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Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men (phys.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We only started pirating after Amazon refused to let us play movies we paid for because our hardware was too old for their DRM. It was a 2014 PC made of recycled parts. At the time, it was less than 10 years old. We pirated the same movie and realized it was easier to find, higher quality, and surprise, surprise, capable of playing on a PC we kept out of the landfill.

When I see anti piracy measures that punish people that don't pirate, such as massive performance hits or privacy violating features, it makes me want to pirate more.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

720 streams run from strange websites in timbucktoo have higher fidelity than the 4K stream I paid good money for.

Here's a great price and you can share it with your friends. Wait not those friends. Wait your phone isn't authorized anymore. Okay you authorized your phone but you need to authorize it again. Okay we just doubled the price and cut the quality again. Now you can't watch the movies that you downloaded for offline viewing without an internet connection. Now your ad-free service has ads.

Netflix can take a long hard suck on my pudding factory, they're never going to see another penny of my money again, and this is from somebody that goes back to the DVD days of Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah, and we changed the movie too.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago

I rented a car to do Uber with while I apply for jobs, and the car is an electric. They had no gas powered cars available.

It is such a pain in the ass. I’ve only had it for a couple of days, but so far I’ve spent 2.5 hours today waiting for charge, and about 5 hours driving passengers.

I’m ready. I want to download a car. Just need someone to point me in the right direction.