Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

    • eagleeyedtigerEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Stuff like this is pretty much why piracy will always exist. Streaming services are becoming the new sky/cable TV. I read Amazon is going to be including ads with prime video now as well.

        • eagleeyedtigerEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I wonder how much of it was it running as a loss or more that they realised they could make even more money with ads, now that everything is fractured and other platforms are doing the same.

          I don’t see it as much to worry about to be honest. As long as I’ve been using the internet, they’ve been trying to fight piracy but someone always finds a way around it. For people just consuming media I doubt they will bother with. It must be a lot harder to prove now days with ISP’s using shared public IP addresses and the prevalence of VPN’s. Not to mention that even with piracy they’re still raking in millions and there’s enough precedence now that piracy is not equal to a lost sale.

            • eagleeyedtigerEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Do you know if there have been any cases like that recently? I know there have been for those running sharing sites or servers but haven’t really heard of them going after single users like they used to.

              I can see them going after crackers/encoders or those that run piracy services and are part of scene groups, but it doesn’t seem worth it for users any more. With the perpetually online world most people who aren’t even that techy know how to pirate these days.

              I mean it probably costs them more in lawyer fees than any money they can get from joe bloggs downloading a few movies or tv shows.