I genuinely do understand concerns about legal issues and the risk of facilitating illegal activities- but its not even hosted on their instance, why would it mater that the communities EXIST. They’re literally hosted by someone else…?
Ha, what a loser. Artists don’t deserve to be paid for their work.
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Most rappers are legitimate criminals some even murderers. They don’t deserve shit.
People act like “normal” people aren’t criminals. The world is really dark. Oh yeah not to mention ruining lives and families by selling them crack or pimping out women and kids.
Snoop drove for a hitter.
Source: seent it irl.
Wait you’re saying that if someone committed a crime before then they don’t deserve pay for their work ever?
“Most rappers” you got a source for this or are you as completely unhinged as you sound lmfao
My life growing up with emcees and bloods that connect with Boston and ny/bk/bx. As well as being in the graffiti culture. I’ve had death threats against my family and kids and gunshots directly outside my house, and been stalked. Seen fist sized rocks of meth and automatic weapons.
Believe it or not not heeding the wisdom will be your loss if you ever end up mixed up in the bullshit. It made me almost kill myself and I’m still dealing with it.
Not talking about pop rap. Aside from the old heads from the 90s.
Every dealer has a boss. Every boss has to protect their life. Every boss has a crew. I’ve seen shit deep. I know the way it all works. Favors for favors etc. If you aren’t the guy on the top then your freedom relies on being submissive to the one above you. I’ve seen people do anything to stay out of prison.
Lmfao shut up you weird ass dork nobody cares
Sorry ur suckass at trapping
What a horrible response, you sound like an awful person.
Why are all my encounters with the hexbear instance similar? What is that instance about?
Yeah im a super awful person “iHUNTcriminals”
Lol
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I for one would simply not get involved with a drug dealing gang enterprise lmfao
Also “trust me bro it happened to me” is not a source.
I didn’t I just grew up around them. They groomed me basically to be naive to their bullshit. Once they realized I actually knew they started threatening my family. Stealing shit etc.
I never sold drugs or painted with them but they realized I knew about their names, and where they live, and how they make their money. They are really sloppy with it.
Every dealer has a boss
Might’ve been the case 20 years ago but nowadays you can buy drugs in bulk through the dark net. If you have good opsec you won’t be caught that easily and it’s way safer. If you don’t care about OpSec, you shouldn’t sell or even own drugs in the first place
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Who wants to bet “criminals” is a euphemism for a certain melanin-rich ethnic group?
Pretty sure the artists get paid whether consumers pirate the final product or not? The Bungie devs don’t get paid less money for every game that is pirated 🤡
Actually they might. Game developers get bonuses based on how well the game sold. Well a lot at least. It’s not just games though.
I still pirate things. It’s just way more convenient than having 30 subscriptions
I know they have “arts” in their name, but Electronic Arts doesn’t make art.
Artists don’t deserve to be paid for their work.
That’s the take of the suits and investors that receive the staggering majority of the revenue from the companies you’re stanning for.
So just pirate indie releases right? As artist for manor companies already don’t get paid
Does anybody have the greentext that goes something like
Pirate game
Company loses $60 because it’s theft
Company regains $60 after deleting game from hard drive
Pirate one million copies, company bankrupt from massive theft
Buy insolvent company for cheap
Delete all game copies, company profitable again
I love that, it’s almost like how banks make money with loans: create money out of thin air, lend it, profit.
Embedded version:
I am human, and this action was performed automatically.Maybe one of the tightest written indictments of IP law. Companies “losing” money when no money changes hands makes me laugh.
That’s the stock market, bay-bee!
good bot
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I’ve migrated to another instance because of this and their uptime
I think people who are pro-piracy tend to be a little dogmatic in the wrong direction, refusing to exercise their imagination or contemplate situations where people can be legitimately hurt financially or otherwise by their actions. However, most of the arguments are pretty sound, and I can’t imagine working that hard making new accounts just to argue in favor of movie/record studios that have exploited artists for as long as they have existed.
The “filthy” line was just funny to me lol
They never think on the people they affect. They just want free things all the time claiming imaginary problems like the government and companies steal from them, like bro, that’s just how capitalism works if you don’t like it go to rusia, Venezuela and see how they’re doing
My feelings are far more nuanced than this. Suffice to say I do not agree with you when you paint with such broad strokes.
Yes some people just want free shit, I think most people would acknowledge that. But when you get too boilerplate about piracy and don’t explore the topic, you’re no better than those who make up disingenuous reasons for why they never need to consider what they are pirating and who it may impact.
Found the loser in the screenshots alt lmaooo get a life my guy
Someone posted on another comment, the guy in the screenshot takes always the same name for his accounts. I just agree with him
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When deciding whether or not use someone’s art without their permission, it behooves one to consider the ethics. Whether you come to a different conclusion than I do is whatever, but not every case is exactly the same, and to dismiss the people on the other side of the equation with made-up numbers pulled from thin air is not the proper way to go about it.
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I think people who are pro-piracy tend to be a little dogmatic in the wrong direction, refusing to exercise their imagination or contemplate situations where people can be legitimately hurt financially or otherwise by their actions.
That’s not been my experience. I always see people advocating for paying for games/media when it comes from indie devs etc. And there is a difference between piracy and outright theft of artwork which is then profited from, I.e. a company steals small artists work and puts it on t-shirts - very few “pro-piracy” people, if any at all, are advocating for that.
At the end of the day, pirates do it because they either have very little money or they’re smart and want to retain the money they have. Then there are anti-copyright people, which is cool too.
Then there are the people who don’t really know what’s going on but claim some moral standing surrounding piracy. I can actually feel them coming, fuck…
 Well that has often been my experience, but I’m not going to pretend that my experience as everyone is.
For instance, I see a lot of really ridiculous arguments claiming it’s for archiving.” First of all, they do not follow archival procedures. Second, they are not working with any known archiving organizations. Thirdly, they are not using what they have “archived” in any manner that could be considered “for the public good.“ Unless you want to count seeding it back out, but that argument can become pretty recursive pretty quickly. 
It also just so happens they are archiving mostly - if not entirely - the games they want to play, the shows they want to watch, and the movies they want to watch. It’s awfully curious how much the venn diagram of “archiving for the public good” and “what I want to enjoy” resembles a circle lol.
My point being, there are arguments in favor of piracy, most of which i agree with. But I see a lot of disingenuous ones from people who are clearly just doing it because they feel entitled to the media. I would rather they were just honest about their intentions instead of feeding me nonsense talking points that even they don’t believe. Otherwise it just reeks of justifying their actions (poorly) instead of just saying “I have nothing to justify.”
Well in that case I agree with you.
People should pirate what they want without making excuses.
Bingo. Own the act, then explain it to folks without being defensive or straight up lying to yourself.
You have a point, but it’s kind of like people who resist all gun control due to the second amendment despite the shootings going on
Yeah, if life continues on as-is, the argument has little merit. On the other hand, in the case of the second amendment, we have fascists making a credible move for control.
In the case of archiving DRM content, if we have a cataclysm (which seems increasingly likely), then having drm-free, ideally unencrypted, content sitting on random hard drives might end up making an enormous difference in a lot of lives
Or even without a cataclysm, just general enshittification might end up destroying the gaming and media industries - passed around old games might be the seed for the next generation of tech-heads. I started my path by jailbreaking my PSP so I could use custom web browsers and homebrew - spreading these after the Internet is locked down by efforts like kosa and WEI (and whatever comes next) might be the spark that motivates the next generation
Im just here to try federation stuff. Dont mind me
Most pirates doesn’t use the product if pirated version isn’t avaliable, they aren’t a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren’t paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy
people can build hype even if they aren’t paying
Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn’t be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000’s
Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever
It’s free advertising and costs nothing to the artist
piracy also kept the music industry afloat
And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like
Blame Lars Ulrich for that
Ironically Napster now pays the most royalties to artists per stream
But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.
They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.
They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.
Intellectual Property is an illness.
“Where’s your crown king nothin?” - James Hetfield probably
Sounds a like a fucking corpo plant.
Lemmy.world admins are the worst fucking dweebs on the fediverse.
I need to check out this community to improve my piracy game 🏴☠️
That behavior is kinda shameful lol
Nintendo after removing Mario: Mega Cum (1995) for purchase and it’s gets pirated by 30 people
Neat! Deeply ineffective communication! Starting to feel more like reddit by the day!
That is fuckin bonkers!
