As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way
“Piracy is not a pricing issue,” Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve, the company behind the world’s largest PC gaming platform, Steam, observed in 2011. “It’s a service issue.” Today, the crisis in streaming makes this clearer than ever. With titles scattered, prices on the rise, and bitrates throttled depending on your browser, it is little wonder some viewers are raising the jolly roger again. Studios carve out fiefdoms, build walls and levy tolls for those who wish to visit. The result is artificial scarcity in a digital world that promised abundance.
This hits the nail on the head…
I wonder if these greedy fuckers know this but don’t give a shit in favor of short term profits,or if they’re actually so dense and holed up in their own world disconnected from reality that they don’t see it?
They don’t care. They know they’ll lose subscribers but they’ll make more money overall on the suckers that stick out the monopoly pricing. Same thing is happening in the auto industry where they sell less cars but are more profitable.
This hits the nail on the head…
I wonder if these greedy fuckers know this but don’t give a shit in favor of short term profits,or if they’re actually so dense and holed up in their own world disconnected from reality that they don’t see it?
They don’t care. They know they’ll lose subscribers but they’ll make more money overall on the suckers that stick out the monopoly pricing. Same thing is happening in the auto industry where they sell less cars but are more profitable.