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Tallinn, Estonia (by Filippo)

if you moralize to people in the global south about piracy youre going to hell btw. no atonement no take backsies. guaranteed hell forever permanently.

feluka

omg there's a newborn in the notes

falloutnewvegastransedmygender

Look for all my fellow ass backwards Americans and the European as well, let me tell you a story.

A few years ago me and a Brazilian friend (they/them) had a joke that I owed them a sandwich because they burned one while in a VC with me.

A year later I sent $20 USD to them for the bit, about what I paid for my lunch at Subway at the time (before tips).

They texted me worried about how much money I sent them and if I was sure. Because with the exchange rate at the time, that was almost 100 BRL. I had assumed 1 BRL simply bought less (in local goods), turns out the pricing is, well its close enough that it is about 100 in spending power equivalent.

It is my understanding (though I could CERTAINLY be wrong) that Brazil is one of the nations in the Global South that is doing better relatively, and also that the exchange rate has worsened for BRL since.

However, many game devs simply set the price in USD and then forces everyone to pay that price. You know how some books have a slightly higher price listed in CAD if its printed on? Imagine if instead of like, 20 USD 22 CAD that book cost 100-120 CAD. That would be absurd right?

If you can't see the problem with condemning piracy in the Global South after that explanation, then I suppose you're deserving of whatever shit lands in your lap next.

jam-does-audio

Also, just for the record, we get you a lot more stuff than you realize. A lot of whistleblowers/ leaks/media archiving is done in the global South/spreads from there. It's a genuine underground and public industry that a lot of us grew up learning to do and it matters. Because yea, the system is designed to make media completely impossible to afford

r0zeclawz

i'm brazilian and i can confirm this is entirely correct. if you gave me like say, 200 USD, that would be enough for me to pay for my rent and groceries and meds and then some, it's insane. but it also goes the other way around, like with the game pricing example. since so many products we get here are imported, a lot of especially electronics are incredibly expensive. imagine if you wanted a nintendo switch, but it costed 2000 dollars and also each game is like 300. thats just how it is here. its pretty dire

wrtrgrl-spacewitch

I’d like to point out that it’s not just the cost either. Even if you save up and pay the absurd cost (as I’ve done), to get the media, you then have to wait for the geolock release.

There’s a show we love in my household. I prepaid for the season. Then I had to wait SIX weeks for it to air in Australia AFTER it had aired in the US.

Do you know how hard it is to avoid spoilers on the internet if you’ve even remotely engaged in a fandom on any platform? I had to block the show from multiple platforms and I still saw a major spoiler.

Because Australia wasn’t allowed to have the release at the same time as America. No we had to wait six weeks for… what? The original tapes to be shipped here? Who knows.

I know people who have paid for the content and then pirated so they didn’t see spoilers. I know people who have searched and searched and contacted authors to be able to pay for copies of their books only to be told they aren’t available in Australia or they don’t ship here.

It’s not like we do it for no reason. Access and availability are big issue here. Price is a big issue here.