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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With a bit of effort you can stream any movie directly to your TV for a few moneys a month (or free, but paying for the essential bits removes the jankiness)

Something I learned back in the day: "Never pay for warez". Pirate all you want, the moment you are paying, pay the creator of the product you're interested in, not someone who pirated it and wants to profit from distributing it without a licence.

[–] Arcka@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

Except the value proposition still needs to make sense, so resigning to just pay the ~~creator~~ license holder exorbitant rates for ever-more-enshittified services is learning the wrong lesson.

They have used their control over the system to grotesquely distort copyright from its original intent of getting more cultural works into the public domain for people to use and build on, to instead lock everything away for lifetimes. Don't buy into their lies and propaganda that they have any moral high ground.