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Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be fair, streaming was never buying. It was always paying entry to a library. If stuff gets removed from the library that's the way it is.
That isn't to say I don't agree. Piracy is a service problem, as Gabe Newell so eloquently put it. Streaming started losing the moment it started splintering into cable networks.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

Sony allowed you to purchase episodes and seasons of shows like Mythbusters. They specifically stated you were purchasing that content.

Then they removed that purchased content from people's account's after they went separate ways with Discovery. Sony and Discovery stole from their customers

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Yea, that's just plain stupid of them. I don't know how they expected that to go over.

Oh yes, I bought that content, but sure, take it away. I totally understand that the licensing changed.

– No one, ever

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Media companies, "We are losing money because people don't want to pay."

Or just maybe, your product sucks and people are finding alternatives to avoid dealing with you.

Currently pirating or streaming from a secondary site is faster, better quality, and easier to use. It's really not that hard to figure out.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup. You can pay Netflix for 4K, but you can only get 4K with Edge on Windows and even then only if you have the right hardware. Like, what's the point? On Linux you can only get 1080p by spoofing your just agent. Otherwise they only give you 720p.