Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

As a norwegian who is back to pirating after a break of around 10-12 years, it is not primarily a cost issue. Hell with hardware investments it is costing me more tho that includes stuff for gaming (roms, i currently dont pirate pc games).

What it is is a service issue. Self curated collection of movies and shows beats the fragmented shit that is current streaming platforms not to mention the flood of utter garbage on tgese platforms you have to sift thru to find somethinf worth watching. Not to mention the privacy aspects and in general the "ownership" model (ie licensing without really knowing the terms).

Fuck that shit and im never getting fooled again.

Music artists aren't getting paid.

Companies regularly buy up IP, then leave it unavailable.

No central ability to find things.

All licenses are temporary and have no end date.

Companies are regularly raising rates far beyond inflation.

Lowering quality for a given price, then making a higher price point to get it back.

Adding advertisements and raising rates to get rid of them.

Selling our watching habits.

Or, you can download it and not deal with any of that.

When piracy rates go up, it's because customer service and value has gone down.

As a young Norwegian I can say that I've saved a bit of money by pirating. I have a nas with 10s of tb of movies disney or Warner bros can't delete from my library.

Half of young Norwegians are wrong

Corporate Businesses treat streaming services like it's Cable all over again. Content available here, content available there, no content available anywhere for some shows and movies.

Gaming industry pushing hard to default everything to $70 as the norm, while certain editions are in triple digits and even having the gall to ask for another $30 or $40 for battle passes.

Spotify CEO and Joe Rogan both are paid far more than any music artist on the platform.

If I can't own it, why would I pay for it?

Honestly, I'm surprised it's only 50%. They don't have a cost of living crisis there?

Well, since I don't own what I buy, I don't see how pirating is anything other than getting something from a cheaper distributor.

After all, how can I steal something that can't be owned?

As a Norwegian I talked to some acquaintances about a TV-series they liked and I asked "Cool, where can I watch it?". Then we all just looked at each other and laughed.

People are being exploited and screwed over left and right. Piracy is not even a blip on the radar.

If society was built on moral rules and honest behavior, then maybe people should feel bad about pirating. But this society? Lols.

I struggle to even see the difference from slavery on most days.

Young people under 30

as opposed to old people under 30, like me! Still pirate though

Links between piracy and organized crime or malware, appear to be of less concern.

When rich have rape sex trafficked victims this one never comes up 🤡

You guys are saving money?

well, before that and for generations, banks printing money was an acceptable way of governments to make rich people richer and all others poorer, so i can fully accept that stealing was learned from govs and the richies there. change how "the successfull" accomplish their successes and you can teach the kids how to live without stealing, keep abuse by gov and richies as is and all the theft is done exactly as ordered by govs and richies, no matter the age.

That figure’s come down significantly since the age of vikings though

I have a few Norweigan friends and they say the same.

Those are rookie numbers, you've got to pump those up.