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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m a big fan of paying the people who make things for me.

    But digital piracy is the only thing keeping archive copies of obscure media around today. Even libraries aren’t keeping up. Plenty of media creators have revived their thing that found an audience after decades forgotten - through piracy, and only successfully revived it thanks to archivist pirates, since they had thrown that thing away.

    It’s not black and white.

    Patronage funding, early access, streamlined delivery, and white glove support are the funding models that are working for creatives today.