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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just about every single digital service anymore that isn't involved in piracy has definitely forgotten the silver rule:

To stop piracy more effectively, you need to be more convenient than the pirates.

Is it more convenient to pay whatever the price is for the individual sports subscriptions/packages/whatever, or is it more convenient to go to a single site to stream the games you want for free?

It's why Netflix, in the early days of their streaming platform, helped curb piracy by a sizeable amount. You could watch what you wanted when you wanted all on a single application/website without worrying about potentially downloading an infected file or worrying about ads.

[–] Alfiegerner@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See also Spotify dent in pirating music.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And Steam for games. Gabe Newell himself said "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting anti-piracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."

I like to watch hockey, but I've tried using the legit streaming sites. Usually, first I can't find the damn game in their mishmash of content. Then when I find it, 80% of the time it never loads. It just sits there spinning. I can go to a pirate stream and start watching there, while the official one is still spinning. So I close the official one and watch the pirate stream.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago