• Novaling@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    [citation needed]

    You can not seriously think that companies can continue to produce million dollar movies and stay in business if literally every person pirated instead of spending a single penny on them. How the fuck else would they make money? You either pay for content, or don’t if people don’t pay, they lose money. Don’t be obtuse.

    If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.

    Never said nobody should copy. I want people to make copies and backups, that’s fantastic. Thank you for putting words in my mouth.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      I don’t think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don’t think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We’ve been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn’t something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.