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Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 1 year ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don't get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive "privacy policy" - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO..

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

The companies have almost successfully re-introduced the very problem that streaming originally solved.

It's like this dipshits don't want our money. I've always been firm that any content removed from streaming services is a message from that content company that they don't want the money of the customers subscribed to said service and thus are okay with those people pirating it instead.

If they cared about the money, they'd had left the content there.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

But realistically even if pump and dump schemes like this make the customers hate them, it might still make more as a total sum - and if so as a cooperation they'd almost have to take the shitty route (or be surpassed by someone who will).

Yay capitalism

[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yay capitalism

Lol, you think greed won't exist under socialism? Greed is why communism fails every time. People are inherently greedy in a world where scarcity exists.

[-] jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why yes, greed is exactly why Cuba deserves to be embargoed for all eternity, look how flawed communism is lol haha /s

[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/why-situation-cuba-deteriorating

[-] jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago

All I see here is pointing fingers at Cuba and Venezuela failing in places that they were sabotaged by the US, big surprise.

[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What use is communism when it's so easily foiled by capitalism? Seems like a major flaw.

[-] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Luckily, we don't live in a world where scarcity exists, just one with a resource distribution problem.

[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

we don’t live in a world where scarcity exists

Wrong, there's a distinct scarcity of logic in your arguments.

"Scarcity is so fundamental to economics that scarce goods are also known as economic goods. In economics, scarce goods are those for which demand would exceed supply at a price of zero." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/scarcity.asp

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Uh no? I don't think I really implied it wouldn't either, nor even that I'm a socialist tbh

something something manufactured scarcity changes things

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many more democratically elected Latin American governments do we have to replace with fascist military dictatorships before you finally understand that socialism simply doesn't work?