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Good, I welcome this! Zoomers need to learn how to pirate content, they haven't yet as a cohort. All the rise in widescale piracy 10-20 years ago started becau
by joecool1029 5y ago
Good, I welcome this!
Zoomers need to learn how to pirate content, they haven't yet as a cohort. All the rise in widescale piracy 10-20 years ago started because media distribution sucked ass. Once the streaming services started and were easy to use, everyone stopped pirating. Netflix didn't just kill Blockbuster, it stopped ThePirateBay from being a household name.
Since hell will freeze over before sensible copyright terms come about, piracy is our only hope to get rare/weird/controversial and out-of-print media. We need educated and more importantly, motivated, pirates to build up the communities again.
- MisterSandman 5y agoLuckily piracy has been kept alive by a lot of Third World Countries. Ask any Indian college student; they might not have graduated, but they sure as fuck know how to pirate the newest Marvel movie. Interestingly, this is also changing - streaming services are offering plans at dirt cheap prices because they're essentially trying to compete with piracy. That's slowly caused a decrease in piracy, and prices have slowly started to go back up in India too.
- post_break 5y agoI’ve seen people use vpns to sign up for Netflix and other utilities to pay those rock bottom prices.