This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
For me it's a price and convenience if we talk about media streaming.
If we talk about games - I am playing on Linux and Alan Wake 2, which I recently pirated, is selling on Epic Games and this store has no Linux support at all. Steam has, but this game is not on Steam. If it were on Steam I'd have probably bought it.
I'm planning to make a seedbox with AirVPN running 24/7 on a Pi. I've been a big leecher for a while now and I want to give back to the community. Fuck streaming services, if I can't own the product after I bought then it's not worth buying.
When the world is either ad-supported or locked behind a paywall or, worse, both, this is what will happen.
Source form the EUIPO since it is not linked in the article: https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/online-copyright-infringement-in-eu-2023
Yeah, because it's easier and cheaper to open up the stream.io app and watch whatever I want whenever I want, than to subscribe to multitudes of platforms of which the majority of the content is garbage.
Because if there was even one large streaming service that wasn't going through shitification for profit I wouldn't turn to the high seas.
Just one. Untill then I'll pay creators directly and pirate the rest.
We paid for streaming networks but our rural internet was too shitty to stream, so I'd torrent everything instead. Now we have good internet but all the streaming services are too expensive to sign up for. Just like the old days, the only available solution to see what you want at a fair price is piracy.
Yeah increase prices due to piracy losses, I'm sure that won't cause even more people to pirate
what a trash article, that honestly sounded AI generated. depriving humans of their journalists income.
Also piracy isn't illegal in many countries. for example in Australia it's a civil offence that must be persued in the courts by the company that alleged the offence occurred.
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