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

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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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[–] Makeshift 1 points 6 months ago

Also from US, and one key word in your comment has got to be the major reason I didn’t understand people liking it.

iPod.

I had a Sony Walkman MP3 player, not an iPod.

So for me, it took just one song bought and a whole lot of hassle trying to figure out how to get it on my MP3 player to decide iTunes sucks, rip the song off YouTube, run it through an MP3 converter, and have what I wanted… then wonder why other people thought bashing their monitors trying to get a song on their MP3 player from that stupid impossible convoluted “service” was easier.

I’ll call myself lucky in hindsight for having the “wrong” device!