Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds

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Most pirates doesn't use the product if pirated version isn't avaliable, they aren't a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren't paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy
- Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever
  It's free advertising and costs nothing to the artist
  
  piracy also kept the music industry afloat
  And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like
  
  But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
  TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it's better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that's the day that most piracy will stop.
  
  They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.
  
  Ironically Napster now pays the most royalties to artists per stream
  
  They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.
  Intellectual Property is an illness.
  
  "Where's your crown king nothin?" - James Hetfield probably
  
  Blame Lars Ulrich for that
- people can build hype even if they aren’t paying
  Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn't be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000's

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