I never thought it would bother me, until I actually sat in a car where everything was dependent on software the first time.

At first I thought I was just getting old. But it dawned on me that relying on software to fucking roll down the windows or starting the car doesn’t feel too good.

(It was also an extreme jump in technology for me because the last car I drove before that was an old Corsa around the year ~2005.)

How could they forget Pascal :/

By the artist Skrumpgoblin

People pirate and then wonder why small developer studios for example go broke or software becomes more expensive or less plenty. It’s so dumb it hurts.

No, I mean that they should think of own measurements against illegal media and communication.

Organisations and groups who want to protect privacy should come up with ways themselves on how to protect their services from certain activities.

Since the idea seems to be that pirating digital goods is a moral imperative, the question what are the consequences if everyone would do it is valid.

Do you believe actors etc. would still keep getting paid if everyone would just pirate everything?

But you do understand that if nobody would buy a ticket, there wouldn’t be concerts?

It just seems that what you are saying is that people shouldn’t be paid if their work doesn’t create something physical.

Why should an artist not be paid but a gardener or someone who build your house is supposed to be paid?

After all, humans build stuff and make stuff with plants without compensation all the time.

You just sound like a Boomer who thinks work is only work when the product isn’t entertaining or art.

What would you call it if you make a contract with a gardener, they make your entire garden and then you don’t pay them. Since it’s not stealing, where is the harm, right?

Do you give those 40 people back their donation money if you ever close your service? Since in the end, they never got any of the hardware or media they watched over your Plex for their money.

Don’t you see the problem in your reasoning? When everyone would just pirate, nobody would be able to get paid. The money that pays the wages for the workers isn’t willed into existence, it ultimately comes from the consumer. Bigger studios pay their workers before the project is finished. That money comes from ongoing sales they produced before.

Because the majority of people do not pirate because they truly believe they are doing something morally good. That’s laughable.

If it really was about going against the licensing schemes these people would all buy on GoG. Instead they rather pirate the games and use Steam for the rest.

The majority of people pirates stuff because they feel entitled to it and are greedy and because it works and is easy to do. They do not respect those who put the work into the music or the movies or the games.

What makes me so angry about it is the hypocrisy. Since these are often the same people who are virtue signalling about how capitalism is bad since employers are too greedy to pay good wages.

The irony is quite strong in this.

Still people share digital goods indiscriminately, even those which are possible to buy and own.

That’s why I am against indiscriminately pirating all digital goods. Because it’s morally wrong to have people work for you and then not pay them.

But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

What’s with the hundreds of thousands of other media that is shared?

Are you against employees getting good wages?