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Indeed, the media companies deserve their money. The artists should be grateful for the opportunity to become famous even if they don't make that much money and we should all pay to see the same Marvel movie rewritten 10 times. Nothing better exists in this world.

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That is not what I was discussing at all.

You can justify it to yourself however you want, but normal people, like you and I, work on movies, books, games, etc. Like us, they also need to get paid. It is entitlement to not want to pay for their work yet still consume it, and it's also dismissive of the huge amount of work that actually goes into the production of media.

edit: kindly stop completely changing your comments with shadow-edits.

My apologies, I shouldn't have started that discussion in the first place. Losing grip on emotions is terrible.

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