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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Guess what’s also been increasing? Prices.

Guess what also has refused to go up? Wages

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Guess what also been increasing? The number of streaming platforms trying to out bid their competitors. You know what else is increasing? The number of streaming platforms going after account sharing and they wonder why people are going back to piracy. Piracy is king and no one will be able to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That’s what I’m worried about….billionaires will convince governments (who haven’t banned them yet) a “think of the children act” which will ban VPNs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

VPN is basically just a encrypted channel between 2 systems, while one of them forward traffic to the internet and unless they block/filter every encrypted connection, there is no way to block it at mass...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It can't be impossible because certain countries have been trying. Hasn't China already been fining people for using VPNs?

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