No happiness... just material needs.
D61
joined 4 years ago
Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.
I'd bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.
Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.
Also... like... if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit, which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?
The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a "how to steal other companies copyrighted work" forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.
A man makes blankets and he "works in textiles" a woman makes blankets and she "has a hobby making quilts".
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Don't have time to read the research paper linked by the article at the moment...
But isn't the research just looking at how people view the message and not "were you pirating stuff and now you're not?"
tldr
"Womens, get your mans to pirate you the latest season of Outlander"
Does Netflix still do the "free trial period" and "get free months if a friend sent you" thing?
Are there any numbers about how many unsubscribers to compare to the subscribers? That'd be a juicy number.
I don't think its that complex. Group A gave permission for Group C to move into Group B's place. Group C decided to get a bunch of Group N's support to start the liquidation of Group B.
Decades of Group B, playing to the "Rules Based Order" crowd resulting in no end to the violence Group C was doing to Group B resulted in Group B being more and more okay with countering violence with armed resistance.
Here we are.
I mean, my home is filled with ancient laptops that we use until they explode, its a pretty common occurrence when trying to watch something streaming the ads would load just fine but the actual show wouldn't actually load. So... shrug