Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.
He usually doesn’t like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it’s the right move to pirate
Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn’t pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.
He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let’s all hope that day is soon.
What are your piracy habits?
The unfortunate truth is that 10 dollars a month is not enough to produce TV shows and movies for. Stuffing it all into one platform can (and should) work, but you’ll be paying not that much less than buying all the streaming services separately.
I suppose streaming companies could set up a two tiered system, one for shows before streaming media that have made back their investment and one for producing new stuff, but that’d only raise the price.
I’m all for making stuff more accessible. I pirate the 1080p copies that Amazon won’t send to my rooted phone to prevent piracy. I pirate the 1080p Netflix shows that Netflix won’t show me because I’m on Linux. I have subscriptions to both and will sometimes use my Chromecast without pirating, but as long as these companies go out of their way to make my experience worse, I’ll just pirate shit on the side.
I’ve also decided never to join Disney+ after they pulled all of their interesting content off Netflix to make their shitty streaming service more attractive. I pirate Disney out of principle. Same goes for companies knowingly abusing copyright law like DMCA to bully people, like Nintendo likes to do.
I try to avoid indie stuff like indie movies. I also try to buy games I play on my PC, mostly out of convenience. I still pirate some games to see if they run on my system (bring back demos, please!) but last time I did that I’ve bought Cyberpunk for full price a few days later.
Oh let’s be real here, this is what capitalism does. It chooses the worst possible option for entertainment because it’s what makes the most money. What makes the most money is not making you happy, but getting you to stay subscribed.
Let me tell you the real secret. You know what it costs to rent a movie online? And stream it? And then never watch it again? Yeah now justify that against streaming services.
I’ll tell you right now, go get Plex. If you don’t already use a media server, start. Because chances are that you don’t actually watch 90% of what’s on those services. So that $15 a month for content you don’t own could easily be $20 a month on content that you do actually own. Not to mention there’s no ads involved and you can stream as many devices as you want from anywhere. Get friends to pitch in and it’s even better.
The ONLY argument for this is convenience of all the shows at your fingertips. Except now that’s not the case and they’re on different services, screw it, either pirate the media or buy it used on disc.
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Agreed, totally depends on how much you watch. But shopping used DVDs and like I said banding together with friends to buy content eventually begins to work out better for you.
I’m not someone who consumes tv and movie content en masse so it works out for me to do this and for a lot of people who watch a season or two of a show a month, it’s not that much more expensive to own.
What I meant about the capitalism concept is that the core idea isn’t about enjoyment or getting to watch what you want. It’s not about convenience anymore. This is a capitalistic cycle where it stops innovating and starts to poison it’s consumer.
So shows will now be splintered across services, shows will get cancelled for being less profitable, and the overall quality will dip because we’re driving art to the bottom price. Whatever makes shareholders more money. And is this true? I feel like it is. Quality of shows has dipped quite a bit to fit the streaming service pricing.
We can argue about whether people want that or not, but it’s basically just what’s been done with every other consumer item. Dominate the market, lose money, get the subscribers, and then make their experience shittier over time.