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another thing likely driving piracy is the unprecedented economic pressure felt world wide at the moment.
Personally it's the unmitigated loads of unwanted ideology jammed down my throat by each platform...I'm just over it. Piracy is so much more reliable.
There are many other reasons people pirate, it's not all about convenience and cost. Personally I would never pay a cent to Disney again, because I do not like them and do not want to support their business. A lot of people would not pirate anything if they could pay the creators directly, without the questionable middlemen. The good news is that many of the problems can be solved with a single solution. Bring back p…
> Sure enough, The Software Alliance—a Washington, D.C. anti-piracy organization—claimed digital piracy declined by 37 percent in 2017. Since The Software Aliance only estimates piracy of PC software, this seems like a weird source to quote in an article about media piracy. I also wonder, now that people get scary notices from their ISP whenever they torrent anything, if more people are turning to less-easy-to-track…
I bring this up fairly often but I do not understand why people’s default privacy mental image is torrenting and not the perfectly convenient Netflix clones like Sflix that require no software
Sharing streaming service passwords. 16-part Family Guy episodes on TikTok, and ridiculous ad-ridden streaming websites ending in odd TLDs are all the rage. The latest generation of young adults grew up on Chromebooks.
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another thing likely driving piracy is the unprecedented economic pressure felt world wide at the moment.
Personally it's the unmitigated loads of unwanted ideology jammed down my throat by each platform...I'm just over it. Piracy is so much more reliable.
And if you're pirating content you do want you're just informing studios there's no money to be made with it so they certainly won't make more of it.
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Personally it's the unmitigated loads of unwanted ideology jammed down my throat by each platform...I'm just over it. Piracy is so much more reliable.
Agreed. It just feels icky giving money to a company like Disney.
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I bring this up fairly often but I do not understand why people’s default privacy mental image is torrenting and not the perfectly convenient Netflix clones like Sflix that require no software
I doubt that very many people here even knows how civilians pirate things. These threads are always full of people describing how they have a 80PB ZFS array on OVH with a Plex server, unlimited Usenet block account, and 50 private trackers, acting like they’re describing anything relevant to anyone besides the ultra-nerdy. Sharing streaming service passwords. 16-part Family Guy episodes on TikTok, and ridiculous ad-r…
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Personally it's the unmitigated loads of unwanted ideology jammed down my throat by each platform...I'm just over it. Piracy is so much more reliable.
Why do you pirate content you don't want? And if you're pirating content you do want you're just informing studios there's no money to be made with it so they certainly won't make more of it.
Like the NPR member station that wrongfully fired the disabled Muslim last year. One of his jokes, "Kind of Racist":
“I work at one of these places that’s so woke it’s kinda racist,” the joke reads in part. “Like this lady asked my boss, she’s like ‘Yo, does Jad consider himself a person of color?’ because she was making a list of us. Fucking hell? Sick, alright. I get to be in this lady’s brown dude Pokédex.”
This joke was called “a powerful condemnation, in a funny way, of what [Sleiman] calls corporatized racial consciousness that makes him, a person of color, feel uncomfortable because he would prefer to be categorized as a whole person regardless of the color of his skin.”
He makes another point about not being given the choice of being "white" after 9/11. And now, there's this weird mixed dance somewhere between "we can't depict Koreans as fruit sellers in school books" and "who do we need to enforce labeling on right now to make marketing more valuable over the next 30 years?". NPR seems to want to maintain a moral high ground, and they think this is what sets them apart from their perceived ideological opposition - manufacturing both the demographic and their brand loyalty.
Inclusive by name, exclusive by practice.
There are many other reasons people pirate, it's not all about convenience and cost. Personally I would never pay a cent to Disney again, because I do not like them and do not want to support their business. A lot of people would not pirate anything if they could pay the creators directly, without the questionable middlemen. The good news is that many of the problems can be solved with a single solution. Bring back p…
lol. I scrolled to find “smart contact” and found it. This is completely unrealistic, utopian thinking. I’ll risk the egg on my face when indie Iron Man 4 comes out.
Some consumers do want Disney, Universal & co to feed them the 40th iteration of some lame meme, granted. I'm not saying there won't be a market for Fast and Furious 27. But dismissing everything that isn't a big budget Hollywood production is a bit much. We will see what the future brings but many people expect us to move towards more individual solutions, that's been the trend for decades.
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There are many other reasons people pirate, it's not all about convenience and cost. Personally I would never pay a cent to Disney again, because I do not like them and do not want to support their business. A lot of people would not pirate anything if they could pay the creators directly, without the questionable middlemen. The good news is that many of the problems can be solved with a single solution. Bring back p…
so i see no way to completely eliminate the middlemen, because they will want to recoup their investment.
we could argue that everyone should get a share of the profits, but with that argument comes the downside of everyone also needing to take a cut when a film makes a loss.
i am not sure if i wouldn't prefer just get paid a fair salary for the work and let someone else take that risk.