Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮It’s fucking nuts that service providers can just remove your purchases like this without refunds.
Ertain@gamingonlinux In this case, piracy may be a necessary evil for watching the lost content.
Edit: apparently, I struck a nerve with this toot.
Jordan 
@Ertain @gamingonlinux If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
FoolishOwl@jordan_kendrick @Ertain @gamingonlinux Part of what's terrible is that most digital storage media has a short lifespan, but copying it validates the copy, so the most reliable way to preserve digital data is to distribute it widely and keep copying it regularly.
We need piracy to preserve culture.
SylvainNot trying to start an argument here, your comment just made me think of something I read earlier.
The British, who notoriously stole loads of culturally significant artefacts through conquests, refuse to return said stolen goods to their rightful owners on the basis of "preserving human culture".
Of course, piracy as "copying" is not like stealing the unique copy of something. But I thought the two close enough to be worth mentioning.
@axnxcamr @jordan_kendrick @Ertain @gamingonlinux That's an interesting point.
In this context, there is a history of artists getting burned. The corporations don't care about them any more than they care about anyone else. Probably most people pirating digital culture don't feel any personal responsibility to support artists, but some of us do, and we need to look for ways to do that and encourage others to take up that responsibility as well.
Gloopsies 
@foolishowl @axnxcamr @jordan_kendrick @Ertain @gamingonlinux
I'd argue it's quite the contrary. It's been proven many times that people don't pirate because they don't think the content deserves the money. They pirate because they get the better experience. It's not the problem of people not wanting to pay for the content they enjoy and don't want to support artists. They just want to get what they pay for, and if the experience is better for free they ain't paying