Anyway, do you honestly think that if piracy actually caused significant profit loss it would affect the billionaires or anyone else in the "investor class"?

Of course not. They're going to use the ahem "loss" to justify lower wages.

I'm not saying don't pirate. I'm just saying you don't get to pretend like you're just hurting the class that gets to decide where the loss gets shunted. That's a wildly naïve view of how the world works. You can't fuck over the billionaires that way. They have too much power to let you.

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they'll start injecting ads directly into the media.

Oh wait, they're already doing this. I forgot about the 45 minute Chevy ad in Barbie.

[–] Sean@liberal.city 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@erogenouswarzone @s20 oh right, because that wasn't the case with movies like Transformers (again GM) or Superman and Marlboro being conspicuously visible throughout the movie, or ET when Reese's pieces paid to be a central part of the movie

[–] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sean, I didn't mean to offend you or insinuate that I didn't like Barbie. I have a daughter, and watched it with her and watch the dreamhouse show with her on Netflix all the time. I actually really liked the movie - except the long boring parts where they tried to justify Barbie's existence in our modern society.

Yes, those movies also have heavy product placements, but it doesn't somehow excuse all other movies from having them, if that is your point.

My point is that piracy has already impacted our lives. The commercials in movies are the evidence. Further piracy will cause either more ads in media or less content that targets the demographic of people that pirate (ie 18-35 yo men probably).

[–] Sean@liberal.city -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@erogenouswarzone piracy isn't the reason why there's product placement was my point, since it occurred from the start of Public Relations and the practice of earned media and payola. Eliminating piracy wouldn't affect product placement, and claiming so sounds like those ignoramuses who say if minimum wage is increased that jobs would be automated away - min wage has remained the same for over a decade and jobs are being automated anyway, jobs will be eliminated regardless of min wage laws

[–] Sean@liberal.city 1 points 1 year ago

@erogenouswarzone similar to product placement, it's not done by production companies because piracy is occurring, it's down regardless of the state of piracy to maximize profits. Labor scarcity goes away when wages reflect the demand and profit maximization is disregarded; movies disregarding profit maximization would then not have product placement and it's not a function of piracy, that's just the scapegoat for things to take place of the profit maximization. Profit motive≠profit maximization