High intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 26, 2023

lol so Amazon Prime announces they're moving everyone by default to an ad supported tier unless you pay more, and now Disney+ is also introducing an ad supported tier as well as account sharing/login restrictions on devices outside your home a la Netflix.

Media companies you had an ecosystem where you could still make money and it was cheaper than cable and more convenient than "piracy" so us consumers were all for it.

"Piracy" was basically defeated and now the tides are rising again.... 🤣

Show threadDan 🦺 DeboerSep 26, 2023
@totalclaireity In this age of streaming ads and streamers purging stuff from their catalogues, piracy seems like the only sane way forward.
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 26, 2023

@dandb

"Piracy" is accessibility. "Piracy" is knowledge sharing. "Piracy" is innovation. "Piracy" is resistance to closed ecosystems. "Piracy" is media preservation.

"Pirated"/"illegal" ROMs are why we can still access and play old games.

"Piracy" is discoverability and is its own form of marketing which drives sales.

And I'm absolutely not saying that people shouldn't be paid for their creative work, but it's not us consumers doing the stealing.

Show threadAurin Azadî
@totalclaireity @dandb Yes! And „piracy“ is participation for those who are forced to be poor in and by capitalism.
Sep 29, 2023 at 10:04amWeb
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 29, 2023

@atarifrosch @dandb

Absolutely!