't getting enough actual financial support to keep going with full 10-episode seasons, which would be a real shame for all the fans who do pay for it.

amelius 11y ago
> If something is so good that your friends and family literally talk about it every day and you'd feel left out if you didn't participate [...] A show like GoT has thousands of people involved in making it Perhaps this is what should stop. I don't want big corporations determining my culture for me. And if they do, perhaps they should accept being pirated.
- Silhouette 11y ago
  This argument makes no sense to me. Either you do enjoy something and want to participate in the culture built around it, in which case you can pay for it and support those who create it, or you don't, in which case why would you want to pirate it?