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@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat You can talk all about how things could potentially play out, or you can look back at history where crime and theft have ravaged the world and also see that the act of creation hasn't died out because of it. There's no link between theft and the death of creativity.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Again though, I don't see a convincing link between the infringement of private property and the destabilization of society. I don't see how humanity is endangered when a digital product is copied and distributed to places it was never intended to be sold in.

It always comes back to this bruh

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat An action doesn't automatically threaten society and its people just because it's illegal. There's more nuance to the debate than this, and why simple appeals to legality are falling very flat with westerners.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat I do believe the law is meant for that. That's why, ideally, it shouldn't be as strictly enforced in cases where no threat to society or persons is present. This piracy debate has a similar nuance, because societies don't crumble and people don't die thanks to piracy.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat When you say "法を守らないということは、社会の継続や人の生存を脅かす行為だ。", the translation is showing me "Breaking the law is an act that threatens society's continuity and people's survival." Is this accurate?

@appropriant @NuniVonBat いえしていませんね、法律は社会の継続性と人の生存のためにあると言いました。 つまり社会の継続性と人の生存の方が重要です。 車が間違いなくいない時に渡って人の生存が脅かされますか？ しかし、海賊版は人の生存や社会の継続性を脅かします。

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Your answer to that example might be yes they absolutely should be punished. Others would say that it's not worth accosting the offender, like I would say. This is a similar to how people are viewing the piracy debate.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat My example is relevant because your argument hinges on the assumption that broken laws threaten the stability and survivability of society. Crossing a red light is clearly illegal and should be punished because it infringes on the rule of law, as you have emphasized before.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Regardless of legality most people probably wouldn't bother trying to stop you because the harm done by this action is negligible, if not outright nonexistent. I believe this to be the crux of the attitude towards piracy between east and west communities. No law is created equal.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat At the heart of it, this isn't actually about lawbreaking; it's a moral judgment. If the intersection is empty in the middle of the night and the light is red, do you wait until the light is green to cross the street? If you cross anyway, should that be punishable by law?

@hasinome @light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Now that population is much smaller today. The amount of people who pirate anime and games from Japan has fallen significantly because of how accessible it is today. The untrustworthy folk won't ever disappear completely, but they've always been the minority.

@hasinome @light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Much of the international market for Japanese media would not exist as it does today had we been complicit with Japanese creators denying access; nearly all of its origins trace back to piracy because it was the only means of access. It was pretty huge back then.

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat Essentially, "What does it matter to you how the international audience should behave if you're not even directing your business towards them in the first place? What potential market are we harming when it will never exist?"

@light_routine4 @NuniVonBat The western attitude towards the company's decision would be: "I disagree that there's no return because I and others would have gladly paid for it. And if there's no reasonable expectation of it ever getting sold, then you should not be expecting returns anyways if we pirate."

@KB_Kero @thatsNOTventi "bitch" is singular, "bitches" is plural. But "bitches" doesn't complete the rhyme scheme of the team name, so it remains as "bitch" and can refer to either Prune or Durin.

@thatsNOTventi English is really a language that exists because I don't know if the last person is plural or if it's Prune or Durin

I can't with this team name

On top of the AI translator seemingly learning the nuance of reactionary twitter dialect, it's just the perfect storm of opening up new and improved ways to be mad on Twitter.

In relation to all the EN/JP piracy discourse I've been seeing the past few days

how is everyone’s linneas doing 1M damage bro