Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Remember the actor strikes this year? One of the demands was to keep AI from copying the likeness of the actors and using that to replace them.

And these mother fuckers have the nerve to be worried I'm copying shit.

Ain't nobody needs to know the finances of my web3 unregistered securities pyramid scheme fraud.

Also, they still break the law and ask the question: "What the fuck are you going to do about it? Sue us?"

That's called an inconvenient truth. The fact of the matter is, if piracy was eradicated, concerts would be near empty and no one would know the music. Films that don't leak don't generally do as well unless you count blockbusters and even then, take Spider-Man, even if people pirate, fans will go and see it a few times. The problem isn't the piracy, it's that they can't profit off of it directly.

Hey, you can only listen/watch if you paid for it…

…in increasingly convoluted, limited and expensive ways designed to force you to subscribe to multiple platforms in order to access the same content you had seven years ago except for a lot more money and a lot less choice!

Why go through the trouble of pirating if you can pay for it and get a reasonable service?

That's why it's a service problem.
As a student (around 5-6 years ago) my friend and I both payed for a netflix account via gift cards because we wanted it and didn't have paypal or credit cards.

Now I pirate because there are way too many services, for too high of an asking price and fragmented catalog.
Want to see all the seasons of a show? Gotta subscribe to two or more services because one stroke a deal with the publisher while the 2nd got the other part.
Also censoring both in episode and by removing whole episodes, changing parts of something etc etc.

Fuck all the above. :|
I can just call up radarr, search the movie by the parameters I set up beforehand and decide what version I want and done.

Here's my take on it. Things like Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett, etc offer a better service then Disney+, Netflix, Hulu, etc. Devs could charge for the *arrs and a lot of people would pay. Why? Because it's completely a la carte. Right now if there are say three shows I'm interested in then I could have to pay for three different streaming services. But not only that, I would also have to be concerned with whether or not that show is leaving the platform anytime soon. In the case of Hulu, not only do I have to worry about paying them but I also have to worry about paying them enough that I don't have to watch ads after paying them.

Likewise with video games, there are games that have DLCs that require previous DLCs to fully unlock what they include. In other words, it is paywalling already paywalled content. I don't have a problem with the content, I have a problem with the way they present the content.

Not only its cheaper but also the service is starting to get better than if you'd pay for it

Why go through the trouble of pirating if you can pay for it and get a reasonable service?

I literally don't know any platform other than Steam that dose anything reasonable with digital content.

Copyright today is shit tho. It'd be more logical to talk about how much it costs the public to maintain a fundamentally broken system to keep a few companies with a dysfunctional business model on life support.

Rights holders take people and organisations to court for a lot of shit that should be thrown straight out of court. But no no, the people who protect and protected the interests of organisations that benefit from copyright laws wrote the copyright laws. If they couldn't pass their extremist copyright laws locally, they'd try again nationally, then internationally, until their contradictory and ass-backwards copyright laws got passed. Other countries copied these laws.

• Copyright laws implicit registration robs the public domain of works made by unidentifiable authors.
• Copyright laws force the digital world to play by impossible rules.
• Copyright laws forbid DRM circumvention, but that contradicts with existing copyright rights.
• Copyright laws forbid digitization of analog media if the judge considers this untransformative or unfair use.
• Copyright laws may allow snippet taxes for daring to use an excerpt of a news article without paying an arm and a leg.
• Copyright laws may forbid fair use, banning reviews, etc.
• Copyright laws force libraries to buy e-books under unfair conditions due to DRM and the digitization edge case.

... the list goes on. Copyright laws in their current form should be thrown in the trash and burned alive while we can. The EU Copyright Directive is so fundamentally broken that member states postpone enacting the directive into national laws, years after the set deadline. Member states copy and paste the directive, unwilling to spend the effort to revise existing laws to conform to the over-reaching copyright directive.

I think there must be some legal worry if they don't enforce their copyright so they have to pretend to care about low level piracy.

😂 you forgot the point where you double and triple buy overlapping streaming offerings because everyone gatekeeps their exclusives

Same thought. Why should I even want to host in GB. The host prices are probably higher as well compared to other (geologically) EU countries.