• null@piefed.nullspace.lol
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    9 hours ago

    The mental gymnastics people need to do to feel better about getting something for free against the wishes of the creator is so wild.

    Just own it.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      It’s not always against the wishes of the creators. It’s certainly against the wishes of whoever is making money out of it, and fair enough this is sometimes the creator but more often than not we are talking about a middleman, such as a publisher or big entertainment company.

      When I see piracy is depriving the creator of revenue directly, it always feels bad to me.

      When I see the creatives have been paid already, or have several income streams (and big ones at that too) and the only ones deprived of profit are the middleman companies… Well…

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, “the wishes of the creator” don’t matter. They don’t get to dictate how people use an idea they’ve shared, no matter how elaborate. If they want to keep it private, then don’t share it.

    • maddie1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      My favorite is people who use “archival purposes” as an argument for having a dump of some shit like SMB + Duck Hunt cart for NES. That shit isn’t going anywhere man, you just want to play it for free and that’s ok.

    • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      Surely, as in most modern games, the creators exact wishes is that nobody will be able to play it in a few years

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        8 hours ago

        Well yes of course, we can’t have the poor’s playing games years after their made!! That loses us shareholder quarterly value!! They must buy a new game yearly. Thats why we make everything online only so we can shut servers down at will, are you new in this industry?

        Thats why we are going after emulation next. Can you imagine, poor’s with access to millions of games 20-30 years old, with no subscription fees? The horror!!!

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      8 hours ago

      I love Warren Ellis’s run of Moon Knight. The art, the writing, the themes, it’s so good. It was only after I recommended it on MULTIVERSE that I was informed Warren Ellis is an asshole. He cheated on dozens of women at the same time, giving them career favours in exchange for sex. It was a sexually exploitative relationship that the women were not made aware of in advance.

      Good thing I didn’t pay for it!

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          8 hours ago

          Yes, everyone agrees that Ellis’s run from 2014 is the best Moon Knight made in the last 45 years. You can find it in the From The Dead book, which you shouldn’t pay for because Ellis is a creepo.

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        7 hours ago

        I just assume all creators of things I enjoy will eventually be proven to be sex pests. It makes it much easier to justify piracy morally to myself. (/j)

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah because corpo ai slop bots asked the “wishes of the creator” before they outright stole everything.

      Hardddddd eyeroll.