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Gabe Newell rightly pointed out that piracy is a service problem. People pirate if getting access the legal way is prohibitively expensive or too much of a hass
by m12k 3y ago
Gabe Newell rightly pointed out that piracy is a service problem. People pirate if getting access the legal way is prohibitively expensive or too much of a hassle. I can easily get access to any game I care about at a reasonable price on Steam. I can listen to any music I care about at a reasonable price on Spotify.
The same could almost be said of movies and TV series on Netflix years ago, but hasn't been remotely true for a while now, ever since the splintering of streaming into warring content owner kingdoms.
Guess which types of media I haven't even considered pirating, and which media I've given up on getting legally.
- paledot 3y agoI've been in your camp on all fronts for a while, but Spotify has been getting worse and more expensive, and there are some meaningful gaps in their catalog. I got rid of my CDs a decade+ ago, but I think it's time to start buying and ripping music again. Unfortunately, Plex also wants to charge me to stream my own music, so the first step to find a new media player that isn't subject to enshittification.
- scruple 3y agoJellyfin. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
- pierat 3y agoI also use Navidrome for my music. Supports the Subsonic API too. Jellyfin and I had a bad going-through with handling. Minutes to pull up even a single discography. These days, it plays videos and that's it.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> Unfortunately, Plex also wants to charge me to stream my own music, so the first step to find a new media player that isn't subject to enshittification. Shit. I was considering switching my music library over the Plex, since they already both live on the same hard drive...
- tuetuopay 3y agoI'm on the same boat as you. I don't pirate games or music anymore, and I've not done so for years. However, for movies and TV shows it's another story. I don't watch enough of them to warrant a single subscriptions, let alone multiple to watch the few shows and movies that do interest me and never are on the same platform.