This is the same reason why Netflix was good to start. It answered the service problem. Now with the fracturing, licensing, pricing, blah, blah that’s no longer the case
Yup. With the ease and low likelihood of being caught, piracy has become a pressure relief valve on shitty content practices. Make things too hard to get and people will recognize that setting up a VPN and torrent client aren’t all that hard. Make the experience really bad, and you’ll get dedicated people creating entire software platforms to lower that barrier to entry for piracy even further. Sure, some of those software platforms will get knocked down, but they usually result in the code being released and other folks come along and build on them.
As consolidation and enshitification rise, I expect us to see piracy rise again as well.
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This is the same reason why Netflix was good to start. It answered the service problem. Now with the fracturing, licensing, pricing, blah, blah that’s no longer the case
Yup. With the ease and low likelihood of being caught, piracy has become a pressure relief valve on shitty content practices. Make things too hard to get and people will recognize that setting up a VPN and torrent client aren’t all that hard. Make the experience really bad, and you’ll get dedicated people creating entire software platforms to lower that barrier to entry for piracy even further. Sure, some of those software platforms will get knocked down, but they usually result in the code being released and other folks come along and build on them.
As consolidation and enshitification rise, I expect us to see piracy rise again as well.