If executives were hurting financially like everyone else, we would be more sympathetic. Pirate everything! Yes, if I could download a car, I would.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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When the world is either ad-supported or locked behind a paywall or, worse, both, this is what will happen.
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Source form the EUIPO since it is not linked in the article: https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/online-copyright-infringement-in-eu-2023
Yeah, because it's easier and cheaper to open up the stream.io app and watch whatever I want whenever I want, than to subscribe to multitudes of platforms of which the majority of the content is garbage.
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Because if there was even one large streaming service that wasn't going through shitification for profit I wouldn't turn to the high seas.
Just one. Untill then I'll pay creators directly and pirate the rest.
Yeah increase prices due to piracy losses, I'm sure that won't cause even more people to pirate
We paid for streaming networks but our rural internet was too shitty to stream, so I'd torrent everything instead. Now we have good internet but all the streaming services are too expensive to sign up for. Just like the old days, the only available solution to see what you want at a fair price is piracy.
I downloaded new content for the first time in a while, recently. It's on a streaming service that I don't want (I pay for several).
I'd only been downloading things that I couldn't stream (* Cannibal Holocaust*, for example) for a long time. I stopped downloading for a number of years. Guess what? My bittorrent client still works. After a number of years buying everything on blu-ray discs (and ripping to Plex) and renting from streaming services, I'm on my way to where I was. I'll still pay for convenience. I'm done fucking around with complications.
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6$ month newsgroups access, 2$ index access a month, 200$ used tiny pc, jellybin, radarr, sonnarr, subnzbd, prowlar, Jellyseer. 4k on demand stream anything to multiple clients.
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what a trash article, that honestly sounded AI generated. depriving humans of their journalists income.
Also piracy isn't illegal in many countries. for example in Australia it's a civil offence that must be persued in the courts by the company that alleged the offence occurred.