• BillDoor@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I hear there are some nice communities dedicated to piracy somewhere on the fediverse.

    I think a lot of people stopped pirating because of Netflix, when they first started and they had a lot of good content and reasonable prices.

    Now that it’s just full of bland Netflix Originals and they’re trying to squeeze every last penny from people already battling a cost of living crisis, it might be time to dust off the old jolly roger again.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPM
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      1 year ago

      I think a lot of people stopped pirating because of Netflix, when they first started and they had a lot of good content and reasonable prices.

      It’s a classic move - start a convenient free or cheap product to kill the competition and then jack up the monetisation.

      I remember the enormous amount of Torrenting there was of Lost and the like, so they’d be eager to sign up to streaming services too. I think the problem now is that it’s even easier to illegally stream films and TV, so they aren’t even doing that well on the convenience front.