Pokémon, Yugioh and Precure are the common things around here, but any game, anime or other stuff that I also like may show up. (my favorite season btw are Sun and Moon anime, Gx and Zexal, Mahou Tsukai and Star Twinkle respectively) I like tagging stuff so feel free to ask me to tag something a certain way. Most stuff here is queued
The conversation around media piracy is never really going to be a black-and-white “always good” or “always bad,” because it’s so situational.
I’d really prefer people didn’t pirate my book, because I am an independent, self-published author who makes like thirty cents per sale and regularly has to e-beg in order to get groceries. Maybe don’t pirate from people in my situation.
Meanwhile, it’s currently very imperative that people preserve as many things being purged from HBO Max as possible, because even the creators are saying they don’t know the fate of the shows right now. The corporations that own everything are screwing people over and restricting access to the art.
Authors have been screwed over by publishing houses over book piracy issues, and legitimate sales numbers can sometimes make or break an author’s career. In that sort of circumstance you should get books through shops or the local library, if you can.
But on the flip side, I recently tried very hard to go through legal sources to get my hands on some books for a project I’m working on. Half my booklist is out of print or hard to find, the local libraries didn’t have it, the inter-library loan system was complicated to navigate, and the only “accessible” copies cost almost $100 on Thriftbooks. Pirating the PDFs is the only way I’m able to read them at all, just like several documentaries I downloaded that are only available through paid streaming services I can’t afford.
Sometimes piracy is a dick move, sometimes it’s vital to media preservation, sometimes it’s a grey area, most of the time you’ve gotta make a personal judgment call on what constitutes “ethical piracy.”
I generally adhere to the guideline “fuck over as few artists as possible; fuck over corporations as much as you can.”
ublock origin should still work, get firefox, tell your friends to get firefox, uninstall chromium browsers, do not support this by using google’s products, frankly
