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Pirate Sites, Billions of Visits, Wiped Out in Hours: Sifting the Fmovies Wreckage.
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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Take away the pirates and they'll have to pay!
Or people will just not watch movies... Which is far far worse than the pirates as there will be no drive to watch new movies. Having viewers, even if they don't pay immediately doesn't mean those people won't eventually become paying viewers. A non-viewer will never pay.
I should also probably mention the last movie at a theater I went to see was 'the boy and the heron', and that was the last piece of movie media I've watched.
@Coskii @True "home taping is killing music". They've been on the same short sighted, cutting their nose off to spite their face, thing for decades.
Every study shows that piracy increases demand for "legitimate" consumption too, but they will literally drive themselves into bankruptcy rather than have one single pirated copy in existence. Muppets.
@goatsarah @Coskii @True is there a particular case about the muppets I am unaware of?
@fu @Coskii @True If there is, then I am also unaware of it.
Dude, it's not even just people who pirate might go and watch something. They're more likely to buy merch which they make more money off of. I've bought plenty of merch for stuff I pirate.
I get that dude! That's why I left it very ambiguous on what the viewer might be paying for, simply that they would be more likely to spent after having seen the thing than not!
Yeah I mean, that will be really pulling the veil away from people's eyes right?
So say that piracy is exterminated in a theoretical scenario, subscription prices now cost $20 - $25 per service just for standard. Tickets cost $19 per person. Rentals will cost $7. Copies still sold in retail stores and online hover $20 ~ $30.
Now, piracy is gone, we have all of these increased expenses. Who do they honestly expect are going to still want to be paying that much?
People will see all along that this is just simply an optional luxury to have, they can't have it, they stop paying and take their money somewhere else.
And does anyone think the executives and MAFIAA will finally admit that they've been in the wrong all this time?
No, they'll just suck eachother's dicks while proclaiming that piracy still needed to go away.
Enforcement is social control and protection of property.
@witheyeandclaw @Coskii