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“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technol

“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.” -Gabe Newell

pluijzer 3y ago
I can relate to this. I get my music from Bandcamp, it is easy to get non DRM'ed files. Same for games which I buy on GoG, comes also with easy to download non DRM'ed files. I never illegally download games and music because of this. When it comes to series though; They are either not available anywhere legally, not in my region, only available with some streaming service subscription were the rest of the catalog doesn't interest me. Disappear from the catalog etc. etc. etc. I might've downloaded series because of it. Give me a service were I can legally download .mkv files and I certainly will pay for it. Right now illegally downloading it is just far superior.
- ilyt 3y ago
  Same. Give me a fucking file, I don't care for your shitty app, and I want to watch it when I want on what I want.
Y-bar 3y ago
This is very similar to the sentiment of Steve Jobs' open letter "Thoughts on Music" where he called upon record companies to allow him to abolish DRM in the iTunes music store.
orwin 3y ago
True. I pay for steam, I pay for music I listen to, I pay for films (theater), and I download TV shows. I only watch 2-3 a year, and I can't justify paying 100€/month for at most 3 TV shows.
yread 3y ago
On the other hand Steam is probably the most common antipiracy technology around.
ryandrake 3y ago
Content creators and studios really need to get this quote through their heads. While price may be a factor, people also choose piracy because it actually provides the product they want, rather than the product that the corporations want to sell. If there was a movie service that offered simply a paid download where I could browse a list of all movies ever made, buy a single file (let's say MKV) that contained the movie, my choice of audio stream(s), my choice of subs, that could be downloaded once and played any number of times, in any region, on any hardware, running any software, then you have my business! Figure that out, and then we can talk about price. Bandcamp mostly figured this out for music (except for the "all music ever made" part). How is it so hard for movies? Also really tired of hearing the vague "licensing" excuses, too. "Oh, we can't do that because licenses!" This is an industry self-inflicted wound--one that they could fix if they really thought it was important.

pluijzer 3y ago

I can relate to this. I get my music from Bandcamp, it is easy to get non DRM'ed files. Same for games which I buy on GoG, comes also with easy to download non DRM'ed files. I never illegally download games and music because of this. When it comes to series though; They are either not available anywhere legally, not in my region, only available with some streaming service subscription were the rest of the catalog doesn't interest me. Disappear from the catalog etc. etc. etc. I might've downloaded series because of it. Give me a service were I can legally download .mkv files and I certainly will pay for it. Right now illegally downloading it is just far superior.

ilyt 3y ago
Same. Give me a fucking file, I don't care for your shitty app, and I want to watch it when I want on what I want.

Y-bar 3y ago

This is very similar to the sentiment of Steve Jobs' open letter "Thoughts on Music" where he called upon record companies to allow him to abolish DRM in the iTunes music store.

orwin 3y ago

True. I pay for steam, I pay for music I listen to, I pay for films (theater), and I download TV shows. I only watch 2-3 a year, and I can't justify paying 100€/month for at most 3 TV shows.

yread 3y ago

On the other hand Steam is probably the most common antipiracy technology around.

ryandrake 3y ago

Content creators and studios really need to get this quote through their heads. While price may be a factor, people also choose piracy because it actually provides the product they want, rather than the product that the corporations want to sell. If there was a movie service that offered simply a paid download where I could browse a list of all movies ever made, buy a single file (let's say MKV) that contained the movie, my choice of audio stream(s), my choice of subs, that could be downloaded once and played any number of times, in any region, on any hardware, running any software, then you have my business! Figure that out, and then we can talk about price. Bandcamp mostly figured this out for music (except for the "all music ever made" part). How is it so hard for movies? Also really tired of hearing the vague "licensing" excuses, too. "Oh, we can't do that because licenses!" This is an industry self-inflicted wound--one that they could fix if they really thought it was important.