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Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 10 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don't get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive "privacy policy" - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO..

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 215 points 10 months ago

I'm willing to pay for one, maybe two subscriptions, and ain't nobody got time to dig for which service has what show to find out season 2 is on some other service entirely.

Piracy provides a better user experience 🤷‍♂️

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 118 points 10 months ago

Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem - Gaben

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I generally agree with him, but there are a lot of people who pirate simply because they don’t want to pay. And I’m not casting moral judgment here, i just feel like it bears mentioning lol “almost always” is pretty generous

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 35 points 10 months ago

No it also means it's a service problem in the sense that it's not priced right for a geography. Pricing a game $70 where local average monthly income is $120 a month is a service problem. If you expect people from that geographic region to pay, the product should be priced within their means. And thus argument is valid only for digital goods where every new copy of the said goods costs mere few cents.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You’re gonna have to put in some work to convince me he used “service“ to also say “too expensive” when he said that. Hell GAAS as a concept didn’t even exist when he said that.