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Platforms wonder why piracy is spiking (7news.com.au)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's not even surprising anymore platforms do this & act all Pikachu face why piracy is spiking

Netflix & all these streaming platforms have completely lost touch & they will lose more customers in the long run

To quote Gabe Newell on Piracy

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable."

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The only thing that keeps me with subscriptions is the cartoons my daughter watches, because they are hard to find dubbed in my language (Portuguese). It's still more convenient to subscribe than try to find the dubbed cartoons online. For everything I watch I use my arr stack.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like your daughter is at just the right age to start learning a new language? (Half joking) pirate-jammin

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the best approach IMO but till she can watch a cartoon and understand it may be take a while..so in the mean time I'm kinda tied to streaming.

[–] prole 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I bet watching them in English with Portuguese subtitles would prob be a great way for a kid to learn English on the sly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Definitely worked for me.

[–] prole 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It seems very common among millennials and Gen Z.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's been common for decades - I firs learned of it in the 80's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The language of Arrrrrr? 😁

[–] prole 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Depending on her age of course... But you can find SRT (subtitle) files for literally almost everything, often in dozens of languages. They're super tiny too since it's basically just a txt file

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

There are still plenty of good deals in streaming if you have shifted to on-demand. If you want live TV or sports, they're out to gouge the fuck out of you. Luckily my Wife came around to on-demand only and an antenna. Of course, they're trying hard to take away the antenna option from everyone with ATSC 3.0.