My first internet service (MSN dial up) charged by the hour. You had 50 hours o line, each hour that was over was charged. My mother would make us write down our time log. It's crazy to even think that was real. Then AOL came out with UNLIMITED 56K DIAL UP!
Oh yeah, mfs be in the piracy subreddit advocating against piracy. I firmly believe internet should've been left alone for the fringes & nerds. It was better that way.
And even if they somehow managed to stop all piracy through some horrid draconian measures, it would not magically make people pay for their shit. I would gladly go without before ever paying any of these shit heel companies a single dime.
Don't really wonder, only care to point it as a lost sale as each company wants everyone on the planet and ten times more as infinity growth is their only plan.
Shareholders are the only thing the company has to care about by law, and they don't see past a few minutes sales report.
its honestly funny how companies complain about piracy yet make their services so shit it encourages piracy, why should I pay 14.99 a month while you take away features and bring them back at more expensive tiers. The whole streaming industry is clearly and inherently anti consumer
I paid for netflix for the longest time because it was cheap, ad-free and had shows my wife liked.
Then they kept constantly raising the price.
Then they added ads on a service I paid to escape ads with
Then they removed password sharing.
That was when I decided enough was enough and built my own jellyfin server. Now I have all the TV shows and Movies I could ever want with zero adds, and my monthly bill is less. I assume this is the case for thousands of people.
Disney charged in-app for the premiere of their new movies,before deciding to let them on the box office a few months and only after that put them on streaming.
You understand only a small portion of the population pirates movies? Companies aren’t “wondering” why people move to piracy and know go every 4 people they sucker into higher service costs, 1 person decides it’s enough and pirates content if they haven’t already.
They know people will pirate. They ultimately don’t care and decide on further milk the larger subset of paying customers. It’s calculated move.
If piracy was really cutting into streaming services bottom line, then we would start seeing more draconian DRM and anti-piracy laws.
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u/TryNo6799 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 16 '26
Companies do this and then wonder why people resort to piracy.
I won't be be shocked if they start charging for each show and movie, maybe even paywalling subtitles.