You wake up the lound clanging and the sound of heavy construction coming from your kitchen
When you enter, you see a dozen kobolds in OSHA regulation safety gear installing a strange series of copper tubes and glass plating above your stove. Before you can speak, they scatter like a crowd of hooligans spotted by a cop.
Beside the tubes is a pannel with a big blue botton, and a text label still covered by its plastic dust cover:

BURGER

been exploring possibilities of a new fursona design, have had the idea of a calico-coated corgi on my mind for a bit so here it is semi-realized! and my apple pencil has been on the fritz lately so this is a combo of mostly traditional and digital

• Apple removed disc drives from their machines at a critical junction in time in their fucked up race to be E V E R T H I N N E R

• this made Microsoft go "hey, if the overpriced hipster bullshit brand isn't doing drives any longer, we don't need to go to any efforts either, so let's not pay for that bluray license"

• which means there's no easy way to play bluray media on a computer without installing garbage bloatware rootkit third party software, so most people don't bother

• streaming ghouls swoop in backed by vulture capital

• everyone pats themselves on the back that "nobody's buying physical media any longer, but it's fine, streaming will solve the problem forever"

• having gotten a big enough foothold, streaming ghouls stop offering actually interesting stuff

• you can't actually watch a large swathe of movies and TV series any longer, because where are you going to find the physical media?

Q E fucking D

genuinely: the only option is piracy. even if you have moral qualms. you know how it's impossible to get attention of corporations these days unless you've already demonstrated the ability to assemble your own audience? That's straight up what piracy is at this point. You know there's people at all these corps paying attention to what's getting pirated for moral outrage/hoping to get a payout reasons, but those people are also those most in tune with what demands the market isn't currently serving. If you want something to succeed that isn't addressed in the current market, piracy is the only option. Ideally then also pay for it when they make it available, but even if you don't, others will. So: Pirate stuff to save the art you most care about. Thank you.