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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    1 year ago

    I 100% believe this. The video streamers are getting too greedy and pushing out too much subpar content. When it was affordable and easy to find what you want streaming was great. Now it’s expensive and stuff in on 12 different platforms.

    Also most of what I watch is older so everyone on the creative and production side has been paid the only ones making money at this point are the studio fat cats.

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      1 year ago

      Ads. It’s all because of ads. There is a low tolerance by way more people now, and piracy is more convenient than putting up with platforms that can’t build a UX to save their lives, and then put in ads. Fuck em, let them die.

    • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I disagree in that I don’t necessarily think all of the content is subpar. But making everything on a different service and each service continues to jack up its prices makes it very difficult to justify subscribing to any one of them. Like, I’m never gonna subscribe to peacock even though it has a few things I’d watch on it, that’s ridiculous.

      Everything doesn’t have to be a different service, studios are just being extraordinarily greedy.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a bizarre parallel to picking a hospital in America while you’re unconscious in a merc ambulance.

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          Imagine country where whereever ambulance brings you everything will be 100% covered by national insurance.