The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.
It’s like no longer having one cheap and convinient way of seeing content makes people rather pirate things than paying 7 different platforms each one more expensive than the next and all of them trying to mess with you and your wallet in new and unexpected ways.
I’m literally paying money to pirate content. $20 a year and I can stream anything from Netflix, apple, Disney, HBO, etc through a single app. So much less hassle.
Oh? What are you paying for?
HD, free version tops out at 720
I think they were wondering what service you use
Ah, yes that would make sense lol
Don’t like to mention it in comments in case it gets too much attention and shut down. I can pm people if interested.
I would like that PM if possible. Just got 3 emails in the last 2 weeks about various services raising their pricing
I’m interested! Can you PM me? I currently use an IPTV service that’s just okay.
Me ten
I would very much like a PM :)
I would be very happy about a PM too :-)
I would be interested
Cable sucked for other reasons and I sure wouldn’t have ever really called it cheap. There’s a reason people wanted to get away from it in the first place. I’ve been seeing a lot of pro cable nonsense going around and it would be such a pity if the streaming situation devolved back to putting up with the predatory nature of cable-like services.
I think OP is referring to the original streaming status quo, where Netflix was the only game in town, it cost under 15 bucks a month, and everybody licensed their back catalog to them rather than developing their own competing platforms.
It was illegal for companies to fully vertically integrate by owning production and distribution back then. A corrupt judge struck it down several years ago which put us into this mess. That’s why theaters hadn’t been owned by studios for a long time.
Also why Hulu had all that content: no one owner could run their own service explicitly.
Ahhh, the good old days
That’s exactly what the long game is. Pay for just good enough content in an ad delivery service.
You forgot the part where they try to kill off piracy, because if they charge more then more people pirate, but if they prevent people from pirating then they can charge a whole lot more.
Piracy actually keeps prices down.