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I really want to support the creators! But by paying for movie tickets or streaming services, very little of the money I pay goes to the creators. It mostly goes to the executives and financiers, or the megastar actors that I don't really care about.


Piracy gives zero money to the creators.


It also gives zero money to scum-sucking studios and labels and worthless bureaucrats that only give the author a 2% cut.


Not always, it has generated cult classics that have built a valuable fan base of support for many cases. Downstream it can increase in person popularity that wouldn’t otherwise exist.


Ah, this is like the "trickle down" theory of piracy.


It was the explicit policy of Bill Gates and others in regards to Asia.




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