• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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    1 year ago

    Generally it’s agreed the best way to stop piracy is by offering a more convenient alternative. I generally for example don’t pirate video games available on Steam. With streaming services being so disjoint and expensive now I’ve gone back to pirating, at least with cable you can bundle channels.

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      11 months ago

      Yep, and when netflix took off piracy took a dive because of how good it was. Then every studio decided they wanted their piece of the streaming pie so pulled all their content off netflix and released their own streaming service, so now we’re basically back to having to pay $100 a month to get access to everything, just like we were with cable before netflix changed the game. Shockingly, piracy has shot up again.

      These companies are so stupid and greedy.

      The only games I’ll pirate are ones that are no longer available to buy, because what else am I supposed to do?