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I think you’re presenting a false dichotomy here. Piracy has always been there and studios still make a lot of money. People are still willing to pay for thing
by virtual_void 4y ago
I think you’re presenting a false dichotomy here. Piracy has always been there and studios still make a lot of money.
People are still willing to pay for things, they just want a copy of the thing that they paid for so that it cannot be stolen from them later. The only answer here IS piracy.
- CabSauce 4y agoWanting your purchase to persist is totally reasonable. Not buying a digital copy where it can disappear is the solution.
- avianlyric 4y agoIt would be if Blu-ray disks and DVDs weren’t covered in copy protection making it close to impossible to backup your physical purchases, or guarantee your long term ability to watch them. How many people here still have a functioning VCR? Hell, how many still have a functioning DVD player?
- virtual_void 4y agoDvd and Blu-ray are deeply upsetting things. Used to be that there were unskippable adverts and all sorts of junk I don’t expect if I paid for it. Continually adding on user hostile additional revenue streams, like adverts, on top of something i already paid for is one of the major drivers of piracy.
- josephcsible 4y ago> Not buying a digital copy where it can disappear is the solution. There's not always another choice.
- virtual_void 4y agoAnother false dichotomy! How about i pay for things I’m buying but take a pirate copy as a backup? It’s already clear that if you make digital content available at a reasonable price people will pay for it. The thing we’re arguing about is who is stealing from whom. Here’s a genuine dichotomy. Assuming I’m interested in the media, then I’m either buying or I’m renting. If I’m renting call it renting. If I’m buying don’t steal it from me later by hiding the fact that it’s a rental in thousands of lines of legalese.