• kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    I don’t think this is a major “this is why people pirate”. Pirate sites also regularly get cracked (possibly more often the the average streaming service). It isn’t like bank details were leaked here so the only real difference is that in some pirate sites you don’t need a login at all.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      28 days ago

      Who logs into a pirate site, though? Who gives them their financial information?

      As a crunchyroll subscriber, this fucking sucks. They are not doing their jobs.

  • 3dmvr@lemm.ee
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    28 days ago

    Crunchyroll came from piracy, never felt right paying for it

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    29 days ago

    Or…people pirate because they can. Let’s not take some sort of moral high ground here. I’m all for preserving lost media, but come on now. Just own download it.

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      29 days ago

      I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.

      Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.

      Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.

      Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.

      Competing with free is near impossible.

      • BearGun@ttrpg.network
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        29 days ago

        And yet when Netflix was good the amount of people who pirated went down a ton. I was on that train. Just give me a service that isn’t outrageously expensive, has most of the content i want, and is more convenient than pirating and I’ll do it, as long as i have an income.