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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 43 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Instead of focusing on external threats and concerns, legal streaming platforms themselves could make the most progress by changing their pricing.

Among all self-proclaimed Norwegian pirates, the most common reasons to stop were more affordable legal streaming services (41%) and the availability of a broader range of content per service (35%).

It's almost like people don't like paying more and more for streaming services with less and less shows on them, when the pirates will offer you everything in one much smaller subscription (if not for free).

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No. If I had money to spend on media, "affordable legal streaming services" would NOT stop me from pirating. Broad availability of DRMless media purchases would.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago

you'd be one of few. Most people don't mind compensating others for services, but when services turn to extortion and lock-in with sub-par digital content players piracy becomes a lot more attractive. Not many can afford 4-5 subscriptions (with Prime you need sun-subscriptions too) and all of it's expense and complexity. Singular aggregate platform with a cost equaling today's single subscription cost would probably eliminate good chunk of "piracy". We can only watch so much in a day so given that streaming companies price things out and provision for that there's no more impact on them if multi-service subscription costs the same as a single-service and it will reduce need for piracy, as it's also a hassle to look for content and get all twitchy whether you going to get trojaned or swatted for doing so.