• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Over the past two decades, online piracy has proven to be a massive challenge for the entertainment industries.

    Really?

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      4 months ago

      No, not really. Sales go up every year in legitimate sources. Piracy isn’t for the normies, they get to pay.

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    4 months ago

    Netflix didn’t have this problem when only Netflix existed. Then they started removing content from their platform and pissed everyone off so people started pirating because they wanted their content back.

    Then a bunch of other streaming services started and Netflix didn’t really do anything to make their product more attractive, so those streaming providers ended up getting more content. Then Netflix cut back on their own unique content, which was their main drive in the first place (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, And yes I know it was terrible, but Discovery). So now I have to have 35 different subscriptions if I want to be 100% legit.

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    Next time an artist makes a big deal about being ripped off I’m going to contrast “working hard and then getting ripped off” with “underregulated industry manipulating society for profit” and probably just pirate.

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      They won’t, it’s just they’re so used to getting their own way with the government in the US that they think that this will cause the EU to do anything.

      Privacy is already illegal, technically, it’s just no one really enforces it, mostly because the law is so vague it’s hard to work out if anyone has actually broken it. They’re not going to start enforcing it just because Hollywood wants them to.