How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

  • AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I know it gets quoted a lot, but Gabe was 100% right. It boggles my mind how people in power over these streaming services just don’t get it:

    One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

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      10 months ago

      It boggles my mind how people in power over these streaming services just don’t get it:

      Oh they get it, you can be sure of that. It’s just they’re so, so greedy they don’t care that eventually in the future the well will dry up, they only care about more money NOW.

  • fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    9 months ago

    Sometimes I wonder whether these ‘piracy back on the menu’ write-ups are entertainment industry plants whose purpose is to manipulate congress critters.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Weird how an open source media streaming app works fine, but Disney can’t keep their app working on Android to save their lives.

    I assume bullshit DRM has something to do with it, but I wouldn’t know because there’s way easier (and even legal!) ways to get media onto my server than that.

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      10 months ago

      Please share. I dont understand where people get media especially legal nowadays. I would go to pirate bay if I need something.

  • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Forget streaming, physical media is ripe for hoarding right now. Thrift stores, antique malls, junk stores, etc can’t give this stuff away. Even 4k blurays on amazon are deeply discounted right now.