- Nov 8, 2019
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This one gets it!
Might be good if the mods were able to shut down all this talk on this thread, as this should be for sharing and if people wish to discuss the ethics of piracy etc then that should be a valid discussion in another thread.
But while people are letting lose haha...
Piracy is our last stand against what is increasingly becoming a dystopian cyberpunk futurescape and almost everyone of the people who complain will more often than not then sneak off and download a song / film / book or steal a piece of art for their desktop / phone splash screen or even anothers idea fro personal gain... and that's ok, as that is how it has always been. Art and piracy go hand in hand since day dot. 10 k years ago the guy in the cave drew a stickman with a spear and the guy next to him copied it or claimed he did it haha
Entire countries run on copyright and IP theft and the world doesn't cease to function. It forces us to keep inventing and evolving. Right now massive companies are doing everything they can to stop all progress through out right monopoly control on all forms of art and expression to ensure nothing new can come from what exists and its killing progress.
And every great patreon creative I support is very clear that they started by stealing other peoples stuff from software to ideas to plugins so they could get good and share what they learned. And because they're good they make money despite so called theft.. and they share what they make after a months or so anyway.
In an ideal world none of this would be a thing but we dont live in an ideal world. WE live a corrupt , hard, often unjust cruel world where the super rich take it all and destroy anything in their path including the planet and our very future. So we all just do what we can to get by and be our best selves but calling out people who need to pirate or wish to ...doesnt help anyone but the 'evilcorps'. AKA Those who cheat all day long but sue us and use take downs and bully tactics to keep absolute control of systems designed to be free and for the people. Anarchy and chaos and the freedom to chose to do the wrong thing is our only defense left against an oppressive authoritarian regime which has already swallowed much of the world from China to Russia.
Without piracy and digital theft the majority of the of the western world would have virtually nothing... while the tiny minority of super rich has degrees of everything. So I say take what you can get while you can get it but give back when you can!
I am a professional artist who has had his work stolen more times than I care to think and I would have loved all those to pay but those people would have gone elsewhere anyway so let them steal (im flattered!) , as i too steal and stole.. and those of us who can... keep making / giving back and the cycle keeps turning.
If I cant make new original content i have no right to call myself a creative.
And While we bicker massive corporations carve up the internet and society and ensure soon nothing will be free from the words we use to the ideas we have to the air and water we breathe and drink. They already control so much else and so few people see the prison of their own making, as we sign away our data willingly but find time to act as unpaid lawyers and pr managers for megacorps who are literally killing us haha
If i ever hear a creative saying 'they are not going to create anymore because they didnt make all the money they could...just some of it'...then theyre doing it for the wrong reasons and weren't likely to survive anyway.
Good work always finds good patreons and good people always attract like minded minds.
Though Im fully supportive of positively reviewing anything I didn't pay for to help the creator make new sales and get recognition from the majoirty who chose that route.
Thank your god for piracy and so called digital theft or as I call it the last bastion of defense against total stagnation and the decline of progress!
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