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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (28 children)

How these companies don't realize these incompetent decisions push formerly paying customers into piracy is actually beyond me.

Do every c-level employee in these companies have brain damage?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They don't care about losing customers to piracy just like fast-food restaurants don't care about losing people to grocery stores.

They've realized it's more profitable to take further advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of customers.

If you can charge 1 customer twice the price of what you could charge 2, then you make more money because you require less overhead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I definitely agree with you but I'm not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.

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