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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 145966, member: 1510"] Boycotting generally does not work. It [I]feels good[/I] to do it, and you get to [I]feel like[/I] you are winning, but you [I]just don't[/I]. Nestlé is the most boycotted company in the world, and have been for decades, and yet the boycotts have barely made a dent in their success because hardly anyone knows why they are boycotted and most aren't even effected by what they do wrong or even know if they are. (If you need to ask why they are boycotted, you've proven my point.) A boycott only works under specific circumstances: the audience who buys the product is made up entirely of people directly effected by the negative consequences of the actions of the producer of the product, and thus stops buying the product because they are horrified by the results. Examples: [LIST] [*][I]Cats[/I] only appeals to musical fans, and to some degree LGBT people. The movie absolutely trashed everything fans liked about it (including heterosexualizing the gay characters). Thus, the only people who had a high likelihood of seeing it did not, and it was one of the biggest failures in film history. [*]Electric cars only sell well in the US to people who lean politically left. If you've payed attention to the news, you get where I'm going with that. [/LIST] So with AI art, the people directly effected by it are the artists, while the paying audience are mostly non-artists. So you are never going to get enough of the non-artist crowd to boycott to have any real effect. Big difference. A big corporation makes huge amounts of money off of other people's labor. And piracy doesn't even negatively effect them: there's a lot of proof that it actually encourages more purchases. (SMT, Live A Live, and various other JP-only games have become more popular outside of Japan because of piracy, and made bank off of that.) At this point, companies are "fighting" piracy moreso to maintain control of IP rights than to make money off the individual sales they "miss out on". Meanwhile, individual artists don't have tons of cash, don't have control over super-popular IPs, and usually rely on commission work. If the big corporations that lord over the IP world don't hire them, they are out of a job and have nothing to fall back on. This isn't about "feefees" (🙄), it's about survival. No one gives a damn about the survival of a corporation's "legal personhood". They aren't human, and they have more money than some countries. But people do care about actual human beings that are at risk of losing their jobs. That isn't hypocritical; that's having a more advanced and nuanced moral framework than fallacious whataboutism and nonsensical absolutism. [/QUOTE]

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