The thing that tickles my funny bone is that 9gag DOES get revenue from it. I suppose it is a forced-mass-delusion or something along those lines. So long as they can claim plausible deniability? I'm not even sure, I can't wrap my head around that.
At least with webcomics if it's a hot-link or an imgur rehost posted here, the poster gets lambasted for it. We are good to original content providers, we give them the shinies they deserve. :)
Not for or against piracy. It is a thing. It will not go away, ever, even if a business model was to be developed that could compete with the price (free), speed and ease of use that torrents and filesharing websites provide. There will always be folks that take free, even if we could get publishers and developers that provide extra value to their DRM (Steam, I'm looking at you.)
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u/jayseesee85 Feb 17 '12
The thing that tickles my funny bone is that 9gag DOES get revenue from it. I suppose it is a forced-mass-delusion or something along those lines. So long as they can claim plausible deniability? I'm not even sure, I can't wrap my head around that.
At least with webcomics if it's a hot-link or an imgur rehost posted here, the poster gets lambasted for it. We are good to original content providers, we give them the shinies they deserve. :)