Because these piracy services also affect them. These services restream the content taking away revenue from the small streaming services. In many cases we're talking about volumes less than 100. So these restream services pop up, illegally use trademarks and copyrighted materials to advertise, and can reduce volumes enough that they are no longer viable.

Sometimes these things affect regular people trying to make life work too. Not just billionaire assholes who legitimately deserve the criticism.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Would you really put the blame on piracy for that when there are conglomerates manipulating the entire market? I'm not doubting they exist, but can you name a small business streaming service that would be affected by pirate services? I have never heard of such a company. I've seen small streaming services utilized by libraries but they are on government contracts and tax funded as far as I know.

[–] madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Local motorsports in the US.

It's a whack-a-mole of services which restream content, but the piracy services are also subscription based.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 10 months ago

Since the fruit hangs so low: Yes, small creators get affected by it as well.

But what do we say to cops that dont snitch on their "bad apple" colleagues? Correct, they are part of the problem.

So from that I deduce that small creators (like myself) need to stand up against these practices or be considered part of the problem.

Have a good one.