• Carion@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Most pirates doesn’t use the product if pirated version isn’t avaliable, they aren’t a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren’t paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy

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      Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever

      It’s free advertising and costs nothing to the artist

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        piracy also kept the music industry afloat

        And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like

        • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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          But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.

          TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.

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            They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.

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      people can build hype even if they aren’t paying

      Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn’t be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000’s