I know a lot of us, myself included, like to believe that piracy allows us to consume problematic media without supporting artists we do not like. But piracy demand also indicates to companies an untapped market that they could tap if they create the right product. HBO is absolutely keeping tabs on piracy of their show now and seeing our traffic the same way Crunchyroll used to keep tabs on pirated fan-translated anime back when they cared.
Also, there is a similar ethical zero-sum game with all other Harry Potter media and products. Normally we can buy on the secondary market if we need a hard copy to scan and rip but don’t want to support the creators. But almost every Harry Potter book in circulation is purchased by someone with intention to sell for a profit, and HBO is also likely keeping tabs on sales and resales of DVDs of the old movies. Every time money leaves your bank account for Harry Potter media, you are directly feeding the ecosystem which sustains the Queen of the TERFs.
It’s honestly pretty incredible how morally radioactive this one human is. Orson Scott Card is equally repugnant, but the Ender’s Game series doesn’t even have a small fraction of the market share of Harry Potter (IMHO this is the fault of that movie being just okayish, not good or bad, but that’s another topic.) Trump’s MAGA movement is comparable in badness, but there really isn’t much most of us can do other than voting and never shutting up about how unconstitutional the things he is doing is. Rowling really is comparable to Disney or Nestlé, and she’s just one person, not a whole company.
Right now, the only ethical way to consume Harry Potter is watching or reading movies and books on your copies that either:
- you obtained before 2020
- were given to you for free in some non-trackable way, e.g. offline or sneakernet.
There is no ethical Harry Potter consumption within capitalism. We will have to see if this changes once she is dead.
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“Reminder: do not smear shit on the walls”
“Uhm, are you seriously telling me what to do right now? Maybe next time say you recommend I not smear shit on the walls”
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Don’t worry, your ability to consume treats thoughtlessly is more important than not causing harm. But that’s just my opinion
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Oh no say it ain’t so my preaching has forced your hand!
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I failed in the free marketplace of ideas this day 😔
Not everyone’s politics are based on reactionary spite
but about treats and trans people
Baby mentality
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the thing you’re not agreeing with is “transphobia is bad” in which case yes, that makes you a bad person. Don’t dance around this, dipshit
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Thank you! Appreciate it.
I’m insulting you based on the insult you deserve: smug transphobic dimwit. You’re dismissing that we’re telling you it’s not simply watching a series, you’re consuming media made by a machine designed to kill trans people. I personally don’t even care if you watch it, but you’re acting so obstinate in the face of actual trans people that it speaks poorly upon your character, to the point you deserve insults like: bigoted nazi shithead.
Really burying the lead there lmao
“Noooooo I need to consoooooom! Give me my treats! How dare you say I shouldn’t have them!”
Another Hexbear person comment. Really shows the attitude of the community, lol!
you are an actual child and you don’t deserve people politely recommending action to you. You should be commanded since you don’t know how to think to yourself. You just said you’re going to consume transphobic media made for children and baby-brained adults out of pure spite. You were given a reason not to indulge in it, because even pirating it is signalling to corporations that transphobic media is acceptable.
and you then gleefully don’t even mention why you’re being told not to indulge in it: because JK Rowling isn’t just some lady with an opinion, she’s a billionaire directly funding discrimination against me and people like me. Yes, you’re bad if you’re a transphobe. Fuck you. I hope you’re against me because I don’t want to be on the same side as a baby-brained infant bigot like you.
Ok, lol.
On next week’s episode: idiot actually becomes a Nazi because people told him not to, despite all of the good reasons to heed their words
“I’m going to be a transphobe out of spite” is a really weird hill to die on
I know right?
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To me, it’s pretty clear cut. Supporting a transphobe makes you a transphobe. I obviously can’t control your actions, but it is interesting that you feel the need to defend a position that allows you to support a transphobe.
I’m glad you said this because I tried to word my post in a way that did not include or suggest this phrase, and I see now that trying to be diplomatic to transphobes may have been a mistake. But I still hope I changed some minds.
How am I defending someone when I’m pirating it? Money does not flow to the person.
I’m not defending my position, I’m just surprised on how authoritively the left sudden get while blaming the right for being authoritarian. Especially in a Piracy community, where people pirate and download whatever they want without caring about… authority or opinions most of the time.
Then people get all squishy, emotionally and insult. Yeah, that will help the statement someone is trying to make.
Honestly, I don’t even care anymore. I’ll watch what I want to watch. The internet gives me a internet-headache lol. Reddit, Lemmy, whatever platform all the same crap with a different name.
Want to call me slurs or hateful names? Go ahead, you are a stranger on the internet.
Haven’t used insults or slurs, but if you’d like to imagine some for your emotional security, feel free. If one line from a stranger on the internet is enough to make you watch a subpar show made by a transphobe you weren’t going to watch, I don’t know how much “anti-authority” you can pretend to be.
You do you, man. Stay agitated on the internet. I’ll watch and enjoy content that I like, lol.