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
But but but rational actors supply and demand something something invisible hand of the market.
Orthodox economics can’t be wrong. That’s why you have an orthodoxy, to make sure everybody knows it’s right! That’s how science works!
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.
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
Yup, Stremio + realdebrid + VPN is utterly unmatched for service, plus you get fast torrents for everything else.
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.
This isn’t even like a personal opinion or a thought experiment. Pirating was huge, then Netflix popularized streaming and pirating went WAY down, and then the streaming experience went to shit and pirating went back up.
Reminder:
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing!
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
Why only half? Do the other half not have an opinion at all?
How about reading the article before commenting
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.
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.
