This and just act mature about it with a critical judgement.

Regardless what Rowling says the wizarding world, which is a mix of common mythology and has folklore huge queer potential. Its hard to find media that portrays something like it this well.

The series will have its flaws, the writer will make sure of that, but she will also be too shortsighted to recognise the extension and personal touched by everyone else involved that may not agree with her viewpoints.

I disagree.

Interacting with the new show, even through piracy, leads to more voices talking about it and making Rowling’s cash-cow culturally relevant. It also normalises the shit takes she pushes through her stories at children.

I don’t like Ben Shapiro, and wouldn’t pay a dime for his streaming service. But pirating Chip Chilla to show to my kids still gives him a say in how me and my family view the world.

Why does Rowling get a pass? Because I happened to read her racist, classist tripe when I was a kid?

Still helps to promote engagement. People can do what they want, but if you really want to make a stand on this, then completely ignoring it is the only way.

Better off, pirate it and donate the price of the media to the Trevor Project or something (can someone recommend a British trans charity in the replies, for example?)

I was considering playing hogwarts legacy a while back, I decided if I bought it I would donate double what I paid for the game to mermaids.

Whatever fraction of a share of the cost goes to Rowling and whatever fraction of that she uses to push her hateful agenda probably does less harm than mermaids does good.

Conceptually I view it as similar to putting sin taxes on things which are harmful to society but difficult to prohibit (alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food etc.)

I wound up not buying it because there are other games to play from better franchises and my HP nostalgia isn’t all that strong, but I think this is a reasonable approach.

Way ahead of you. I remember when The Half Blood Prince came out, there were leaked photographs of the whole book online a few days early. There was a massive collaborative transcription of the low quality photos into an ebook. Fun times.

I wouldn’t.

Attention is still cause for future contracts, which is how she makes money. Because at that point, publishers and companies just go “this was our money, these are missed sales because of piracy”. They’re well aware of any pirated media and see it as demand.