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How much of your money has been taken from you? Not hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to, but money that was actually yours. How much
by robonerd 5y ago
How much of your money has been taken from you? Not hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to, but money that was actually yours. How much was taken from you?
- Stunting 5y agoaround anywhere from 2 - 25 cents per viewing per consumer. Over the course of my career that can break down to easily 7 figures if I was to work on say the original Star Wars.
- robonerd 5y agoNot hypothetical money you think you might have been entitled to. The truth is, not a single cent was stolen from you.
- Stunting 5y agodid you extract the value of the entertainment without providing the fee? That's stealing money from me. If you weren't gonna watch it, don't watch. The argument being made is you in fact, do want to watch it, you just don't wanna pay for it. That's stealing.
- robonerd 5y agoIf it's any consolation to you, I've almost certainly never seen a movie with you in it.
- Stunting 5y agoDid you steal any content that was behind a paywall? If you did, you have taken money out of my industry and made it more difficult for it to be a viable career path in the future.
- robonerd 5y agoYour industry pretty much stopped making movies I care about, so I don't care if your industry curls up in a ball and dies.
- CuriouslyC 5y agoIf I didn't pirate it, I wouldn't watch it, so you're not losing anything in my case. Additionally, if your work is actual art rather than mediocre filler content I probably bought your merch, which I definitely wouldn't do if I was getting raped by a streaming service, so if anything odds are you're coming out ahead. Beyond that, if I'm pirating, people start conversations about TV shows I don't feel compelled to hijack them by talking about how all streaming platforms are bullshit, which I totally would do if I wasn't pirating.