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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you know any platform that only offers digital stuff that's not buyable in a "good" way? Because I don't. That pirates pretend to ride some moral high horse is a cope that's incredibly disrespectful towards creators.

I feel in online communities like the Fediverse there is an active community of people who do not respect work of people who aren't working in tech or science. Or maybe it's predominantly a disrespect for creatives? I see this in discussions about AI image generators as well. And it's basically the same set of arguments that try to suggest artist should work for free.

They just have to add "get a real job and do your hobbies in your free time" and we have full circled back into the boomer mindset.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm gonna draw a hard line though, one between individual creators who do honest and fair work, and big corporations that exploit anyone who wants or needs to aquire their products legitimately.

Because legal or not, what some companies are doing is just completely fucked. Again, Adobe.