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[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Though I agree about 'financial support for content creator' I think our model of copyright doesn't work.

I'd love your opinion

Should a content creator keep making money forever once something is produced ? Would you prefer to buy rather than pirate a movie that was made 100 years ago ? Let's say you never bought any Charlie Chaplin movie, would you buy it if you wanted to watch it ?

The reason I ask is because I'm still unclear myself about what is morally right on this topic. I tend to pirate a lot nowadays because I don't know how to support content creators without filling the pockets of intermediary leeches

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

My personal rule is that I'll buy it as long as the original creators are profiting from new sales. So I'm happy to buy Switch games, but I'm probably not going to buy N64 games because they're not available from the original devs.

I may buy even if that's not the case if buying is a better experience than getting it some other way.

If DRM-free digital copies existed for movies, I'd buy them. But they don't, so I buy physical media and rip it to my NAS.

this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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