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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... (www.pandasecurity.com)
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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.

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[–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh? What are you paying for?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    HD, free version tops out at 720

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think they were wondering what service you use

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's exactly what the long game is. Pay for just good enough content in an ad delivery service.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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