“Good movie about space wizards sells well. Producers milk it til long after it’s dry.”

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The joke of the comic, as it also turns out, is that the two Cueballs dressed up as ninjas were just out to have a fun time teasing Stallman, and they seemed to know that Stallman’s paranoia about Microsoft makes him sleep with no fewer than two katana swords near his bed. This type of sword was one of the traditionally made Japanese swords that were used by the samurai of feudal Japan mainly as a sidearm. A ninja or more accurately a Shinobi no mono was basically special forces in feudal Japan. They specialized in espionage, sabatoge, etc. they were a rough combination of MI6, CIA, and Navy SEAL in feudal japan. Although they did not specialize in assassinations, that is something that they could do. Although samurai could also be shinobi/ninjas if they chose to do that job, samurai is a social class while shinobi no mono/ninjas were a job, not a social class. So this makes sense in this comic with Stallman, the samurai, and the ninjas, the lackeys of the oppressing Microsoft (at least in his mind). It also turns out that they specifically choose targets for their raids who have reason to be paranoid of larger companies that might send someone after them, and thus sleep with weapons near their beds. Stallman has received a Katana due to this comic (see the trivia section).

If explaining a joke “kills” it, this violates every single article of the Geneva Convention, and then goes on to commit acts of war so indescribably inhumane that the authors never even considered them (lest their tongues burst into flame on the spot).

Jokes aside, I love ExplainXKCD and have had to check it more times than I’d like to admit.

Art/media is part of the world/history

And they are created by human beings, who have every right to decide what their creations are worth to them and under what terms other people can use their creations. I whittled a pretty cool dragon out of a stick once. It’s technically part of the world/history. That doesn’t mean anyone else has a right to it.

Let us pay for things and have them, it’s that simple.

Absolutely, if I am willing to sell you that thing for the price you are offering. If I am not, then the deal doesn’t go through. That is how deals work. You cannot rent a car for $60/day and then decide “actually I’m going to keep this forever.” That was not the deal you agreed upon.

Once it cannot be sold it should be publically available if someone who has it wants to make it so

Yes, I agree. In this case, though, the person who “has it” is the owner. Not the person who signed a deal saying “I myself will use this under the terms we have both agreed upon” and then proceeds to break those terms. Copyright law (in the US) is bullshit and needs a whole lot of reform, but if we’re talking about media made recently? By a still living human? Yes, they should own what they create.

but many pirates are productive members of society or couldn’t buy to begin with

Yes, I imagine this applies to both you and I as pirates. But as a productive member of society, I am fully aware that I am not entitled to anything owned by anyone else. I will not die if I don’t see that new movie I want to, and I am aware of that. I know that me pirating is both immoral and illegal, and directly hurts others. I am willing to admit that.

I have no legal option to own you. Is it moral, then, for me to turn to illegal means to own you?

Now replace “you” with “content you created”, and tell me how it’s different.

This is some boss battle shit:

The King of Florida

Source of all Cringe

And then a health bar that just extends through all the colors of the rainbow.

Edit: I see now that it’s “The King of Lorda”, but I stand by what I said.