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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 81 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Piracy is a service problem.

Provide a good enough service and people won't want to pirate. Anyone that still does in that scenario probably was never going to be a sale anyway.

Provide a bad service and people who would have happily paid get pushed towards piracy. The more people pirating, the better the tools get as you say.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

It's not rocket science, they already were there back when Netflix was new, they just let it get shit.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

AKA greed. Why license your content to Netflix when you can have your own streaming service and lock your viewers into your piddly little hoard of content?

Just how many streaming providers are there today? That number likely changes almost daily at this point…

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

One problem with this is that monopolies are bad.

I'm not sure what the ideal solution is. It's not "12 different services each charging $12/month" though.

I don't think regular capitalism can really solve this.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

It's not "12 different services each charging $12/month" though.

Add to that content that is geolocked behind a pay wall that isn't even made avaliable to access in my country.

"So you won't make it possible for me to pay you for your content... Ok, I'll just figure it out myself".

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

The studios should release their own tracker with a premium file and send everyone a quarterly bill who uses it. I would pay it if it were reasonable... it's only extra money for them.