alt Hacker NewsMost copyright holders prefer you sending money for them in the way they ask you to, which is by purchasing it in the way they are offering it. And it's completely hilarious to suggest that most pirates are somehow Venmoing the artists directly. 99% of content has no way to actually do that.
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dd8601fn • yesterday at 1:46 AM
That’s a nice way of saying they’re full of shit. They want stuff for free, and that’s the whole of it.
It’s reasonable to not want to do that, even if it’s not the most severe kind of unethical or illegal act.
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I didn’t suggest anything about the link between pirating media and buying media, and that’s not relevant to my point. The point is, if you want to support a creator financially, then by all means do so. And if you want a DRM-free copy of a work, and piracy is the only way to get that, then by all means do so. Neither precludes the other.