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If I steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus,
but if I just copy it
there's one for each of us!
im a bicycle store owner and this is so true
I like to think this implies that people are coming into your store and cloning the bicycles
You wouldn't download a bicycle would you?
I absolutely would.
Call me Missingno. Cuz I would have 99 of them shits
It's probably possible nowadays!
No, but I would steal a car (and then trade it for a bicycle) (I can't drive lmao)
And if I do neither, I have to take the bus
So it's all yet another conspiracy by big bus
Normal busses are pretty big, so big bus must be very big
Is that the Universal Serial Bus?
No actually, that one's quite small
How small are we talking? Mini? Micro?
But the creator can't afford a bike now that you copied instead of buying. So kinda bad analogy.
I pirate because it's more convenience than having 10+ separate streaming apps, but I also don't pretend that the monetary losses from piracy don't trickle down.
I just don't care. Offer me a good service please, and I'll pay.
You can support creative people directly. Acting like the money paid to Netflix is trickling down to them is laughable.
Sometimes it’s really hard to do that though. Like, with most Japanese animation studios you can only buy cels from their site, it’s often all in Japanese and some studios don’t even have that.
Between marketing, producers, distribution and everything it’s become pretty damn hard to actually give the money to who you want.
It does. The streaming services won't order more seasons etc if ratings are shit. That new season is lots of money for the people working, from set hands to camera men, writers etc.
That said, I've not subscribed to any service since 2013 because none works like, say, Spotify.
Netflix, in particular, won't order more seasons if the show didn't get them more users. They don't care about popularity itself. The shows are supposed to get more people to subscribe. Which is stupid. I've honestly never heard of anyone subbing to Netflix for one show.
Exactly what I'm talking about, but some people don't realize the thing that if everyone pirates, the services stop spending money.
But it's their responsibility to make the service enticing
Streaming services notoriously won't order more seasons of shows that are popular, either. More seasons are more expensive than new shows.