Why Piracy Will Never Stop

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This video covers the systemic issues of piracy, and how its history as a practice has allowed it to persist, particularly during the advent of the World Wide Web.

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[nationsquid]

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[bigboiproductions]

remember kids pirating adobe products is always morally correct

[ragalthor]

If purchasing a game doesn't gives me ownership, then pirating it shouldn't be considered stealing.

[expithesocfurry]

"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." - Gabe Newell

[Jared_Wignall]

I’m for Physical Media, but if a company won’t release a particular film or show I enjoy on Blu-Ray or 4K Blu-Ray, I won’t feel bad about pirating it.

[SovietskijSoyuzFB]

As a southamerican, I can tell most of the common people can't afford 60 or 120 dollars to buy legit software.

[Skelig]

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
- Gabe Newell

[plcerider]

Rar: "Trial ended. Pay us now!"
Users: "No"
Rar: "Understandable. Have a great day"

[FeralChocobo]

Piracy is about ease of availability. In the early 2010's piracy dropped dramatically with services like Steam and Netflix. Why did it drop? Because it was easy to buy with Steam and easy to find what you wanted with Netflix. What's changed? Well now there are 6 million streaming services and every company and their dogs have launchers/storefronts and everything now is so fractured and disjointed. So over the last few years, piracy has risen once again. Add to this, the addition of performance-killing DRM such as Denuvo, pirated versions often end up with superior versions.

[bayuchandrasukma]

If I pay for anuthing, I deserve to have backups and stuff for me to use anytime, anywhere, at any devices.

[blastradius]

I tried to download a car once because of those commercials. I failed... But damnit it tried!!!

[connerowenn]

Piracy is the only way regular people like us can fight the greedy companies trying to squeeze every last penny out of their customers. With every single channel having their own streaming service now, you're basically paying for cable again.

[plagueofangel]

They almost found the perfect solution to greatly reduce piracy by making access to movies and music incredibly easy. Hell, i think music piracy is still down because of Spotify, youtube etc etc.

Movies though? Now you need a chart explaining what streaming service has what portion of the show you want to watch to find it. Its legitimately easier just to pirate a show than it is to even keep track of streaming services

[Frak_MMBDM]

You're more likely to get arrested for jaywalking by now.

[flamshiz]

if the Download A Car people didn't want us to pirate stuff, they shouldn't have made it look so cool

[JonaaBLKWL]

I got a digital copy that came with a Blu-ray of an anime I bought. With the death of Funimation, my legitimate digital media literally got stolen from me. Ownership is important. Games, movies, music, books, software, you're just paying for access that can be revoked at any time. We'll be just a bunch of digital serfs, owning nothing and paying huge amounts of hard-earned money to virtual fiefdoms for shreds of entertainment we have no control over.

[ncrtrooper]

if buying isnt owning piracy isnt stealing

[Hamsterlady]

There are also situations like the Sony one from last year where their contract with Warner Bros. Discovery ended and they told everyone they'd lose all access to any Discovery content they ever purchased on the PlayStation Store, forever. The backlash was intense enough that they renewed the contract for "at least the next 30 months, " but 30 months still isn't forever, or even very long at all relative to how long a bluray lasts. The more things like this happen, the more confidence in digital distribution will be shaken, and the more people will resort to piracy as companies continue to shoot themselves in the foot.

[Forrest_O.]

I will never stop. No one will stop me. The big companies won't lose too much money from me.

[Lovuschka]

If piracy is bad, then why does Sony do it all the time by removing movies that you bought etc.?