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I'm all for piracy but I still try to spend money where it morally makes sense to me.
I'll buy, rent or subscribe to content from actual creators or artists or developers if I know I am supporting their livelihoods or careers.
I'll pirate content if I decide for myself that the content has already paid for the livelihoods of the creators or workers who produced the material and now it's only the title holders and corporate interests that are profiting from the ownership and entitlement of controlling the content for commercial reasons only. For me this is mostly just big budget movies, old films and commercially produced music.
To me, anything that's already paid to help the original artist or creators should be made public. Locking it away and making people pay for the privilege of the content just to make more profit for someone else is piracy itself. This is especially true for films and music that are so old that the original artists and creators and owners are multi millionaires or just no longer exist.
I may be wrong but that is my own personal view of collecting digital content.
The long and short of the argument is "fuck the people who farm everyone else's efforts for millions. They don't own ideas or information."
Someone ripped off your YouTube video you worked hard on? I'm mad. Motherfucker cropped out your watermark and everything!
Someone copy your big budget movie? I don't give a fuck. You're Fox who makes it their business to lie to everyone and buy up control.
Nowadays you can almost reach every creator out there, and we use thousands of content and tools.
How would a financially average person can afford to pay these creators in such a scale?
A dollar at a time ... I'm willing to give or donate a dollar, two dollars or even five at a time ... if we all did that with a popular creator, they'd easily be able to reach a lot of money in a short time.
I donate to wikipedia, Open Source Software projects I use, firefox, thunderbird, ubuntu (although I am getting skeptical about this one) and other linux projects .. on top of that I send funds to creators, app developers and lemmy instances and other fediverse projects and those people who maintain the software, servers and communities in the fediverse
In all, I probably spend about three or four hundred dollars a year or more to these projects ... but I know that for the majority of them, the money is going to people that need it .. not to people who just want to add to their wealth after never contributing anything of value other than their ownership of someone else's work.
And if we all did this as users across the board ... these small content creators would have more than enough to sustain themselves and continue creating and maintaining these projects
Thank you for this insightful and humble reply, 1 dollar at the time 🙏