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> The problem for rightsholders is that a subset of the population prefers not to pay for the privilege. This justification is increasingly annoying as the qua
by JonChesterfield 4y ago
> The problem for rightsholders is that a subset of the population prefers not to pay for the privilege.
This justification is increasingly annoying as the quality of service provided by Netflix and the increasing numbers of competitors races down towards worthless.
There's a lot of TV I vaguely remember and would like to rewatch and literally can't find anywhere to pay for it. Plus the less legitimate the service looks the more I wonder if I'd be paying for someone else's piracy, which seems strictly worse than downloading it myself.
So overall I hope piracy has survived the challenging years where it was easier to pay than not to. It was famously much easier to pirate game of thrones than to buy it, I wonder if that result generalises yet.
- autoexec 4y agoTorrent freak has gotten weirdly pro-media cartel from time to time in their language recently. Sometimes I wonder if that's part of the reason they disabled comments.