I honestly don't know where I would be today, if it wasn't for piracy.
There's no way I'd be able to legitimately afford the materials needed to build the level of cultural literacy I in turn need for my field of study slash my job lol
right? Also, like, look at Adobe - there's no way they'd have their de-facto monopoly as a creative suite if it wasn't for teens'n'tweens learning photoshop on their own time with a pirated version in the early naughts. People got to create what they wanted to, learned some skills that for some eventually turned into a career and it's not like Adobe suffered for it lol
piracy is a net good for society, even a capitalist one, and I'll party on this hill
I hire for a job where Premiere is a required skill and haven’t met a single applicant under the age of 30 who didn’t start out “playing around with Adobe” when they were a teenager.
I mean, it's not just about the tools themselves, it's more about a generalized access to culture as a whole - US media specifically is so incredibly reference-ladden (and not just recently, though it has intensified) that you need to have seen, read, listened to 'the classics' and the 'b-sides' and the 'underground' and more, to truly get contemporary stuff with all the little throwaway lines and visual callbacks and hints at other, older media... there's barely enough time in a life to fit all that stuff in, let alone money to buy or rent it.
but yea, there's definitely room for improvement after the revolution lol
I honestly don't know where I would be today, if it wasn't for piracy. There's no way I'd be able to legitimately afford the materials needed to build the level of cultural literacy I in turn need for my field of study slash my job lol
yeah if i didnt get free games at young age i probably would be in an entirely different career
turns out i loved simulator games and that made me realize this career was for me
right? Also, like, look at Adobe - there's no way they'd have their de-facto monopoly as a creative suite if it wasn't for teens'n'tweens learning photoshop on their own time with a pirated version in the early naughts. People got to create what they wanted to, learned some skills that for some eventually turned into a career and it's not like Adobe suffered for it lol
piracy is a net good for society, even a capitalist one, and I'll party on this hill
I hire for a job where Premiere is a required skill and haven’t met a single applicant under the age of 30 who didn’t start out “playing around with Adobe” when they were a teenager.
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im an fbi agent of course, i got my inspiration from prison architect so i could help build up guantanamo
What if you were paid the true value of your labor, could you afford your tools then?
Revolution could be us but you playin'.
I mean, it's not just about the tools themselves, it's more about a generalized access to culture as a whole - US media specifically is so incredibly reference-ladden (and not just recently, though it has intensified) that you need to have seen, read, listened to 'the classics' and the 'b-sides' and the 'underground' and more, to truly get contemporary stuff with all the little throwaway lines and visual callbacks and hints at other, older media... there's barely enough time in a life to fit all that stuff in, let alone money to buy or rent it.
but yea, there's definitely room for improvement after the revolution lol
Digital tools cost very little to produce (compared to physical tools) so their price should reflect that, idealy.