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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Umm...actually. (<--joking)

Netflix was one of the biggest reasons movie studios were freaking out about piracy. Back then people would use Netflix, a DVD rental by mail service, to rip or copy movies in bulk. Even my father (I'm 52) had a machine dedicated to copying Netflix DVDs. So it is very ironic that Netflix streaming ended up being the "solution" to a problem they had exacerbated.

The problem they have now is that it is very easy and cheap to rip streams, and bandwidth is fast and plentiful (vs early 2Ks). People rent a movie off of Prime, rip the stream, and upload it to Mega out of spite.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Piracy is a result of a service problem. I would gladly pay a reasonable fee monthly for access to any and every show I want to watch. I'm for sure am not going to pay for 12 different streaming services so I can watch severance on one, the office on another, the wire on a third when I can just download it for free.

Hell I would pay a pirate a monthly amount just to have seamless turnkey access. But the level of effort is so low these days that honestly there's no reason to pay for streaming.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 1 points 3 hours ago

I agree with the above, but I also want to be able to buy movies. I love having video-files on my storage server. I want to support the creators of the movies that I like. I wish I could go to flowthemovie.com and buy a DRM-free copy of the movie.

I don't pirate games, because I don't have to thanks to GoG. I don't pirate music because I don't have to thanks to Bandcamp. I wish movies could be that easy.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 23 hours ago

I always forget they ever made DVDs, I don't think they ever did that outside of USA.