Oh lawd have mercy the pig has been oinking overtime while I was off the computer, and has declared war against the cybernetic scourge of the high seas. AI piracy
Jenny's question is very astute and i would like to use it to highlight Fat Rick's low intelligence once again.
in what way does the internet archive's library devalue an author's work if it's not even clear that it was affecting sales?
media piracy doesn't devalue work. that is an
actual delusion, stlaker Rick. there is no evidence that piracy of media has harmed anyone or anything to the point that they went destitute or even shut down, because it's only the natural consequence of a) the product being shit, b) the audience being poor, or c) all of the above. furthermore, real-world piracy had consequences. making a copy of and downloading an .mp3, which can be done an infinite amount of times, is not the same as printing money. the only time you can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is
some genuine impact from piracy is in the first two weeks of a big hyped vidya game's launch - getting cracked and pirated in the first two weeks is a big deal. having DRM like Denuvo makes
some sense, but only in those first two weeks, which is why DRM should always be removed from games afterward because it is demonstrably and historically harmful to the end user.
when a big corporation makes press releases whining about how piracy hurts them, they are, and have always been, complaining about
theoretical money.
all software piracy is theoretical damage. look no further than the example set by the RIAA when they marched LimeWire to the gallows. laws in any country or nation don't apply to music unless you are part of the RIAA, for whom the laws were almost explicitly written for. the RIAA will sue anyone they can. every radio station in the USA is standing on the gallows of the RIAA - the floor will fall out from under anyone at any given moment.
Techland, the developers of
Dying Light, have authoritarianism in their blood,
so of course they like what the RIAA does. they made a ridiculous claim long ago saying they were wrecked by piracy and they had to install the dreaded Denuvo for their future games, nevermind that
Dying Light was a tremendous success in the industry that tons of people are still playing to this day.
the ironic reality is that piracy does no damage but companies like Amazon and Spotify, both offering "software-as-a-service" (the former having Kindle Unlimited for instance) legalize what basically amounts to actual piracy and damages as a result. it's impossible to describe how fucked musicians are compared to anyone else adopting an artistic and creative lifestyle. you have all these record labels and "brands" raping your asshole, pillaging your royalties in a multistep process that makes Fed taxmasters blush, and you will inevitably be chewed up and spat out. even
if piracy was a fraction of "damage" that an artist suffered, it is so far removed from their constant reality of being treated as a morsel for a system that requires the mass sacrifice of young passion to sustain itself for just a few more days.
