The corpos:

"This is outrageous! This is unfair!"

as long as they pay

To who?

To the IP licensors? Nah. Pass. Prefer piracy.

To the creators? Arguably much better.

How to control intermediaries in those cases?

Also payment processor information usually requires KYC crap and puts people in lots of danger of fire from trigger-happy companies (or governments).

I am not married to any particular language's syntax choices but sure if we want to play "make it feel like C++":

std::cpp26::string a : std::cpp26::make_unique( std::cpp26::string{} );

I could try and pass it through a number of iostreams or a to_array conversion to see if I can push a to_string() in somewhere...

String a: new String()

That's the part we have to combat. The idea that being a fan of something means any contribution you do to the fandom has to be treated as essentially unpaid workforce for the franchise. In truth, it's nothing in the fact that you are a fan, but rather the fact that the thing you are a fan of is defended by some of the vilest scume of the earth (lawyers) that is a problem.

Down with copyright law!

I was gonna make a pun, but I'm not in any hurry for it to come out.

Nothing in any of those three words precludes payment (it's work after all) but it's still notoriously scummy. A donation jar would make far more sense.

To be fair, it’s entirely reasonable to be able to expect that paying money for something should get you the thing you paid for.

Fam, it's 2025, the last time what you say was entirely reasonable was, what, 1986?

GOS has lots of time to - even before their very own conception - to see the writing on the wall.

Sure, Karen.

I liked the (first four) movies. Honestly awesome if short Alan Rickman screentime. I pirated them. I watch hem whenever I want, not when you think I have to be a soldier for your cause, and that bitch still don't get a cent from me.

Like, sure, conveniently I won't have any spare time to rewatch them this month, but that's because life is busy not becuse you think you're right.

In English I guess it would be something like "mother-in-law".

This is the kind of content I got to lemmy for.

Joke's on you, at the work I'm in we are running a project 32 months late.