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Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 30 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Most pirates doesn't use the product if pirated version isn't avaliable, they aren't a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren't paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever

    It's free advertising and costs nothing to the artist

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  • [+] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.

    TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it's better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that's the day that most piracy will stop.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    people can build hype even if they aren’t paying

    Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn't be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000's

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