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My moral compass has always been to pirate a product, then pay the studios/studio partners once I have a copy. It ensures I'm happy and the original authors get
by temp2022account 4y ago
My moral compass has always been to pirate a product, then pay the studios/studio partners once I have a copy. It ensures I'm happy and the original authors get profit, at the detriment of intermediaries. Sometimes you can't pay the studios directly, so things like a Crunchyroll subscription covers my anime pirating, even though I could never use their product for watching anything.
Is it terribly evil? I'm not sure. But I do know it aligns incentives for me to buy stuff and for creators to create stuff.
- hunter2_ 4y ago> subscription covers my anime pirating, even though I could never use their product for watching anything This breaks down if the service allocates payment based on your usage. Presumably zero usage results in your money being split in some manner such as proportionately across all creators based on their own total play counts, whereas having some usage results in at least some of your money being split based on what you play. I have no idea how this actually works. Purely speculating.