[ SECRET POST #2686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Another one for the piracy thing

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a baker. I like baking. I love it, actually. My kitchen is my happy place. I still want to get paid for doing it, though, because it is my damn job. Just like my sister wants to get paid for practicing law, which she loves, because that's her job, and my girlfriend wants to get paid for building websites, which she finds enjoyable, because that's her job.

Just because someone enjoys their work doesn't mean they shouldn't expect to be paid for it, and the idea that artists specifically should be above such petty considerations is frankly idiotic. They enjoy their art, or they wouldn't be doing it, but they probably also enjoy paying their rent and eating food, because they are presumably human artists and not magical fairies who are sustained wholly by sunshine and the smiles of little children.

Re: Another one for the piracy thing

[feotakahari]

The analogy here would be if someone copied your recipes and started giving away free baked goods from a roadside shack--more economical for the customer, but also more likely to give them a virus. I'm not sure what effect that would have on overall sales, but I doubt it would drive you out of business.

Re: Another one for the piracy thing

[(Anonymous)]

That analogy doesn't work, because your theoretical roadside shack muffin mavericks are putting in the effort of producing their potentially virus-riddled muffins themselves - at worst, it's knock-offs, and at best it's the equivalent of fanwork, but either way it's something they themselves produced at the expense of their own time, effort, and supplies.

Pirates don't create. They aren't giving away their work. They're giving away someone else's, and while I am not actually anti-piracy, pretending it's some kind of moral stance because people who like their work shouldn't want to be paid for that work is, again, idiotic.

Re: Another one for the piracy thing

[feotakahari]

I don't understand the point you're drawing here. Is there something more moral about knockoffs you've put effort into than knockoffs you haven't put effort into? (If you were to say knockoffs in general are bad, that would be more consistent, but much harder to respond to.)

Re: Another one for the piracy thing

[(Anonymous)]

Piracy isn't a knockoff. It is the actual, real product, being redistributed without any compensation to the creator. Knockoffs only came into it because you made a faulty analogy, and only in the context of me saying "hey, this analogy is faulty, here's why".