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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 61 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Anyone who still forks money to billionaires for entertainment might be stupid.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I agree with the sentiment but if a large majority would stop using these services and pirating wouldn't it result in either less entertainment or more crackdowns?

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 69 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Nope. It resulted in the original Netflix, aka a service that actually worked and had everything we wanted for a time. Direct reaction to mass piracy and actually reduced it by 90℅ iirc.

You also can't crack down on non centralized services and the more decentralized nodes, the harder the job becomes and the more expensive. At some point it will become uneconomic to go after pirates.

And, yes there will be massively less movies & shows which is very good. We live in a fresh hell where billionaires push out half baked shit every week and the only way to tell them is to not buy it.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

They really should have just built their own Netflix but profits get split amongst the copyright holders. Every single one of their analysts was warning them what would have happened if they couldn't solve this real world game theory problem.

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