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I've never known so many shutdowns inside 2 weeks as the last two have been. Even websites pirating manga were shut down. What happened? What's with this massive legal wave of shutdowns, and why now?

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

There have been numerous studies over 20 years that consistently show that pirates actually spend more money on media than the average person.

There are people in private trackers I have seen who literally advertise how all their rips are Blu-Rays they purchased. With how prolific some of those uploaders are, that's literally thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of media they have bought.

I started caring about it as an issue when I found out that all the money Sony made from suing people for music piracy never made it to the artists. Artists had to sue Sony for any cut of that money. It is never about helping the artist.

Bandcamp is dying but they still have Bandcamp Fridays where the artists get 100% of the sale.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

Bandcamp has so much vinyl that I want from artists that I want to support, but shipping it overseas double or triples the cost (even if you buy 10 different LPs at a time, shipping is seperate for many of them) and I can't afford it. AFAIK, there is nothing like band camp on this side of the ocean