Piracy hurts no one. The only ones who ever cry about it are rich celebrities or corporations that don't suffer...

2014-2015 I think. It burned out after a few months and only cancerous ecelebs or Holla Forumsirgin autism kept it going for twitter fights. It's legacy gave us fags like milo and sargon as ecelebs for edgy rightcucks and an eternal boogeyman for liberals.

I'm not sure if you're an effort troll or just that fucking retarded.
We don't give a fuck about goomergoop, fuck off, go back to Reddit.

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Piracy is fantastic. Not only does it hurt the bottom line of the capitalist, it's also actual communism. Real communism existing in the same world we live in. While it does that it shows up a lot of myths that get bandied about regarding communism and its appearance in society.

First, it's resilient. It doesn't need Uncle Joe or anyone else looking out for it. Communism is such an obviously superior form of organising the economy that it actively eats away at capitalist productive relations whenever it appears.

Second, it's spontaneous and complete (within its domain). We never had a period of 'piratical socialism'. We just went straight from having all-capitalist media distribution to having communist media distribution gnawing away at capitalism.

Third, it didn't require a crisis. There was no grand crisis in film or music profitability. Nothing had to collapse for communism to appear here. We didn't have to sit around on our asses waiting for the world to come crashing down around our ears to get something done. Communism just came along out of the clear blue sky when the conditions were ripe for it.

Fourth, it didn't need to happen everywhere all at once. Communism has arrived, not as a monolithic entity that sweeps the world in a cleansing revolutionary holocaust, but as a fleck on a few disparate industries that grows exponentially. Who would have thought that communism would destroy the encyclopedia industry, eat into the movie industry's profits a bit, and simply sit there like an indestructible lump while we figure out how to spread it into food, water, and industrial design?

Fifth, we can do it so much, that people mostly do it without expecting to. Communism appeared in media distribution as a result of human activity, but not consciously communist human activity. Regular people just switched to the communist mode en masse once the platform to allow them to do so had been created. Imagine how much more we could accomplish if we, as communists, decided to consciously intervene to usher in the communist mode of production in other parts of the economy?

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Communism is here, now, so we should drop all the ridiculous other shit and figure out how to extend it into the realm of physical production. And don't give me that 'muh scarcity' shit, the food, energy, labour, and resource supplies of today's world are exactly as limited as bandwidth and processing power are - which is to say technically finite, but more than enough to provide for everyone's wants. All we need to do is figure out how to effectively co-ordinate production for use.

Underrated post.

I'm not sure why someone thought it was necessary to start a thread to state the obvious.

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And beat back the enemies that want to strangle communism in the cradle. Pirating is a good example: every time an accessible platform and method is invented, the capitalist powers start going after it, trying to sabotage it, and throwing up barriers for the less technically literate user. So, it does need people to look out for it.

Don't think the ever growing sigint security state will not eventually be turned against online piracy. And so it is with every other fight for communism. That's why it is always a fight, people have to work and risk their freedom to maintain or establish it.

You completely missed the real reason why communism can beat capitalism in the digital world but not in the material world:
the nature of the means of production
That is all that is needed to understand the prevailing economic systems throughout history.

Communism wins in the digital realm because the only scarcity is artificial. Copying and sharing are essentially free. The means of production are already in the hands of the people, so it is natural that communism would emerge.

In the physical world everyone is fighting over scarce resources. Significant effort is required to create resources given the right tools, and even greater effort is required to create those tools and the infrastructure to support them. People defend the exploitative system of capitalism because they don't want to share the scraps they have managed to gather. We can see from game theory that while the super-rational solution is to share resources (communism), the rational solution is to fight tooth and nail for them (capitalism).

Until we can decouple human labor from resource production, we're not going to see communism win in the real world in the same way it has won in the digital world.

One of the broad goals of the /leftytech/ group is to construct a computerized in-kind calculator and otherwise assist the open source hardware movement (which is nascent and trying to accomplish what you're talking about). It relies upon 3D printing, free communistic exchange, and Lego-like compatibility between parts. Extremely interesting stuff which I only just learned about. The Global Village Construction Set already has operational industrial machines at a small fraction of what their conventional marketed alternatives cost (~1/8 cost for most, IIRC). If we could mechanize the whole thing and make it large-scale in production, imagine how low the production prices could go!

Already, physical productive capacity is at such a point (and has been for a while now) where we could easily install communism in the physical realm as well as in the digital one. It is the artificial scarcity of capitalism, upheld by state and property, which keeps us from doing this by means of artificial scarcity. Thus, the first step in applying communization theory is to create collectives to take advantage of new tech such as 3D printing to start to challenge this forced-capitalist regime. We see communization naturally taking place in the digital realm because there hasn't been (and is only now developing) a strict state-guarded precedent of property laws which can be feasibly enforced. With the corralling and sanitizing of the Internet into a few mega-sites like Twitter and Facebook and Google, this is now taking place. Primitive accumulation, in the form of gathering up more users to be used as means of production through their social activity guiding advertising, is proceeding at breakneck pace. We live in a unique moment. If I had been aware of this and old enough to do something in the years before, I might have started a project to stop it, but I'm not entirely sure if it's possible now.

I really do hope there's more resistance to this somehow though, since even lolberts reject this kind of internet fuckery. Every time I've heard about some way they want to crack down on piracy or mess with the internet in some way, I only grow to despise capitalism more. We need a pirate coalition.

By January it had pretty much burnt out since the journalist websites we were after released ethics statements and the SJWs had been sufficiently defamed and humiliated. The goal was a) to expose the clique trying to push their politics onto video games and the extents of their ties, b) to reform and/or defame video game journalism, and c) make their views about "changing" video games unpopular and by January all that had happened. The only people who cared from that point onward were people who legitimately thought "SJWism" could or should be eradicated and that gradually that came to mean "cultural Marxism" due to Holla Forums's input and a small contingent of people that thought GG was a great showing of discontentment with the whole system that could be generalized into a fight against corruption and lies (me). That's when I left.

This is a minor lolcow who obsesses over GG for some reason. You can see more of his work here: 8ch.net/leftypol/res/1640229.html

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's some dipshit lolberal who bought into the "MYSOGNYN!!! RAPE!!!" side of the dumbass e-war and can't let go.

The point is not about profits but about porky forcing people into paying for the effortless act of copying a digital file.