this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
906 points (98.4% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
53948 readers
454 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
💰 Please help cover server costs.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Have you tried
Not Enshittifying
?
Tbf, a lot of the problem is from content producers making their own platforms
I'm not sure I buy it. Just because content producers wall+jerk themselves off doesn't mean you have to enshittify your own product, not when you are winning. Besides, Netflix already became a content producer themself partly as an answer to that.
Since Netflix is a publicly traded company now, they pretty much have to.
Gotta pursue that infinite stock growth....
This is it. The stock market is pretty much the reason everything goes to shit. It's run in rampantly criminal fashion in the first place, just a meat grinder for money, and if our legal system weren't run in such a fast and loose, revolving-door echo chamber fashion, someone would have clamped down on it years ago. Why this isn't more obvious to people is stunning to me.
It's like religion. It corrupts you, makes you angry, sanctimonious and blind, and hence stupid. Avoid it like the plague it is.
Maybe it's not even the stock market, but the laws surrounding it. To the best of my knowledge, a company's primary legal obligation is to maximize shareholder value. Ethics and maintenance seem to be secondary as a result. There needs to be legal ways or more incentives for companies to be satisfied with their progress and seek stability/maintenance, and keep their stock price stable.
Fair point, capitalism ruins everything by definition.