Fandom Problem #15,998:
When people assume consuming content = paying for it and doing it within earshot of anyone else, thus spreading awareness of it and financially supporting the creator or IP holder.
Dude. I'm not into media where this is a point of contention, but if I'm in my room on my laptop, and I get morbidly curious about a movie that has a bigoted or racist creator, and I download a torrent of it and watch it, how in the actual heck does that either financially support the creator or IP holder, or raise awareness of it? You can bet your ass the torrent provider isn't going to report their stats and go "yeah, 500 people downloaded your movie this month!", and there's no chance of someone from the company snooping if it's a private tracker. Even streaming sites like wmovie aren't going to just ship all their view stats off to the creators and holders lol, and they certainly aren't making money for them, so I ask, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound? Logic, people. For the love of shit.
