It's one of those basic numbers game, a couple "dollars" a month per user doesn't affect anyone individually but it makes a huge difference to a successful project.Ī funded project also means the ability to work full-time on said project, maybe even get more people to work on it. People just need to understand that if they like a project they need to stop with that stupid mentality and just help out. Most of the encoding/decoding/codecs/ect used for the video/sound we use? Open source Libraries used by pirating sites or softwares? Open source
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This last one is usually not a problem but it is an example of how easily piracy would fall if the people in that community behaved the same way as the majority of the piracy community, by not funding anything.ĩ9% of the software or services we use to pirate is directly or indirectly funded by the open source community or private companies (a lot of free services are used, those are funded by the clients of whatever companies that setup said service). It's illegal so there's people actively trying to stop it, and it depends on another community, the afforementioned open source community. The piracy world only survives on top of that too with two added difficulties. I've been around the open source community for many many years, as a user and as a developer, and there too any major project only survives if people/users fund it, just because they want to, not because they have to, we never use ads and of course people understand that time and money will be spent without any expectation of payback or return, but we also expect that, assuming the project is useful to people, that they will help, this is the literal core of the community, be it with work (helping with the code, translations, documentation, etc) or donations (to pay for infrastructure or even to help you out for the extra time you're putting into it, as a thank you). People make these sites not expecting they'll have to fund it themselves, obviously, they already made the damn thing for people to use, people just need to lose the mentality that free things even exist since they don't. Ads aren't a problem, ads are simply a failed attempt at a solution.