• restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.

    I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I’d also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.

    • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Because piracy is the boogieman that allows them to wrestle more power and profit from everyone around them like the parasites they are. They want a cut every time anyone ever watches something, ever. And they want to control if you even have the option of what to watch.

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        7 months ago

        Once Neuralink’s installed adn they start selling off our thoughts to information collection bureaus, they’re gonna want us to pay a license for everytime we think about someting not in the public domain

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      7 months ago

      I live in the EU, have all major streaming subscribtions within the family, and we couldn’t watch Terminator 2 anywhere. One of the most famous classic action movie, not even available for purchase on Apple TV.

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      7 months ago

      I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem.

      It doesn’t have to be rational “profit-maximization”. Look at comments in threads that pertain to AI training, web scraping, etc. A lot of ordinary people seem to believe that this is how it’s supposed to go.

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          A lot of noisy people here have a very expansive view of intellectual property. They seem to want total control over anything they “own”, without any regard for the consequences. There’s no room for any kind of fair use. Where they can’t own something, they still want to own it.

          With some horror, I recall a thread where the mob called for making robots.txt legally binding. That wasn’t big tech lobbyists, just some ordinary users here.