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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] glockenspiel 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, the good old days

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.