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Your assumption of the average consumer’s technical chops and desires isn’t realistic. Pirating anything is not as convenient as paying $7/mo. The majority of
by iknowSFR 4y ago
Your assumption of the average consumer’s technical chops and desires isn’t realistic. Pirating anything is not as convenient as paying $7/mo.
The majority of outcomes here are either they pay the fee and get ads, pay the higher fee and don’t get ads, or don’t pay and don’t watch. It’s not a pirate or don’t pirate discussion for most of the world.
- Beaver117 4y agoA large percentage of the world pirates. If you can't learn how or find someone to teach you, when the benefits are clear, then you deserve to pay and suffer through ads.
- joemazerino 4y agoI sincerely doubt a large percentage of the world has the technical know-how to pirate. Watching cracked streams is akin to trading endpoint security for the latest GOTR episode, too.
- aamoscodes 4y agoI mostly agree with you, with one clarification that you don’t personally need to know how piracy works to benefit from it. Piracy is very common outside of the US. In the US piracy is an individual decision, you pick your storage and tools yourself. Other places it’s trivially easy to find someone selling pirated media in local markets.
- faeriechangling 4y agoPiracy isn't just a "nerd" thing, I literally saw EVERY sibling and classmate doing it growing up because they had no money. Using these sites is not rocket science, they're designed to be usable by the average person, they just have to click through 6 ads on the way to their video.