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An inversion of Digital Piracy Is Evil, where downloading something not only doesn't mean you're a reprobate, but is actually encouraged by the artist. Compare Digital Distribution, for when they want you to download it but still expect you to pay for it. Beyond evangelism, reasons for this attitude may include boosting coverage and/or market share, sales of complementary goods, nurturing fan-added value, a dim view of copyright law, or the creator getting Screwed by the Network and looking to spite the company and/or deny them profits. See also Keep Circulating the Tapes and Information Wants to Be Free. Abandonware is a related concept, where circulating obsolete software is given a pass because the market for it literally doesn't exist anymore. Another big reason that popped up recently is due to shows being removed from their streaming services or games being removed from stores for what is considered greedynote like creating false scarcity by making them only available for a short period. or nonsensicalnote executives having Animation Age Ghetto mindsets reasons, as the digital age meant that physical copies usually don't exist. (Only add examples where the creator of a work has endorsed piracy of their own product. This is not a forum for discussion about piracy.) Examples |
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Fred Rogers, of all people, testified to the U. S. Supreme Court in favor of home video recording during a contentious case when the MPAA was arguing that personal recording devices like the VCR should be banned because they would kill the entire industry. Mr. Rogers simply stated the case that it would actually be beneficial to allow people to watch shows whenever was best for them. We all know how that turned out. | |
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After awhile, Bethesda pretty much ignored piracy of Arena and Daggerfall. Eventually, they made them full-fledged Freeware to Keep Circulating the Tapes. This is actually the basic stance of a fair portion of the gaming industry — the allowing element for the more careful portions of the Abandonware community is that more than a few companies or market organizations have more-or-less openly said they don't actually care about piracy if the game is old enough and not sold (Bethesda is not one of those — they were quite clear they didn't want Arena or Daggerfall to be pirated). |
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Carpe Fulgur has credited pirates with boosting the sales of Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, due to people who "have been 'demoing' the game and then purchasing it". | |
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In a similar vein to Jim, Ross Scott actively encourages piracy if the developers aren't getting any money from sales of the game, such as abandonware or disbanded teams. He was quick to endorse Night Dive Studios' re-vitalized release of Strife, though. | |
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When talking to Reddit about the game, Cruis'n USA programmer Eric Pribyl said "Please download the arcade game and share with anyone." | |
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Following the popularity of SiIvaGunner (a channel dedicated to making musical jokes under the guise of actual video game soundtrack rips, previously known as GiIvaSunner), many people became inspired to do their own take on the trend. However, in order to accurately recreate a track in its exact form (and then change the melodies and such), you need the original plugins/sample libraries/etc, which can be (and are most often) very expensive to buy (and, if dealing with old sample CDs, very difficult to legally acquire), so as a result the ethics and morality of piracy are often ignored in this regard. | |
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Machinae Supremacy has officially (and unofficially) released their music on The Pirate Bay and are proud supporters of file sharing. On-stage at MAGFest 2014, they even announced to members of the audience that if they haven't heard of them before, "don't worry, our music is on the Pirate Bay." | |
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When a Australian fan had requested to have Weird: The Al Yankovic Story be available in their country on a Twitter AMA, Yankovic tweeted a coded response suggesting to look on BitTorrent indexes until Roku obtains the territorial distribution rights. | |
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Jim Sterling has zig-zagged this. They have endorsed piracy for some works...but will lapse into the Digital Piracy Is Evil when DRM-free games like World of Goo report 90% piracy rates or when a good number of people still pirate the Humble Bundle despite its low price. To clarify: they're against it when the game in question is an indie game with no publisher that needs all the money it can get, but okay with it when the company who owns the IP is just a publisher and the money isn't going to the creator. They also released a video named "Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Sony's Games", released shortly after Sony announced they were going to shutter the PlayStation 3 and Vita's online storefronts later that yearnote A decision that was since reversed due to massive outcry, arguing that if Sony didn't want to make any money from legacy titles anymore, then you might as well pirate it. |
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Their 2007 album, In Rainbows, was famously released for sale online on a "pay-what-you-want" system, enabling fans to download it for free should they choose. There was a myriad of reasons for this move, with likely the most relevant being that based on the decline of physical media sales, piracy was on the rise anyway, so they might as well play into it in a way where they'd still be directly engaging with their audience (though they've since indicated that they will not pursue the model further). | |
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Mike Jittlov encourages people to watch The Wizard of Speed and Time on YouTube or download it and spread it around as long as they don't make a profit off it, since he lost the rights to producer Harvey Bookman and the film has never received a DVD release. | |
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Death Grips have released a sizable chunk of their discography as free downloads, but the most notable example is No Love Deep Web, which they leaked themselves due a dispute with their label about its release. | |
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Jim Davis gave Atari programmer Steve Woita (and by extension ROM sites) permission to distribute the unreleased Garfield game for the Atari 2600, which was to be released in 1984 if not for the The Great Video Game Crash of 1983, being that then-Atari boss Jack Tramiel wasn't that up to paying the royalties for the comic strip franchise while they were in dire straits. The only condition for this free release being that redistributed copies of the ROM should include a copyright notice from Paws, Inc. and that no reproduction cartridges or commercial re-releases can be made. | |
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In the last episode of Battle Programmer Shirase, the narrator thanks the viewers of Japan and the viewers overseas who were illegally downloading the show. | |
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Their 2003 album, Hail to the Thief was leaked by a third party before its release, which angered the band... not because it lost them revenue, but because they hadn't set the final mix yet, and that what had been circulated was an incomplete product. | |
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In Metal Saga, you can "illegally download" music from jukeboxes around the world, and nobody seems to care. Justified in that the people have more important things to worry about, such as all the assorted robots, monsters, and deadly criminals wandering what's left of the world. | |
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After unfinished material leaked, System of a Down said they didn't care if people downloaded their music, but requested that people wait until they were finished with it. One of their releases is called Steal This Album! and is even designed to look like a burned CD-R (pictured above). | |
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Roger Waters (formerly of Pink Floyd) doesn't mind fans who make and post videos of his The Wall 2012 shows. He only asked them not to whenever the show was being filmed for a DVD release. It wasn't because of piracy, but because the lights and flashes from their cameras would have a nasty effect on the projections. | |
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An issue of She-Hulk featured a cyborg shoplifting. The New Warriors showed up to catch her but couldn't believe she had broke in just to steal music albums, telling her instead to download them. | |
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Zacky Vengeance and Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold have made comments in favour of downloading music. Papa Gates (Syn's father) is in disagreement with his son on that, though. | |
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Disturbed has stated from time to time that, as much as Warner Music Group likes to make a fuss about it, the members of the band themselves don't care much about people downloading their songs. Linkin Park has the same viewpoint. When Minutes to Midnight was leaked, their only response was to advise people to listen to the tracks in order and ask that they buy the album anyway for all the non-musical stuff they put into it. |
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When people on piracy websites started complaining that their copies of Hotline Miami were having problems, the game's developers created threads offering free tech support, figuring that leaving the pirates with a buggy product would just make them even less likely to buy it. This worked to some extent, as many of the pirates who got their issues solved purchased the game as thanks. Later, when the sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number was banned in Australia, they encouraged Australian gamers to pirate it so they wouldn't miss out. | |
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Rob Swire of Pendulum and Knife Party fame encourages people to steal what they can't find on Beatport◊, mostly because he just wants people to be able to listen to his stuff. | |
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The author of Hero's Chains seeds a torrent of the first book. His stated opinion is that there's no difference between pirating his book and checking it out from a library. | |
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If Just Shapes & Beats detects that you're playing a pirated copy, it starts off by sarcastically informing you that "DOWNLOADING! PIRATED! GAMES! IS STEALING! duh duh duh STEALING! IS AGAINST! THE LAW!" The voice is then revealed to be that of Lachhh from the development team, who understands if the player pirated the game, admits he himself pirated games as well as a child because he didn't have the money to buy his games either, and only asks that you spread word of the game, the rationale being that if more people know about the game, some of those people who do have money will buy it. | |
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The developer of Paradigm commented on a torrent of the game, saying he knows some people legitimately can't afford it and is happy they have a chance to play it anyway. He even included some free Steam keys in his comment. | |
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He also encouraged people outside of the UK to torrent Black Mirror back before Netflix picked it up, as it was only available in Britain at the time. | |
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Stephen Ford, who played the main character in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, tweeted in early 2024 that he "fully fucking support[ed]" pirating the series, reasoning that so many people labored on something that was otherwise "basically impossible to find." | |
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Best Brains Inc., the guys who brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000, encouraged viewers to Keep Circulating the Tapes back in the before times when digital piracy was in its infancy. Even now they're still easy about it and want people to be able to get a hold of MST3K episodes which weren't released on DVD by allowing the Digital Archive Project to distribute most episodes and uploading a few themselves to Google Video. Newer distributors Shout! Factory seem to be keeping to a similar profile, uploading multiple full episodes to their YouTube channel, as well as notating them with explainations for some of the more obscure riffs. Ironic, considering their policies on some of the other properties they have distribution rights to (for example, Power Rangers and various Hasbro franchises To those confused... There is a reason for this "shift" in policy. While Best Brains Inc. were okay with MST3K being distributed outside their normal control, Toei and its beneficiaries under Super Sentai/Power Rangers and Hasbro are absolutely draconic with their protection of their intellectual properties, especially when it comes to selling merchandising. Ironically enough, both Toei and Hasbro have started to officially load episodes of their toku shows to YouTube, which will only cause more pirating.) It seems that in the case of various, they are a lot more lenient nowadays. The "keep circulating the tapes" thing originally started as a way to help popularize the show in the U.S. (Comedy Central was not available everywhere back then) and abroad (with the hosts giving the occasional Shout-Out to fans from places where the show didn't air, such as France). It was removed in Season 5 for legal reasons, but the tradition nevertheless carried on. |
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In Transhuman Space, this is the basic concept behind "infosocialism", a political movement that opposes copyright enforcement based on socialist theory. The development of this into "nanosocialism", which became the dominant power in the Transpacific Socialist Alliance, has resulted in the TSA being seen as a "pirate's paradise" in the WTO countries. The game itself avoids expressing an opinion on any of this, just saying that these are the things some people in the setting believe. | |
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The Kaiju Preservation Society: The KPS is specifically allowed to share downloaded media freely at their Kaiju Earth bases, to help the teams deal with the stresses of a six-month tour of duty on a Death World. | |
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RiffTrax often appends a message on movie riffs stating essentially that if somebody's watching the riff on the Internet or on some other format without having paid for it, they're encouraged to donate something to the site through the donate page. This isn't couched in terms of "you have to make restitution for what you stole you dirty thieves" so much as "we want to have the same 'keep circulating the tapes' ethic we had with MST3K, but we do like eating and paying our mortgages as well..." | |
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For the most part it seems the indie game makers don't mind piracy. When Giant Bomb discussed McPixel (see above), they noted that due to their smaller budgets most only need to sell a few thousand in order to turn a profit. As such, indie game makers are likely to view small amounts of piracy as a way to potentially spread the word about the game. | |
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When asked about Game of Thrones being widely pirated, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes expressed his optimism towards illegal file sharing. While he certainly wouldn't outright offer the series for free, he opined that the widespread recognition the series earned through piracy is "better than an Emmy." The show was HBO's most pirated series, but its first season was the best-selling DVD of 2012. | |
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K.K. Slider from Animal Crossing personally gives out bootleg copies of his songs after performing them, having a clear hatred for his record label and "selling out" in general. In the earlier games, this is actually the only way to obtain then, but even in Animal Crossing: New Horizons where you can buy them he still hands out free copies after concerts. | |
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In Shadowrun, all the point of view characters are Shadowrunners who have no problem pirating entertainment because it's all megacorp produced anyway. One 4th Edition sourcebook had Fastjack talking with the other characters about how he'd recently tried, just for the hell of it, to pay for and download a movie legally instead of pirating it like he normally did. The excessive amount of DRM that the megacorp had put on it meant that it took far longer than the movie was before he could even watch it. His conclusion was that when you make it harder to get something legally than illegally, then naturally it left people with little incentive to do things the legal way. And that the middle management idiots responsible for making it so hard to watch a movie you've already paid for should be punched in the junk. | |
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Quite early in the main rulebook for CthulhuTech, it gives you a short "If You Downloaded This Book" lecture, saying, in short, "If you like it, buy it, otherwise we'll likely go out of business". Several sourcebooks later, this seems to have worked. | |
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Notch has said that he is OK with some people pirating Minecraft, and is a member of the Pirate Party It helps that pirated copies can only play single player, or with each other, while the paid version can play with everyone, so the non pirated product is better. This attitude does not reflect Mojang's official stance, however, especially since the new launcher for the game now checks to see whether or not you are a legit user. Of course, you can use a cracked launcher, but then you lose the ability to play with paying customers. |
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The designers of Eclipse Phase offer free PDFs of their game modules on their personal blogs. And they seem to be Anarchists judging from their tendency to gush about the Anarchist faction in the game, who incidentally have no respect for copyrights (even the anarcho-capitalists). | |
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It seems that in the case of various, they are a lot more lenient nowadays. | |
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Newer distributors Shout! Factory seem to be keeping to a similar profile, uploading multiple full episodes to their YouTube channel, as well as notating them with explainations for some of the more obscure riffs. Ironic, considering their policies on some of the other properties they have distribution rights to (for example, Power Rangers and various Hasbro franchises To those confused... There is a reason for this "shift" in policy. While Best Brains Inc. were okay with MST3K being distributed outside their normal control, Toei and its beneficiaries under Super Sentai/Power Rangers and Hasbro are absolutely draconic with their protection of their intellectual properties, especially when it comes to selling merchandising. Ironically enough, both Toei and Hasbro have started to officially load episodes of their toku shows to YouTube, which will only cause more pirating.) It seems that in the case of various, they are a lot more lenient nowadays. |
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Mark E. Smith and The Fall encouraged fans to make their own recordings of live shows. | |
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On a episode of CSI the Kid Rock-like musician played by Kid Rock has his next album leaked by one of his staffers. This placed him at number one on the suspect list, until he proved that the staffer leaked it on his own orders. A leaked album means more tickets sales. | |
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Encouraged by Iron Maiden when they performed in Gothenburg in 2005, a concert which aired live in the Scandinavian countries. | |
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The creators of the film The Man from Earth encouraged people to download the movie using BitTorrent. | |
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The South Park episode "Christian Rock Hard" has Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, upon being told by the FBI that Digital Piracy Is Evil, start a strike that is supported by several high profile musicians like Metallica and Britney Spears. After the strike goes nowhere and Cartman's band proceeds to sell a million albums, they realize how senseless it was. The boys conclude that real musicians should create music for the sake of creativity and the satisfaction of having fans should be more important than money. Plus, people will always find a way to obtain the songs for free and even then, bands can still make a lot of money from touring and merchandising. Ultimately, it's better to lean into it than try to fight it. | |
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Streetlight Manifesto doesn't care if you buy the album from them or torrent it, they just don't want their record label getting any money. Frontman Tomas "Toh Kay" Kalnoky talks about it here. | |
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The developers of Thrill Kill released the game on the Internet themselves after being bought out by Electronic Arts, who cancelled the game at the last minute (and refused to sell it to anyone else) due to fears of Moral Guardians. | |
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Maid RPG encourages people who pirated the PDF to try the game out, and if they like it, to buy it and support the translator. | |
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In Freedom Planet, a hidden, unused message can be found in the game's audio files where Lilac and Carol acknowledge the game was being pirated (according to Torque's radar). They outright say to the player that they're "not in trouble" and they have no problem letting them enjoy the game, but they do ask the player to consider donating money to the developers to support them. This is the message when assembled. | |
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One of the DVD commentaries for Family Guy has the staff take a friendly jab at people who illegally downloaded the DVD, saying "For the people who illegally downloaded this DVD, you little peckers, we know where you are!" | |
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Before Simon Viklund released an official soundtrack for the video game PAYDAY: The Heist, a few people ripped music from the game and uploaded them online. After the soundtrack became official, Simon did not mind that his music was uploaded to other sites and believes that those versions acted as previews to his work and people would still buy his soundtrack if they liked it enough. | |
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Quadro Delta initially released the full game of Pixel Piracy as a torrent and incited people to download it. | |
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Armin Van Buuren has been very supportive of streaming services and although he's stated that fans should support artists through paying for the music, he also has criticized the industry for not embracing new ways for reaching out to prospective new listeners. It probably helps that his (and many other DJs for that matter) chief income comes from concerts and the festivals he plays at. | |
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There is a webserver hosting all of Rammstein's early work. When asked to take it down by various lawyers (several times a year), the owners respond with a personal letter from the band who allowed them to host it since long before they were as famous as they are now, and they are still fine with it. | |
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