The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • Mchugho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    417·
    8 months ago

    Make sure nobody gets paid for anything so that nobody bothers making the content you enjoy??

    • thatWeirdGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      8 months ago

      I’d gladly support the content creators, be it with merch, Kickstarter, patreon or any other direct way. Giving the money to the corporate balls of greed is another story

      • Mchugho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        8 months ago

        If the content creators want to create content without the might of a studio behind them giving financial backing they are free to independently publish their work on Kickstarter. Most aren’t happy to do so.

        You want the studios to support your favourite content creators, but you don’t want to pay the studios. If everybody thought like this the whole system would collapse in a bad way.

        How about instead of seeking out free ways to steal other people’s work you actually seek out the independent creators you are supposedly happy to pay for?

        • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          That’s the problem with your view… it’s not theft, it’s a balance. We need piracy to suppress some of the greed.

          And you are also looking at things I extremes when reality is always somewhere I between.

          Aside from that, studies have shown piracy to be more of a positive than a negative and those who pirate also tend to spend more than those who don’t anyways.

          • Mchugho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            8 months ago

            I’m calling bullshit on pirates spending more on media than non pirates as a percentage of consumed content. I guess the correlation makes sense if we assume the worst offenders are those who are consuming the most media in general.

            Regardless it is theft. That’s not to make an ethical judgement but it is. You can make an equivalent stand by not purchasing the media, you don’t have to also illegally download something to make the same point or provide the balance as you put it.

              • Mchugho@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                8 months ago

                Perhaps you should try reading what I actually said instead of what you thought I said.

                It literally is theft, theft is a well defined legal concept.