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Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

daniskarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It’s like no longer having one cheap and convinient way of seeing content makes people rather pirate things than paying 7 different platforms each one more expensive than the next and all of them trying to mess with you and your wallet in new and unexpected ways.

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m literally paying money to pirate content. $20 a year and I can stream anything from Netflix, apple, Disney, HBO, etc through a single app. So much less hassle.

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- ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh? What are you paying for?
  
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  - Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    HD, free version tops out at 720
    
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    ccdfa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think they were wondering what service you use
    
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Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cable sucked for other reasons and I sure wouldn’t have ever really called it cheap. There’s a reason people wanted to get away from it in the first place. I’ve been seeing a lot of pro cable nonsense going around and it would be such a pity if the streaming situation devolved back to putting up with the predatory nature of cable-like services.

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- Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think OP is referring to the original streaming audits quo, where Netflix was the only game in town, it cost under 15 bucks a month, and everybody licensed their back catalog to them rather than developing their own competing platforms.
  
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  - glockenspiel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It was illegal for companies to fully vertically integrate by owning production and distribution back then. A corrupt judge struck it down several years ago which put us into this mess. That’s why theaters hadn’t been owned by studios for a long time.
    
    Also why Hulu had all that content: no one owner could run their own service explicitly.
    
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  - Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ahhh, the good old days
    
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- Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s exactly what the long game is. Pay for just good enough content in an ad delivery service.
  
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  - TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You forgot the part where they try to kill off piracy, because if they charge more then more people pirate, but if they prevent people from pirating then they can charge a whole lot more.
    
    Piracy actually keeps prices down.
    
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