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.

  • chitak166@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Gabe was actually wrong.

    His rhetoric only applies to pasty-faced white people in first-world nations.

    Everyone else still realizes the power of piracy lies in getting things for free you would otherwise be paying for.

    Fuck people who are just trying to take you for a ride.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      He was absolutely right.

      People generally are absolutely fine with paying, so long as it’s not absurd pricing and the service is convenient.

      I was happy paying for Netflix until the recent bullshit. I still pay for Spotify. I buy all my games outside of old ones that I need to emulate (again proving Gabe correct - if I could legally access them easily then I’d do that instead, but am I fuck jumping through hoops like spending thousands on old consoles I don’t have the space for nor the time to search for/import games)

      P.s. I’m from India. Not one of these “pasty-faced white people” that you seem to take issue with