A new survey from Norway reveals that 50% of young people under 30 believe that pirating content is an acceptable way to save money. The survey, conducted by Ipsos, highlights that the high cost of streaming services is a key driver behind this attitude. Links between piracy and organized crime or malware, appear to be of less concern.
People are being exploited and screwed over left and right. Piracy is not even a blip on the radar.
If society was built on moral rules and honest behavior, then maybe people should feel bad about pirating. But this society? Lols.
I struggle to even see the difference from slavery on most days.
When companies treat you as a criminal even when you do try to do everything their way, it really becomes hard to care.
The way many companies act, you’d think they believe that you have to be a sucker to buy/use their own products.
Well, since I don’t own what I buy, I don’t see how pirating is anything other than getting something from a cheaper distributor.
After all, how can I steal something that can’t be owned?
You see, streaming is a service and you choosing to not use their service is… uhmm… theft!
hahaha such entitlement from them, right?
Yeah, I’m just watching/playing the content, I’m fine doing that without the license, which is the paid part anyway, right?
well, before that and for generations, banks printing money was an acceptable way of governments to make rich people richer and all others poorer, so i can fully accept that stealing was learned from govs and the richies there. change how “the successfull” accomplish their successes and you can teach the kids how to live without stealing, keep abuse by gov and richies as is and all the theft is done exactly as ordered by govs and richies, no matter the age.
That figure’s come down significantly since the age of vikings though
“Saving money by” vs “making money by”
“A penny saved is a penny earned!”
- Benji FA penny pillaged is a penny earned
Are… Ummm… Is this flirting? Can’t it instead be “A penny taken bowling and then for ice cream” instead of going straight to pillaging?
Those are rookie numbers, you’ve got to pump those up.
Links between piracy and organized crime or malware, appear to be of less concern.
When rich have rape sex trafficked victims this one never comes up 🤡
As a Norwegian I talked to some acquaintances about a TV-series they liked and I asked “Cool, where can I watch it?”. Then we all just looked at each other and laughed.
If I can’t own it, why would I pay for it?
You guys are saving money?
It saves a lot of money for each subscription service you can skip.
I only had to buy a VPN and a cheap mini PC as a server. And then a 1tb SSD. Then I needed to buy another 2tb. And then I had to run Ethernet upstairs for it since the WiFi card couldn’t keep up. Then I had to upgrade the router to support the new gigabit cabling…
Eh, well, at least I get to keep something out of it.
Young people under 30
as opposed to old people under 30, like me! Still pirate though
It’s for old people over 30, like me, so we feel old.
Honestly, I’m surprised it’s only 50%. They don’t have a cost of living crisis there?
Well, 50% of young people asked were willing to admit to their piracy lol
