EU online piracy on the rise as consumers feel the pinch
thenextweb.com
Online piracy in the EU is increasing for the first time in years, driven by a lack of legal alternatives and income inequality.

I was fine when it was just Netflix and Hulu. Corporate greed pulling their content to get their own piece of the pie en masse made me hoist the flag and join the Kodi Real-Debrid gang.

  • fu@libranet.de
    10·
    10 months ago

    @Pixelle3D yep. When Netflix was basically the only game in town they beat out pirating as the market has shown they are willing to pay for convenience. But with the saturation in the market making the convenience not convenience…que return of the pirates.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      And if you setup your seedbox correctly, piracy is more convenient than any streaming service.

      • fu@libranet.de
        1·
        10 months ago

        @Petter1 probably true, its always been a hardware issue for me. But the whole “setup” is what turns away much of the general public.

        If governments would just get out of the damn way…

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Docker and linuxserver.io are your friend regarding setup 😄 and yea hardware may be a bit expensive, but as a single user, you may just rent a little stack at a privacy respecting server farm (and cold backup your stuff some other where)