Because I participate in piracy, I can’t admonish it. All I’m frustrated with is the way people talk about it, and the way it sometimes sounds like entitlement to other people’s work. I only really started feeling this strongly in recent years after all the AI talk, and how there is a similar entitlement at play. They have the right to everything.

I wish the discourse was better surrounding it. And less entitled and crass. That’s a narrow view on the whole landscape of the interactions that go on between people in the industry and with the consumers.

I sometimes think music streaming works in the model of every platform having almost everything, only because the volume seems to vastly out weigh movies and tv shows. But we can’t have movies and tv shows with the same model. It just doesn’t work. IMO. The prices always get high if you want it all.

Like, are books a good comparison? Those are treated differently. Can we produce tv with the same model and budgets we produce books with? And then have libraries? And sell them directly? I don’t find people who use libraries to get access similarly offputting, obviously. And they are not smug in the way I’m talking about here. More emphasis should be put on building up libraries as alternative access to all shows and movies.

I dunno. The entitlement to everything just has the vibe of a libertarian tech bro to me. This is why I’m sure to participate in both sides of the fence.

But here, I also find capitalism frustrating. So I’m hypocritical? I dunno. If tv was just art and not capitalism, and I was contributing resources for the production of said art, then things would feel better.

Anyway. I appreciate your reply. It’s better than the smug downvotes. Goodnight.