depends; depends; yes, unethical

Depends on your opinion about ethicality of brainwashing people with ads.

no its based

ethical

duty

unethical

The term "piracy" is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

t. Stallman

Truth.

The first use of the word 'pirate' itself to describe unauthorized publishing of books dates back to at least 1736

t. wiki

An interesting fact.

How does Stallmna think the enterprise industry should be funded?

entertainers don't have to be funded, they get food and drinks and bed for free every time they perform and they get to socially network like mad anyway too

t. rad & based

Same principle.

 

Do you imply enterprises go bankrupt because of the unauthorized copying of their copyrighted product?

no one is going to make movies for a living naymore if your only compensation is food and a place to stay

Up next: ad blockers causes google to go bankrupt

this is literally how artists lived for majority of human history and a lot of underground artists who love what they do woold love if this were the norm rather than measly pay that barely covers road expenses (if even)

I don't know if you heard, but they're already working on blocking youtube for people who use ad blockers

 

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection

it would happen if most people blocked ads

 

i encounter this sometimes when i watch YT on Brave but on the great majority of videos it doesn't work

 

the reality is that almost none of the entertainment that Bernd consumes would not get made if it weren't profitable

Scraping pennies because they not just reached the limit of growth but because advertisers leave them as it's not profitable to pay for youtube, pay-per-view, or whatever it's called, is a bad investment. And not because ad-blockers, since only a tiny fragment of users use em.

 

Metallica was literally destroyed by Napster and now they live in the poorhouse...

 

When a musician works (plays on concert) he gets payed. This is the main source of income. Selling records is fine, but it's stupid to "criminalize" copying, since it makes easier to reach wider audiences - who could go to their concert or decide to actually support them by buying the records.

majority of entertainment I consoom already isn't profitable

t. underground connoisseur

To think I now have a huge ass collection I never would if not for piracy.

Are you saying that Metallica's music is not profitable or that they don't get money from selling theie music?

 

so the majority of movies series etc that you watch aren't profitable? very doubtful

I don't watch hollywood or netflix so, yes

majority of movies I watched last 5 years were arthouse shit

I was saying ans sarcasm.

Yes, and I took that into account in my reply.

based

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