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The fragmentation and exclusivity of media/streaming companies just makes piracy more and more worth it.
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
The fragmentation and exclusivity of media/streaming companies just makes piracy more and more worth it.
- throwawaycuriou 5y agoIndeed. And I don't want to pirate. Startup idea: Tell us your friends and the services you subscribe to with family/friends sharing. We'll provide a password manager (or an API to your favorite password manager) to get rotating anonymous credentials that spread the cost evenly.
- pingpongchef 5y agoLong-term there was always going to be a marketplace process for piracy. As the pain/expense of legitimately acquiring content exceeds the pain/expense of acquiring it via other means, consumers will make choices that suit them. With Netflix we saw a sharp decline in the pain/expense for legitimacy so we saw a dip in piracy. Nothing magical about it
- y-c-o-m-b 5y agoYup, it's increasingly becoming the solution. I have memberships to a handful of streaming services and yet somehow everything I've looked up to watch over the last month is not available on any of those services. Some of them are really old too; like the movie "Con Air" for example, but the only place I could find it was Amazon and it was only available to rent/buy. Relatively speaking, this almost feels worse than the cable and video rental offerings we had two decades ago.