6 ms·
Sadly pirates are a critical piece of media preservation.
by vlunkr 3y ago
Sadly pirates are a critical piece of media preservation.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoWhy sadly? If the corporation who owns the original IP, abandoned it for 10+ years with no way of legitimately buying it from them, then it means they don't want our money and they don't care about it, so it's fair game. I'm doing my part.
- skyyler 3y agoSadly; because a noble pursuit has been reduced to literal crime...
- vlunkr 3y agoExactly. If the content owners were more responsible, or if IP laws were better, it wouldn't be necessary.
- jzb 3y agoSadly because the industry actively fights against it, and people can be punished for it. Also "sadly" because it's not exactly a dependable process -- we're depending on people to spontaneously choose to preserve / share media widely enough there will be decent copies when/if they go out of "legitimate" circulation. It'd be better if archiving & preserving copies were a mandatory step to being awarded copyright protection. (Which would not displace filesharing, of course...)
- ryandrake 3y agoAnother sad thing is the mentality of IP rightsholders. For abandoned songs/movies/works that don't make any money anymore, they'd rather expend the cost/effort to destroy them than allow them to be distributed for free, even though destroying them is likely more expensive. Totally malicious. Reminds me of grocery stores that throw out food at the end of the day and spend effort guarding the dumpsters so nobody gets food for free.
- JasserInicide 3y agoLots of rare music found nowhere else was lost when what.cd got shut down
- WeylandYutani 3y agoThis may sound like a conspiracy but I think the industry wants people to buy new content not enjoy the hits from yesteryear.
- stinkytaco 3y agoI think they want you to rebuy old content in new forms, pure profit. Or better yet, rent it in perpetuity.
- jwagenet 3y agoThis is more or less what the entire entertainment industry is doing with endless reboots, sequels, remasters, new formats, etc.
- rockemsockem 3y agoThere was some study I saw, maybe even released by Spotify, that showed that a massive percentage (maybe a majority?) of streamed music was several decades old. So they're raking in cash from rent seeking really. It would be healthier for music if what you said was true though.
- azinman2 3y agoThis makes sense. People largely listen to whatever was new/popular in their childhood through 20s.
- ghaff 3y agoSome people are more musically adventurous than others or they sometimes latch onto a new genre or artist. But the reality is that most of us largely default to what we listened to in school or maybe the decade after. I know I listen to relatively little music created in the past 20 years and don't really care if a streaming service is missing XYZ newish artist. I actually have quite a large, somewhat curated digital music library and, with a few hundred dollars and a few days of effort, I could probably patch any particular holes I have among songs/albums I especially enjoy, but mostly I use streaming including a lot of curated playlists.
- akomtu 3y agoPirates are just independent corsairs. The latter are pirates who work for the king, they are doing the same kind of robbery, but since the king profits off it, they are called "legal". That's what modern copyright holders are: pirates backed by the king.
- strken 3y agoThis is wrong. Privateers, which is the more general class corsairs belonged to, were akin to modern PMCs and operated under similar constraints. They mostly obeyed the rules of war, were punished when they did not, and their conduct was similar to national ships in nearly every regard. They took prisoners of war and were taken prisoner in turn. When one group is taking ships and killing every living thing on it then illegally selling the cargo and personal effects of the occupants, and another group is taking ships and dropping the occupants off at a POW camp then sending it to the admiralty to be legally sold, the latter is not doing the same kind of robbery. Arguably they aren't doing any kind of robbery at all.
- bee_rider 3y agoIt was the colonial era, right? That a gang of thieves and thugs stole enough to afford fancy wigs and crowns doesn’t make them legitimate.
- strken 3y agoThe legitimacy of a government, or lack thereof, does not make executing the entire crew of a ship morally equivalent to sending them to a POW camp.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoI don't think pirates regularly executed the entire crew of a ship either. There's no monetary benefit in doing so, it will encourage reprisals, and future ships will refuse to surrender.
- 3y ago
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoHappily, file sharing enthusiasts are a critical piece of media preservation. Piracy is a violent crime, file sharing is not comparable to it in any way.
- nine_k 3y agoTo say the truth, files to be shared often need to be produced first: books scanned and OCRed, DVDs grabbed and repackaged, games actually cracked, etc. There is a scene beyond just people running Bittorrent nodes.
- pizzaknife 3y agoIf it is as truly violent as the "piracy" label suggests, then is this not "war on drugs" in another vestige?
- nine_k 3y agoI can agree that "piracy" is an unnecessarily violent label (no swords, no drowned ships), but it sort of became the standard word in media. AFAICT the actual scene prefers terns like "release group", because it's indeed what they do: release bits from the confines of DRM or dead trees.
- unixgoddess 3y ago[flagged]
- rockemsockem 3y agoQuite the opposite actually. Studies have found that those who pirate content tend to purchase significantly more content than the average person.
- unixgoddess 3y agothis is obviously bull though.. how do you even make a study like that? you'd need to associate each illegal downloader to his/her real identity and then to each of their legal purchases... that's ridiculous, and even if academics had the means to do it, it would be illegal. piracy itself is illegal in most countries, so if you don't report them you are literally an accomplice.