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0 pointsnlawalker7mo ago0 comments

> "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

Maybe so, but if media companies invested in fixing the service problems, the pricing problems would remain, and those keep people away just as effectively, so they're not going to do it.

People don't want to pay what the media companies want to charge, at any level of service.

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the_af7mo ago

This is absolutely not true.

I pay an ungodly combined amount of money to various streaming services, but must still occasionally resort to TPB. Which "just works", unlike said streaming services.

Within reason, it's not a money problem (within reason; media conglomerates would love for me to sell my kidney in order to watch their premium shows, but that's not going to happen).I would rather just pay for the problem to go away, but Netflix, Disney et al just disagree.

area51org7mo ago

Not necessarily true, as the success of streaming shows. The problem comes when the unbounded greed of the billionaires in charge leads them to inflate prices beyond their customers' ability and willingness to pay.

frollogaston7mo ago

Streaming was cheaper than what existed before, and still is. Inflation-adjusted, movies and TV were insanely expensive back then, yet people willingly paid. And the movies were better. Who's greedy, companies wanting to offer nonessential entertainment for a price, or people who want it for free?

simianparrot7mo ago

Nobody I ever talk to cancel Netflix because it’s too expensive. They cancel it because it runs out of content they care about. Including me. I’m not keeping a sub for that one week a year I find something I enjoy.

It’s absolutely a service problem.

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the_af7mo ago

Most people do not want it for free. It's just that they are fed up with streaming platforms fragmentation and anticonsumer practices.

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0 pointsnlawalker7mo ago0 comments

> "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

Maybe so, but if media companies invested in fixing the service problems, the pricing problems would remain, and those keep people away just as effectively, so they're not going to do it.

People don't want to pay what the media companies want to charge, at any level of service.

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the_af7mo ago

This is absolutely not true.

I pay an ungodly combined amount of money to various streaming services, but must still occasionally resort to TPB. Which "just works", unlike said streaming services.

area51org7mo ago

frollogaston7mo ago

simianparrot7mo ago

It’s absolutely a service problem.

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the_af7mo ago

Most people do not want it for free. It's just that they are fed up with streaming platforms fragmentation and anticonsumer practices.

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