The joke is on them, piracy was motivated by the extreme convenience of streaming to make it as convenient as ever.
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Elektrotechnik@feddit.de 5 months ago
I honestly think they offered good deals for a couple of years to lure the new generations into a false sense of security and make them forget how to pirate :D
ours@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
- Gabe Newell
gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-n…
Still as relevant today as it was 13 years (dear god) ago. Sure, not every pirate would pay for media, just like not every pirate pays for games, but charging increasingly more money for a worse product is going to push people towards a solution that basically allows you to search for and watch anything you want, ad-free.
There’s people practically begging to spend money for certain shows and movies to be available, but they’re just not available on any streaming service. What else are they going to do?
KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 months ago
Seven seas Renaissance
Grippler@feddit.dk 5 months ago
They absolutely did. I used to pirate all my media 20 years ago, but then streaming became so convenient and relatively cheap that I just didn’t bother with it anymore.
Now, they’ve pretty much pushed me back out to sea with their ever increasing prices and decreasing content that’s worth watching. I’m not paying $10-15 per service, when they insist on fragmenting it to hell so I’d need 3-4 subscriptions to watch the things I want.