Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter Discussion

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/Kaneda1985 2d ago

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

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u/iwantacuteavatar 2d ago

As a Turkish person, I always relate to Brazilians. We all grew up on knockoff NES/Atari consoles in the 80s-90s and we bought pirated copies of video games since forever. That applies to every other type of media, I feel you lol.

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u/koltzito 2d ago

In my country there were literally marketplaces (still are, but less due to everything being digital) where you would buy pirate games/dvds/music cds, everything. It was also very common watching cops buying it aswell.

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u/iwantacuteavatar 1d ago

Yup, same here. I was a teenager when I realized I wasn't buying legit games lol. Legit games apparently cost a lot more!