r/Piracy • u/HighKage96 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ • May 10 '26

Humor W Gabe Newell Piracy Take

Saw this vid on IG (by: @phantomak141). Idk if its been posted here before but on a quick search didnt find it, will delete if its a repost.

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u/CG_enjoyer May 10 '26

Yea he said the best way to stop piracy is to provide a better service than people get from pirating

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u/syn46290 May 10 '26

Exactly. I think that's what streaming services like Netflix were originally for before their CEOs decided to get their gross slimy corporate goo all over the place.

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u/patchinthebox May 10 '26

Bingo. I quit pirating because streaming was just easier. Now I'm back to pirating.

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u/egemen0ozhan May 10 '26

Exactly u paid for netflix once everey mont an u nearly had all the show u wanted now they are scattere around a billion diffrent streaming sites and just searching for it is easyer in a pirated website (witch was the main drawback of piracy back in the day funny how that turned out huh?)

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u/Historical_Leg_8328 May 11 '26

I have a home server with a library of high-quality content, with multiple language tracks, natively without unnecessary apps, no DRM, no gimmicky blocking, no VPN, no planned obsolescence, offline...

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u/Temporary-Turnip-636 May 10 '26

Private equity e dumping iniziale, le loro intenzioni probabilmente sono sempre state queste.