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https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2023-crime-trends/ Theft rates are falling excluding vehicle theft
Why are you arbitrarily excluding vehicles?
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Why is pirating annoying?
More work than just opening your app. At least as long as you need just that single app. The ease of streaming disappears quickly when you need 4 different apps need to keep track of which show is where.
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I just cancelled Amazon Prime completely. Just found out you dont even need it for Amazon Video anymore, and most of the good stuff you had to pay for there anyway. For deliveries it was always barely worth it for me with prime same/one/two day free shipping being novel 10 years ago, but always hard to quantify how much I used it and the speed has gotten worse and worse, with Amazon Video being the extra thing to kee…
I don't need it for Amazon Video? Are you sure? Then what am I paying for? I certainly don't intend to ever buy anything from Amazon, they just have a handful of really good shows. I'll try cancelling it and see what happens.
Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?
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More work than just opening your app. At least as long as you need just that single app. The ease of streaming disappears quickly when you need 4 different apps need to keep track of which show is where.
I don’t follow. Why is going to Netflix more cumbersome than going to SFlix?
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Before it simply said theft is on the rise, which is simply true, even using the grandparent link, unless for some reason you don’t count cars. However I edited since whether or not it’s on the rise is actually irrelevant to my point.
Theft is on the decline including vehicle theft because vehicle theft is a small portion.
Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?
Aside from the usual "piracy is not theft" argument, which I won't get into, you seem to be missing the fact that in a significant number of cases piracy actually drives legal sales. I have seen quite a few people who pirated a game and liked it so much that when its sequel came out they bought it on day 1 at full price, or recommended it to their friends who in turn proceeded to buy it. The movie/TV/anime merchandis…
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You can be against piracy, totally understandable, but your not going to convince anyone to not pirate media with this kind of strained comparison and dismissive sarcasm. There is a pretty obvious difference between copying data (which leaves the original available) and removing a physical item from a store (which does not leave the original available). You can still consider both to be wrong, but they should be diff…
My goal is not to convince, merely my own comment i was broadcasting. Though, I’m as interested in why people pirate as I am why people steal from stores.
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Justifications or not, when I can't easily pay for something and get it, I will torrent it. The ball is in their court like ever. The tao of piracy
How easy is easily? It seems like you would either be able to buy something or not...
When you bought a DVD in the past it was incredibly easy for you to take that DVD and as long as you have a DVD player you can rewatch that movie over and over again without having to pay another dime for the privilege to do so. Now you have to contend with licenses expiring and a show you wanted to watch on Netflix (for example) is now no longer available because people at the C-level can't stop being greedy and pushing for more and more money.
Edit: Not to say the subscription model is completely wrong. It's actually a very compelling model, pay once each month for access to an entire catalogue of movies and TV shows is amazing. It's just really frustrating to watch streaming platforms hemorrhage content as the original media owners look towards higher licensing fees or even consider standing up their own streaming service, making yet another streaming service you have to pay for to access content.
Instead of not consuming, pirates use all sort of mental gymnastics to justify their consumption without paying or following the terms involved. I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?
All those fucking freeloaders using a DVR and fast-forwarding over the ads! I think they should get the death penalty for violating the terms of service./s