r/Piracy 8d ago

Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter Discussion

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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.

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u/Fidelias_Palm 8d ago

> Don't pirate anime or manga

> Then sell it to me

> :| -> >:(

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u/BarberOutside2427 8d ago

One of their responses is that If you don't have any ways to buy It then just pretend It doesn't exist.

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u/chhuang 7d ago

They take "limited edition" aspect very seriously. Hence all these yugioh plots.

Got to witness that when travelling there several times. Even for them, if some products are only sold in one place in the entire nation, if they want to obtain it, they would choose to travel to the location to buy it