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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There is another model proposed at the end of the 90s by a french professor.

Just tax my internet (it's actually alrrady taxed) and monitor torrent / p2p shares (like it's already being done). Then pay a proportion of the money gathered via taxes to the creators of the media. It's a system that is already in place for some Television companies in Europe. Today, I would compare it to spotify. You still get the capitalist model where big budget peoductions make tons of money, but you live in a world where you are free to share and remix