Basically, the main advantage to piracy is price. No legitimate vendor is going to beat $0
It also used to be that you’d get sub-par quality compared to the physical version. However pirates have really stepped up over the last 20 years and now often offer the best version of any given media. Lossless audio and 4K video are widely available.
The place where legitimate services still beat piracy is convenience. Streaming services are easy to use, the content is always what it says it is, and people generally want to do the right thing and pay for services rather than steal them.
However, when piracy beats legit options on both price and convenience, people flock to piracy.
Yep. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing and disrupted my ability to use my brothers account once in a while, i switched to a plex share. It costs less, doesn’t give a damn about who’s licensing what, has no ads and doesn’t try to spy on me.
Piracy isn’t just a price thing. It’s literally more convenient than having 4 or 5 streaming services and still potentially needing to pay extra just to watch a major movie that just came out
It’s how the market shakes out.
Basically, the main advantage to piracy is price. No legitimate vendor is going to beat $0
It also used to be that you’d get sub-par quality compared to the physical version. However pirates have really stepped up over the last 20 years and now often offer the best version of any given media. Lossless audio and 4K video are widely available.
The place where legitimate services still beat piracy is convenience. Streaming services are easy to use, the content is always what it says it is, and people generally want to do the right thing and pay for services rather than steal them.
However, when piracy beats legit options on both price and convenience, people flock to piracy.
Yep. When Netflix cracked down on password sharing and disrupted my ability to use my brothers account once in a while, i switched to a plex share. It costs less, doesn’t give a damn about who’s licensing what, has no ads and doesn’t try to spy on me.
I didn’t pirate for around ten years when Netflix had everything and Disney with Hulu was $15.
It was so much less hassle it was worth it.
Now it isn’t worth it.
Piracy isn’t just a price thing. It’s literally more convenient than having 4 or 5 streaming services and still potentially needing to pay extra just to watch a major movie that just came out
Honestly after so long sailing the high seas, I find streaming interfaces clunky and annoying. I like all my stuff in a nice clean file tree.
Piracy is not stealing.
Would you download a car?
Hell yeah, if I could.
I already did. But the STL is huge and I don’t know what to do now.
You got a 3D printer? Just slice it into pieces and reassemble after printing.