Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑
Oh no synth is because computers are readily available and anybody can make music. Before you had to be more dedicated.
There still exists good musicians and productions, but they are not backed by big studios…
Which lead to your point. Big studios don’t like risks. They don’t want to be creative. Fine! No more big budget movies.
But a movie production is still expansive. Even low and good indie movies sometimes have a million dollar budget. That’s way more than the budget for a hobby for most people!
So how do we finance it? Governments, non profits? Sure… But still that is possible today and it is done, but it’s far from being a source of constant good movies.
And finally sure the diaspora of piracy is wide and large. Some are activists and do really important work such as scihub and libgen, but most people just pirate the latest marvel movie