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[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You may think they would want to use all that money to make people not need to pirate things. but here we are.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are two ways to reduce piracy. Either make it easier to access content legally or make it harder to pirate. The former is significantly more effective than the latter. Taking down pirate streaming sites is a game of whack-a-mole and peer to peer won't go anywhere.

[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

That’s exactly it! The sad thing is that it’s more convenient to pirate than get 5+ subscriptions and an extra app on your phone to stay ahead of disappearing content.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Mixnets for the win!

[–] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Greed it's greed..

[–] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago

Russia and China are definitely the west media pirate heaven.

Good luck finding the pirates there.

LMAO

[–] beaxingu@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

its almost like some companies need piracy too exist so that they can keep leeching money of these idiots that keep giving them money to stop a problem that they themselfs create.