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When consumers are dissuaded from purchasing content, when a purchase is not a purchase, arguments against piracy are almost insulting.
> For years, consumers griped about cable bundling and having to pay high prices for hundreds of channels they never watched in order to get the handful they enjoyed. Despite the growing availability of legal streaming options since then, piracy statistics show that infringement has remained a real concern. That's the thing isn't it? It was convenient when streaming first came on the scene. Everything in one place. "…
It seems purposely obtuse to me, to nickel and dime. And even if I do pay extra to 'buy' a movie, the Sony debacle has shown that I can't assume I can watch stuff that I have bought indefinitely.
It ABSOLUTELY is ethically justifiable. https://xkcd.com/488/
And these companies aren't happy will selling us media one time. They demand that we buy it in VHS... Then DVD... Then HDDVD, oh nope BLURay. Then 'streaming'. And our rights go down and down each iteration.
I also have stacks of movies in various formats. Again, even format shifting something like a Macrovision'ed VHS or ripping a DVD is a crime. So buying legit and format shifting is a crime? Cool, I'll just download and be a pirate.
It's laughable that they even try to play the 'ethics' card. Like, how else would Weird Al get his $12 sandwich for the millions of plays? https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yanko...
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient. Intellectual property isn't ethically justifiable, but it is convenient for some. > Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth. In many (most?) jurisdictions downloading material is not illegal. Have these been subtracted from this figure, or is this yet another lie? Given the history of this propaganda, I'm qu…
This seems shockingly high. I wonder how different this is geographically. I would think streaming via Netflix and others, YouTube, Twitch, etc would have shrunk illegal streaming to a much smaller percentage of the total.
I don't know. I used to pirate heavily and always said once I could afford to buy stuff I would buy stuff. Then I could afford to buy stuff so I bought stuff, I used Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, etc. Then I started to lose things I bought. Until they make digital purchases an actual purchase then I choose to boycott them and pirate instead. Boycotting them and not enjoying things because of this would be cutting my face off to spite my face and hurt me more than the company with the unethical business model. But if I pirate it, it only hurts them.
Amazon Prime in Germany has S2-4 as stream, sells S1-4. But everything only in German, and no subs.
Apple sells something? Maybe only S1? I don’t understand how I can see it without an iTunes account or maybe iTunes installed? Good job having a worse UX than either Google or Amazon, though, that takes work.
Google has only S1, and again only in German.
Sure is convenient to be able to get what I want at all, because apparently no one else sells or rents it. Sure, I could buy the DVDs (probably for a fraction of the price of buying it at Amazon), go through the hassle of ripping everything, fix the subtitles etc. like I did for ReGenesis, but that’s hours of work, so yeah, you bet I go with the convenient version, and I find it perfectly ethically justifiable.
In other words, if not for the piracy, a significant part of the workforce would be music producers by now.
Napster saved us all from a weirdly dystopian future.
> For years, consumers griped about cable bundling and having to pay high prices for hundreds of channels they never watched in order to get the handful they enjoyed. Despite the growing availability of legal streaming options since then, piracy statistics show that infringement has remained a real concern. That's the thing isn't it? It was convenient when streaming first came on the scene. Everything in one place. "…
I own a full cable package with rights to ESPN, but didn't have the app downloaded on my phone. I tried to catch the end of a game in the web browser, and ESPN.com refused to allow access via web. Guess what was faster to search for?
But the streaming platforms (netflix, disney...) are separate islands.
I think that the all content (films, tv series...) should in all platforms and if the user want to see a "disney film" in his netflix app, the netflix company do the economic balance/account with disney.
And the streaming platform war will be for good content for to avoid your user want to see other content from other platforms...because you as streaming company must paid to this content from other platform.
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient. Intellectual property isn't ethically justifiable, but it is convenient for some. > Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth. In many (most?) jurisdictions downloading material is not illegal. Have these been subtracted from this figure, or is this yet another lie? Given the history of this propaganda, I'm qu…
Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.