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• trespasser69@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminder

  If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing!

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• negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oldie but goodie:

  We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, - Gabe Newell

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He gets it. No wonder why I pay for every game I play, but I refuse to sign up to streaming services again.

    If I can get better quality in almost every aspect for free, your service is really crappy.

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  • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why can’t it be both?

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    • HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to pay a lot of money for a streaming service that guaranteed a good amount of shows I’d want to watch without ever taking any shows or features away

      Sadly, no streaming service does this basic feature. It’s all enshitification and fragmentation of good shows across multiple services

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it is. Who wants to pay $120 a month on streaming services you barely use?

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  • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I rather take $120 and buy shittons of physical media with it. There’s a fire sale on it everywhere right now because everyone is dumping it.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Eh? I collect some older gen videogame stuff sometimes and 120$ will not yield me “shittons”

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why only half? Do the other half not have an opinion at all?

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• sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When streaming companies continue to give ads after you paid, raise prices, remove content, and remove content from your “purchase library”, and force you to arbitration when your spouse dies (Disney), spy on your network or phone, ultimately having crappy ever changing EULAs, then piracy is the way to go

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• Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If there was a paid service that let me stream shit with the same variety and ease as torrentio then I would pay for it in a heartbeat. But to get almost the same variety I would need to buy every streaming service and even if I did that it would be a pain in the ass to manage every streaming service. The media corps did this to themselves.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And you would still need to pay extra to watch the newest or older titles even if you subscribed to every service, and there are plenty of movies that just aren’t available regardless of which service you subscribe to.

    It’s all enshittified.

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• JohnyRocket@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  What’s that about organized crime? I have never heard of that before. Is it only a scare tactic or is it really something to be concerned about when sailing the 7 seas, other than the usual caution (uBlock, VPN, private browser tab)

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• GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can never destroy the Viking spirit!

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    heh. fr tho, I think this is more about the political climate in Norway than any sort of national identity. I doubt anyone in the states would openly admit to piracy, even if it was an anonymous survey. I think there’s a psych term for that, but I forget it; has to do with fear of retribution when answering questions honestly.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a biological term for it: self-preservation.

      Seriously though, media copyrights holders and associations like RIAA and MPAA can go fuck themselves. They spit in the face of public domain and their idea of “restitution” would probably include lethal injection if were an option.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The world has left everything on the shelf in full public view and access for anyone to take. Everything is based on a system of trust where we willingly pay for things and take what’s on the shelf, knowing full well that we could just take the thing off the shelf and walk away without paying. We all trust one another to be fair and do the right thing … and for the most part, the majority of everyone agrees with that.

  Unfortunately, some asshats decided that it was a good idea to make everything expensive or to nickel and dime everyone to death … most people especially young people just get so pissed off because they can afford fewer and fewer things that they decide that the system of trust is no longer working or worth it.

  So they just take the things off the shelf and tell the asshats to go fuck themselves.

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “afford fewer and fewer things” needs correction: most “things” are being turned into “services” so people end up owning nothing and being forced to overpay for “service” they never asked for

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• ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL I’m half a young norwegian

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so you agree with half of half of young Norwegians

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    • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Halfly, yes.

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  • proti@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    why not double half young Norwegian?

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• KaTaRaNaGa@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only half?

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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah assuming young means below 16, you can’t expect babies to know how to do online piracy, give them until they at least 10 or so

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah my guess is the other half didn’t have an opinion on the matter

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• thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why I love the Internet

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