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  • That’s a tough line to draw; it’s different for everyone.

    In the US, it used to go:

    • Parents buy kids stuff
    • Kids start buying their own, but can’t afford what they want to they bootleg
    • Kids get decent-paying jobs that make the time needed to bootleg a bad equation.
    • Kids become parents

    But the coming and going of cheap music, streaming music, cheap video, and expensive video has wrecked the market.

    I stopped pirating when purchasing music became cheap (apple music)

    I started again when catalogs weren’t what I wanted. And supported artists directly.

    I stopped video piracy when Netflix was cheap and good and started again when they sucked.

    If you can bring me long-form entertainment that I enjoy and own for less than a meal out, I’ll buy it.

    If you can bring me short-form entertainment that I can re-partake hundreds of times for less than a snack, I’ll buy it.

    If I can’t buy it, or it encroaches on my other comforts, that’s where the line is for me






  • Yeah, I get that. I was full on piracy for decades, when netflix came, I just ended up pausing most of that. I naively thought that they had finally figured it out, and we could just pay for access. Would have been kinda nice not to have to manage risk on a bunch of disks.

    Then my 4-year-old was in the middle of Chuggington when netflix just dropped it outright.

    I then realized that convenience cuts both ways and if it was more convenient for them, I was going to get fucked.

    To this day, the fam watches netflix, but if someone is truely into something, It also comes down getting curated through the torrents.


  • The older generations are definitely failing the younger generations, but what are parents going to do as individuals? Try to convince them that the only music they can afford on their shit jobs isn’t ok? My kids know how to sail the seas, but that’s not something I could expect every parent to do.

    We need the same kind of outrage AI is getting applied to record labels and media companies. We need a metric fuckton of anti-monopoly hurled at the remaining 4 big players.