Slightly older (2021) article I found while searching for this place. It pretty much says what we’ve all been saying.
The streaming industry had a couple of benefits, being convenience for an acceptable price. Corporate greed pushed these streaming services to lower convenience and increase the price and they expected people to just eat it. I don’t mind paying for good products that I regularly use, but the price has to be acceptable. This doesn’t however justify piracy, but it is one possible way forward.
It stopped it for a while when we had 1-2 good streaming sites, then everyone made their own, pulled all their stuff from previous ones. I am not going to pay for 15 accounts. I still have Netflix with family, but it will end soon with password sharing.
It’ll go back down when every company and their dog stops trying to have their own $15 sub service.
So it won’t happen.
But I do miss the days of it just being Netflix Amazon and Hulu.
Maybe people would be be less inclined to pirate if the economy wasn’t so fucked up. Why would anyone spend money on entertainment when they could barely afford living expenses? (Other than the threat of lawsuits for copyright infringement)
where are you from? I’m from Italy and in 2023 people can only eat if you’ve two working family members and can barely feed children
The “richest” country in the world, even though the quality of life isn’t really that rich for the average people.
(I’m talking about the United States of America, of course.)
and here I thought people were living a nice life over there. I heard plenty of people move from IT to US. Health system sucks tho, that’s for sure
I mean, honestly, the US isn’t that bad when you compare it to the entire world, it’s only when you compare it amonst other developed countries, that you find it very low tier.
What makes anyone think we want to stop pirating?
Convenience aside, they keep censoring episodes of Tv shows. So even if you pay full price for every single streaming service you still can’t watch every episode of the office or community.
