• Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    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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      11 months ago

      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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        11 months ago

        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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      11 months ago

      They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.

      Intellectual Property is an illness.