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  • Yeah seems like there is about a 5% loss in sales for new movies and negligible loss for everything else according to that source. Notably the source does not say that piracy increases sales but of course it didn’t why would someone read a fucking source before citing it. I mean it’s not like the source addresses specifically what questions the source attempts to answer and the results they found in the opening fucking paragraph.










  • I think components being 3d printed is more likely. It’s pretty hard to do cookie cutter complex objects like apartment buildings and family homes. Things like bricks, supports, ducts, pipes, insulation are much more adaptable. I think a hot take of mine is that 3d printing isn’t gonna be the next big thing in construction and manufacturing. There’s really sophisticated and efficient methods of doing those things on an industrial scale now that I don’t see 3d printers matching. I do think 3d printers will play a bigger role for personal use. Having a tool that could print out many different household objects just for one person seems useful. Things like toothbrushes, housing components for electronics, ceramics like plates and glasses.


  • Copium bruh. The creators are making this content with the expectation of being paid for their labour. By pirating you are denying them of this regardless of your reasons for doing so. Saying it’s mostly “corpos who host the content” is the ones you’re scamming is just shifting the blame. If nobody paid for subscriptions etc corporations wouldn’t profit and thus wouldn’t host or fund content and it’s creators. Obviously giving creators a larger slice is better, but denying them of anything because you think that is hypocritical (which I am)


  • I’m okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like “it’s not stealing it’s just copying,” among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you’re doing. There’s so much free media out there you don’t need to pirate the stuff that isn’t.

    Personally I’m okay with being told I’m a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I’m broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I’m a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.




  • Yeah. Not a lot of people in the west are comfortable acknowledging the fact that the life of relative luxury we enjoy is a result of decades to centuries of exploitation of other cultures. We enjoy things like cheap clothing, food and electronics because the people who make these things aren’t being paid a fair amount.

    The reality is for people reading this comment, a sustainable future is one where you have less. And to get to that future you have to give things up. That is not a popular opinion and basically makes you unelectable. People love to blame capitalism for always demanding more, but the population at large won’t accept less than they already have. People don’t want to stop eating meat; people don’t want to pay more for clothing or electronics.

    Personally, I try to do what I can. I went vegan, I stopped driving, I try to use what I have before I get something new. Globally I have more than average, I’d happily live in a world where the collective wealth of humanity is distributed equally among us all. Even if that means I would personally have less.