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Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] jagoan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Paying somebody for streaming film and TV shows that they have no hand in producing, and thus not supporting new productions — same as I can download for free myself? — that makes no sense to me

It makes sense for me. The one i’m using is $20 per year. I just think of it as convenience fee. It has netflix features but for all movies and tv shows.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I understand why people do it, but for me it's a principle thing. I'm not going to pay someone for content they stole. Fuck that.

I generally don't have a problem with copyright infringement, but people who make a profit from it are scumbags.

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

And like I said, I get convenience/availability. I guess paying for stolen goods is one step too far for me. Like, "Dude, pass it around, but it's not yours to sell".