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Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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LOL.

We pay for 4K, but we don't get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and agree to their super-invasive "privacy policy" - and they expect people to NOT set sail in the high seas? GTFO..

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If that's true on its face, then you're not losing any money either way since they are never going to pay regardless even if you try to force them to.

Meanwhile, you can absolutely scare away what could have been a paying customer by offering dogshit service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s never been an assumption you can make.

If you hand me a $10 version of a thing or a $5 option of the exact same thing, I’m taking the $5. Free is no different. Especially when they can do it from the comfort of their home and not drive to a mall to buy the CD or whatever. Remember what year it was when this all started man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Remember what year it was when this all started man.

1903 when Edison v. Lubin was filed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If you’re going to be a smartass then I have no desire to continue this conversation. I am talking about when piracy became mainstream via napster because it became easy for people to get free music.