You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
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)
Kudos to you, I did intentionally ignore that point for brevity. No point in addressing it if noone was going to followup on it.
It is going to take a lot more piracy, like 500x to make buying the rights not a lucrative investment. So at present it just reduces their gains. In the long term it actually made it so that they stopped buying rights, then they might go back to royalties or something to reduce thier upfront investment. That would actually be good overall for both us and creators as it would increase the chances of the creator making out big early in thier career when something small takes off. Creators themselves are more likely to invest that early money on higher risk projects which will lead to more variety in the overall offerings and more new creators being able to make a living creating.
You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
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)
You are assuming the corpos didn’t just buy the rights. Cause if they did, the creators got paid already.
Why did they buy the rights from the creators, tell me. Go on. Think a little.
Kudos to you, I did intentionally ignore that point for brevity. No point in addressing it if noone was going to followup on it. It is going to take a lot more piracy, like 500x to make buying the rights not a lucrative investment. So at present it just reduces their gains. In the long term it actually made it so that they stopped buying rights, then they might go back to royalties or something to reduce thier upfront investment. That would actually be good overall for both us and creators as it would increase the chances of the creator making out big early in thier career when something small takes off. Creators themselves are more likely to invest that early money on higher risk projects which will lead to more variety in the overall offerings and more new creators being able to make a living creating.