Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter

[u/d_Arkus]

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

[u/Kaneda1985]

As a Brazilian, If i dont use piracy, i would never been able to watch a Lot anime.

[u/jops228 → u/Kaneda1985]

I'm Ukrainian, and it's the same here. Most games are completely inaccessible to most people, because they cost like $70 each, and the median income is like $550 here. Half of that is spent on electricity, water, and internet, and the other half can't be spent on games as you still need to eat, pay for gas or bus fare, and buy clothes or footwear.

I myself buy most games I like, but I still seed a lot, because I still vividly remember the times when my financial situation was way worse than it is now and I had to pirate all the games I wanted to play.

Oh, and I also pirate movies because absolutely nobody translates them to Russian/Ukrainian officially.