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For a lot of people who don't live in the profitable western parts of the world, paying for access is often not an option, because the company that owns the rig
by Drakim 14y ago
For a lot of people who don't live in the profitable western parts of the world, paying for access is often not an option, because the company that owns the rights doesn't bother releasing their content in such places. A lot of companies even frown upon manual importing of physical media across the world, regional-locking the content.
In the perfect world where piracy is stopped, they simply don't have access to this culture.
- coliveira 14y agoThat's my point, why technology should be used to freely export Hollywood's version of culture? There are many ways in which technology can improve people's lives, but this is not one of them. On the contrary, it is making even harder for foreign countries to create their own entertainment industry, because it is very hard to compete with free.
- benologist 14y agoI think this is a an easily believable lie. People in developing countries almost exclusively do not have a personal computer and internet connection at home or work they can use to download stuff. They have basically three options: - buy movies and console games on the street 1000x faster and cheaper than downloading and 100% reliably - pay by the hour in an internet cafe to download to their usb stick or dumb phone / mp3 player, very heavily restricted by time, price and storage capacity - offline sharing amongst friends/family TPB is just a playground for rich kids in rich countries to download everything they want in exchange for viewing a smorgasbord of advertisements and affiliate links and dodgy spyware offers.