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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's the Metallica problem all over again. Piracy spread their content and made it popular; now they want to squeeze every last dollar out.

Most of the money 'lost' to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago

Most of the money 'lost' to piracy is money that never existed. With fragmented streaming services one picks what they are paying for and needs to find a way to watch the rest.

This was the very first thing that came to my mind. How much of this "lost" revenue from piracy is actually revenue they lost because the content isn't available legally where it is being consumed?