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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSorry Ubisoft
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    3 months ago

    All that’s happening here is a bunch of computer nerds have figured out how to get things for free, now they are lobbying hard to retain that ability. And with so many people who’ve joined together on that side of the fight, they feel strong enough to declare they have the right to steal things simply because they can.

    Same thing as all the looters in California who know that they can steal up to $1,000 of merchandise from any brick and mortar store, with no consequences. So gangs of kids in black hoodies are going into stores and filling up their bags and running out the door with $999 of unpaid merchandise per kid, and there’s nothing any of the store clerks can do, and the police won’t even come out to intervene.

    So now all the stores can do is lock up all the merchandise behind plexiglass cases and now any normal Shopper has to ask a store employee to unlock each item they want to purchase, and the employee has to carry it to the front of the store until the customer pays for it.

    Is this the kind of world you want to live in?

    I mean I kinda wish we could go back to the days when people’s hands were cut off when they’re caught stealing. That might incentivize people to stop stealing stuff that other people produced for sale in order to earn a livelihood.







  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSorry Ubisoft
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    3 months ago

    Interesting how you quoted “work, effort, training, time, and passion,” while you conveniently disregarded the “work, effort, training and time” that media producers invest. You think they don’t deserve to earn money for their work & effort & training & time?

    Do you feel that YOU deserve to get paid for your work & effort & training & time?

    I know you think you already answered that question, but you really didn’t. So I’ll ask you again:

    Do you feel like YOU deserve to get paid for your work & effort & training & time?


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    The only thing media producers [Party A] is deprived of is a little bit of money they feel entitled to every time [Party B] appreciates & consumes A’s media. If hundreds & thousands of B’s are appreciating & consuming A’s media, the financial losses begin to add up after A put so much work, effort, training, time, passion & resources into it, only to not get paid for all that effort.

    How would you feel if you worked your ass off at work then didn’t get paid because your employer felt invisible & untraceable and felt like they could get away with not paying you?