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It isn't arbitrary, but it likely seems arbitrary to many pirates.
by HelloMcFly 11y ago
It isn't arbitrary, but it likely seems arbitrary to many pirates.
- bmelton 11y agoObligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/ https://xkcd.com/277/ Everything seems arbitrary when one does not know or cannot guess at the (usually more complicated) underlying reasons.
- chris_wot 11y agoThose reasons are because of negotiating local deals, or to prevent access to the content immediately to push up prices artificially. We do actually know the reasons, and it doesn't make things any better.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt is arbitrary. It's a quirk of scarcity economy. If content creators didn't need to trade off time spent on creating content for time spent on earning their bread, we wouldn't have this discussion. And while I sympathize with content creators here, we've turned this into a machine for big companies to print money. At this point, if the crude hack doesn't even serve its purpose, why should people care?