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Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The idea is supposed to be that these things wax and wane. And they mostly do.

We started stealing music with Napster -> the market eventually started offering affordable alternatives

We started stealing movies with The Pirate Bay -> studios finally came onboard with streaming

We stole games -> market reacted with serviced like Steam that make it too cheap and easy to bother pirating

And now that streaming greed seems to be biting them in the ass, we're due for another market correction.

We'll see, but I never stopped pirating. Only thing I pay for is Spotify because it's too damned convenient to get the music I want, anywhere I want, for $10/mo. Spotify: Test me with higher prices or stop me from making local downloads and I'll drop back to stealing that shit too.