Same. I stopped pirating music and games because Deezer and Steam are so convenient, but as long as there isn’t a way to watch most movies and shows on a single service, I won’t stop pirating. The music industry figured it out and all music streaming services have more or less the same catalog; why can’t movie studios do the same?
Maybe because producing music costs pennies compared to producing movies and then people are much likely to listen to the same few tracks for days on end, than they are to watch the same movie for days on end. Music studios may not be too jealous about access because they want to let people listen to their essentially free library in as many places as possible. Movie studios are tens of millions in the red for their big productions and don’t want to share incomes too widely.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Same. I stopped pirating music and games because Deezer and Steam are so convenient, but as long as there isn’t a way to watch most movies and shows on a single service, I won’t stop pirating. The music industry figured it out and all music streaming services have more or less the same catalog; why can’t movie studios do the same?
jantin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe because producing music costs pennies compared to producing movies and then people are much likely to listen to the same few tracks for days on end, than they are to watch the same movie for days on end. Music studios may not be too jealous about access because they want to let people listen to their essentially free library in as many places as possible. Movie studios are tens of millions in the red for their big productions and don’t want to share incomes too widely.