If people get priced out of a service, there’s no legal way to enjoy the content for free. It sounds trivial, but when everything is going up in price at a rate way faster than wages go up, people have to start being more frugal.
Though that doesn’t mean people are ready to be ascetics and deny themselves all forms of pleasure in the name of frugality, either. As an example, the US film and movie theater industries were still doing good business during the Great Depression because people sought entertainment to help them get through hard times. But I have to imagine that if there was a “free” option to watch movies/TV back then, legal or otherwise, people would have been all over it.
That option exists today, and so I can’t fault people for making the choice. I mean for one, Apple doesn’t exactly need the money. They’re as big and rich as corporations get. If Apple is concerned about pirates, then they need to rethink their service model again before pointing fingers at people working poverty wages who pirate Severance because it reminds them how things could be worse.
Because I participate in piracy, I can’t admonish it. All I’m frustrated with is the way people talk about it, and the way it sometimes sounds like entitlement to other people’s work. I only really started feeling this strongly in recent years after all the AI talk, and how there is a similar entitlement at play. They have the right to everything.
I wish the discourse was better surrounding it. And less entitled and crass. That’s a narrow view on the whole landscape of the interactions that go on between people in the industry and with the consumers.
I sometimes think music streaming works in the model of every platform having almost everything, only because the volume seems to vastly out weigh movies and tv shows. But we can’t have movies and tv shows with the same model. It just doesn’t work. IMO. The prices always get high if you want it all.
Like, are books a good comparison? Those are treated differently. Can we produce tv with the same model and budgets we produce books with? And then have libraries? And sell them directly? I don’t find people who use libraries to get access similarly offputting, obviously. And they are not smug in the way I’m talking about here. More emphasis should be put on building up libraries as alternative access to all shows and movies.
I dunno. The entitlement to everything just has the vibe of a libertarian tech bro to me. This is why I’m sure to participate in both sides of the fence.
But here, I also find capitalism frustrating. So I’m hypocritical? I dunno. If tv was just art and not capitalism, and I was contributing resources for the production of said art, then things would feel better.
Anyway. I appreciate your reply. It’s better than the smug downvotes. Goodnight.
I don’t know if I agree with your specific issue here, but I do agree that there is this annoying cognitive dissonance creeping into piracy. More and more people will try to moralise their piracy and come up with all kinds of excuses to justify or even celebrate it, instead of just accepting and admitting that they do it because they don’t want to pay.
Yo ho yo ho…
What’s the logic you employ here? I’m just curious how you think through it. Besides “Piracy!”
ok yea so basically i-
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too many streaming services. can’t afford them all but I want to watch foundation🤠
If people get priced out of a service, there’s no legal way to enjoy the content for free. It sounds trivial, but when everything is going up in price at a rate way faster than wages go up, people have to start being more frugal.
Though that doesn’t mean people are ready to be ascetics and deny themselves all forms of pleasure in the name of frugality, either. As an example, the US film and movie theater industries were still doing good business during the Great Depression because people sought entertainment to help them get through hard times. But I have to imagine that if there was a “free” option to watch movies/TV back then, legal or otherwise, people would have been all over it.
That option exists today, and so I can’t fault people for making the choice. I mean for one, Apple doesn’t exactly need the money. They’re as big and rich as corporations get. If Apple is concerned about pirates, then they need to rethink their service model again before pointing fingers at people working poverty wages who pirate Severance because it reminds them how things could be worse.
Because I participate in piracy, I can’t admonish it. All I’m frustrated with is the way people talk about it, and the way it sometimes sounds like entitlement to other people’s work. I only really started feeling this strongly in recent years after all the AI talk, and how there is a similar entitlement at play. They have the right to everything.
I wish the discourse was better surrounding it. And less entitled and crass. That’s a narrow view on the whole landscape of the interactions that go on between people in the industry and with the consumers.
I sometimes think music streaming works in the model of every platform having almost everything, only because the volume seems to vastly out weigh movies and tv shows. But we can’t have movies and tv shows with the same model. It just doesn’t work. IMO. The prices always get high if you want it all.
Like, are books a good comparison? Those are treated differently. Can we produce tv with the same model and budgets we produce books with? And then have libraries? And sell them directly? I don’t find people who use libraries to get access similarly offputting, obviously. And they are not smug in the way I’m talking about here. More emphasis should be put on building up libraries as alternative access to all shows and movies.
I dunno. The entitlement to everything just has the vibe of a libertarian tech bro to me. This is why I’m sure to participate in both sides of the fence.
But here, I also find capitalism frustrating. So I’m hypocritical? I dunno. If tv was just art and not capitalism, and I was contributing resources for the production of said art, then things would feel better.
Anyway. I appreciate your reply. It’s better than the smug downvotes. Goodnight.
I don’t know if I agree with your specific issue here, but I do agree that there is this annoying cognitive dissonance creeping into piracy. More and more people will try to moralise their piracy and come up with all kinds of excuses to justify or even celebrate it, instead of just accepting and admitting that they do it because they don’t want to pay.
You put it well. I agree with you, and that sums up my sentiment much neater than my rambling about it. I appreciate your reply.
Is it so mysterious?
People like to spend less money rather than more money.