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How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Yup.

I basically don’t pirate music because streaming is convenient.

I generally don’t pirate games because steam and GOG is convenient. (Sometimes if I’m not sure ill enjoy it I’ll pirate as a no limit trail then buy or drop).

I generally have to with movies and shows. Even though I have access to several streaming platforms though stuff like T-Mobile, AT&T, etc. it’s too annoying to jump around a bunch of apps and the quality is bad compared to the UHD rips of stuff

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I want to buy a game it's super easy to search for it on my choice of digital store front, pay for it and download it.

If I want to watch a show I could do a search for which streaming service it's available on and hope it's one I have an account with, or for the same amount of effort I could do a search for the torrent and be able to watch it if the internet goes down.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why not just rent each movie for 48 hours from Amazon for the bargain price of "pretty much the same as a Blu-ray disc, and often higher"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This was especially frustrating with kids. All too often, with the shorter attention span of little ones, and general lack of time, where we couldn’t finish a movie that quickly. Maybe I understand that for physical media but for digital where the only scarcity is artificial?

Someone missed out on so much of my money for streaming movies when my kids were little, simply because I couldn’t guarantee finishing them in 48 hours so I didn’t rent

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