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I think the issue here is that culture should on some level be free. This is why libraries are free. Personally, I want to financially support media creators,

I think the issue here is that culture should on some level be free. This is why libraries are free. Personally, I want to financially support media creators, but every time I get a forced prereel commercial, or Hulu inserts ads in a service I pay for, I make a mental note to care a little less. Every time I’m region restricted, I make a mental note. Every time my browser widevine plugin breaks and I can’t watch something, I make a mental note. Essentially every time I witness a dark pattern, I realize this is about control. Not fairness. Fuck them. If they wanna play games, I’ll play games. And I’ll win, because I’m better at it than they are. I would be happy to pay some cryptocurrency directly to an artist for the production of media. I could care less about the distributors though.

kranner 7y ago
> I think the issue here is that culture should on some level be free. This is why libraries are free. Should software be free as well then? It seems to me it should fit the definition of culture, and the economics of e.g. a game seem similar to the economics of making a movie.
- papln 7y ago
  Everything should be free but I should still get my salary.
bryanlarsen 7y ago
Be careful of what you wish for. Disney is a creator, and soon many people will be paying them money directly, cutting out existing distribution middlemen, letting a single company control a very large portion of American media.
- danaris 7y ago
  "Disney" is not the artist. Artists are human beings. Disney is a megacorporation that hires many individual artists. Now, it's true that it takes many individual artists working together to make a major motion picture of any kind, but that doesn't change the fact that there are so many layers of middlemen between your money and the actual artists that saying that "giving Disney your money" is giving your money to the artists is....at best a gross oversimplification, and at worst outright false.
fyfy18 7y ago
This isn't a bad idea. If the production of the show has already been funded, then theoretically Disney can charge less for the distribution rights. The problem is they won't do that though, they'll just pocket the extra. Bit of a tangent, but this is one of the major failings of our current economic model IMO - it is perfectly acceptable, even encouraged (because shareholders need profits), for companies to milk consumers for all they can.

kranner 7y ago

> I think the issue here is that culture should on some level be free. This is why libraries are free. Should software be free as well then? It seems to me it should fit the definition of culture, and the economics of e.g. a game seem similar to the economics of making a movie.

papln 7y ago
Everything should be free but I should still get my salary.

bryanlarsen 7y ago

Be careful of what you wish for. Disney is a creator, and soon many people will be paying them money directly, cutting out existing distribution middlemen, letting a single company control a very large portion of American media.

danaris 7y ago
"Disney" is not the artist. Artists are human beings. Disney is a megacorporation that hires many individual artists. Now, it's true that it takes many individual artists working together to make a major motion picture of any kind, but that doesn't change the fact that there are so many layers of middlemen between your money and the actual artists that saying that "giving Disney your money" is giving your money to the artists is....at best a gross oversimplification, and at worst outright false.

fyfy18 7y ago

This isn't a bad idea. If the production of the show has already been funded, then theoretically Disney can charge less for the distribution rights. The problem is they won't do that though, they'll just pocket the extra. Bit of a tangent, but this is one of the major failings of our current economic model IMO - it is perfectly acceptable, even encouraged (because shareholders need profits), for companies to milk consumers for all they can.