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
Why can’t it be both?
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
I’m pretty sure it can be both. If there’s AmazingService that allows streaming everything there is on torrent and then some, but it costs thousands of dollars per month, no one would be able to afford it and it won’t have any meaningful impact on piracy.
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.
Reminder:
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing!
Because it is. Who wants to pay $120 a month on streaming services you barely use?
I rather take $120 and buy shittons of physical media with it. There’s a fire sale on it everywhere right now because everyone is dumping it.
Eh? I collect some older gen videogame stuff sometimes and 120$ will not yield me “shittons”
Instead of focusing on external threats and concerns, legal streaming platforms themselves could make the most progress by changing their pricing.
Among all self-proclaimed Norwegian pirates, the most common reasons to stop were more affordable legal streaming services (41%) and the availability of a broader range of content per service (35%).
It’s almost like people don’t like paying more and more for streaming services with less and less shows on them, when the pirates will offer you everything in one much smaller subscription (if not for free).
No. If I had money to spend on media, “affordable legal streaming services” would NOT stop me from pirating. Broad availability of DRMless media purchases would.
When streaming companies continue to give ads after you paid, raise prices, remove content, remove content from your “purchase library”, force you to arbitration when your spouse dies (Disney), and spy on your network or phone, ultimately having crappy ever changing EULAs, then piracy is the way to go
Only half?
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
Edit it’s 30 but my point still stands
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.
TIL I’m half a young norwegian
so you agree with half of half of young Norwegians
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.
And have fun with regional licensing. Subtitles only in German sorry. Audio only in German sorry. This title is only available in the USA. This title is only available until midnight.
Seems a bit low lol
The other half needs a bit of education on the topic.
Fuck corporate parasites. Either provide the service or get fucked.
Why only half? Do the other half not have an opinion at all?
How about reading the article before commenting
You can never destroy the Viking spirit!
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.
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.
