Something that’s not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.

  • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer

    • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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      10 days ago

      Copium bruh. The creators are making this content with the expectation of being paid for their labour. By pirating you are denying them of this regardless of your reasons for doing so. Saying it’s mostly “corpos who host the content” is the ones you’re scamming is just shifting the blame. If nobody paid for subscriptions etc corporations wouldn’t profit and thus wouldn’t host or fund content and it’s creators. Obviously giving creators a larger slice is better, but denying them of anything because you think that is hypocritical (which I am)