90% of the people I know are not what most hackers would qualify as makers. Think of like teachers, who use it at home after work to make something cute for their classroom or a friend.
By going this route, they almost certainly make more money.
You do realize this is called Hacker News, right? People in here enjoy hacking things. We don't all consider the utility of every activity based on how many dollars per hour we value our time.
> Many would also argue that the majority of people that hang out here are not "hackers" but instead "developers that (mostly) know how to get shit done."
Yet this is called Hacker News, and hackers usually like to, well, hack and work around stuff just because they can.
It's one of the nice things of knowing how technology works, and as long as it's doable only by technical people it's probably not a big issue for IP / content creators (I'm considering adding an extension from source a technical task).
As long as you don't commoditize piracy too much, it's fine.
By going this route, they almost certainly make more money.
Hacker news users are not normal users.
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