Ahoy my fellow pirates. Is there any site like Kemono for DeviantArt Premium Galleries? I found this one creator on the platform but all his good stuff is behind a 10$ (!) paywall for every “Gallery” of his. Bad is that they aren’t only images but videos that I need, so there is that. Does anyone here know of some site of this kind?
P.S. The author also doesn’t have a patreon or anything like that. He only posts to DA.
Edit: He also locks 95% of his stuff behind a 20$ (!) subscription on top of these galleries. You can’t even access the old premium galleries if you buy the sub.
Pirating content from creators especially indies is typically discouraged.
Pirating from corporations however🤘🤙
So this virtue signalling travelled from Reddit to lemmy too huh
Piracy, is a reaction to corpo greed. It challenges the notion that essential tools, education, and entertainment should be locked behind paywalls many can’t afford. It pushes back against monopolies that exploit consumers with inflated prices, restrictive DRM, and predatory subscription models. When corporations prioritize profits over people, piracy becomes a form of resistance–a way to reclaim access to what should be available to all regardless of economic background or means.
Piracy isn’t about harming small indie creators or stealing their work. To call it virtue signaling is to completely miss the point, lil bro. If that’s the way you think you’re not a Pirate you’re just a thief.
EDIT: The reading comprehension here seems incredibly low. Corporations aren’t people–piracy isn’t theft because you can’t steal IP from corporations. My post doesn’t remotely suggest that Piracy is theft from corporations. Piracy from indie creators, however, is theft because it harms a person, not a corporation.
It’s not a difficult concept.
Piracy isn’t theft though.
That’s exactly what corporations want people to think about piracy.
In addition to what you wrote, piracy is also a form of dissent against copyright laws.
Why would you reply without reading my entire post? Like why? What do you get out of it?
Plenty of indie content from Bandcamp on RED and OPS.
For some people piracy is also about archival and preservation.
yea, preserving deviantart is not a focus like anywhere as far as I know, and hopefully the artist themselves do, but it’s vague. It does match with how historically art has usually been a big job to try and preserve once the artist is dead.
For preserving music (since you mention bandcamp) I recommend supporting your local library; an here’s a list of some US music libraries. https://www.american-music.org/page/Libraries
Most nations do have some type of music archive as well, and it’s not like software which faces legal issues for historical preservation.