[WalterGR]

Rather than steal, I just don't consume.

Thank you.

I don't understand why this isn't a bigger thing.

But maybe I'm ignorant. I'd love to be disabused of my opinion. Which is:

You have no right to anything produced by content creators who choose to make their content available under terms that you don't agree with.

Instead of bitching about that, you should support content creators who distribute their content under terms that you agree with.

What am I missing?

[honestoHeminway]

As repetetive as pop-music and movies are today- i dont get it why there is a production industry at large still. How difficult can it be to get a NN to sing through autotune and add some music to that.

[deepnotderp]

The issue is that content creators rarely have any choice. If they don't work with labels, their careers are DOA.

[WalterGR]

The issue is that content creators rarely have any choice. If they don't work with labels, their careers are DOA.

Wait... so our responsibility is to preserve the careers of those people who produce that kind of IP - music, films, whatever counts as "art" -...

and yet we don't have a responsibility to preserve the careers of those who produce a different kind of IP - e.g. software?

If we're rejecting the predominant model of payment == ability to consume, it would seem that that's perfectly fine: we'll establish a new model that works to compensate content creators. Open source / free software models clearly do that, right? I mean, the creation of software is no different than the creation of any other kind of IP...

So why further the causes of content creators who release content under terms we refuse to be party to?

Hollywood, Big TV, Big Music, Big Software... Why consume their content under terms we don't agree with? And Software == IP == everything else I've listed.

Support those NON-SOFTWARE creators who reject terms we don't agree with.

We'll establish a natural balance, no?

[deepnotderp]

I never said we shouldn't respect software creators. All i said is that label companies take a major cut of money with disproportionate value added.