I’m not watching a whole ass video to tell me “because streaming fragmentation is worse than ever”
Also it’s unlikely it actually almost died
I never stopped, OG Captain from Napster and long time NZB gang.
Yeah, I don’t think piracy ever came close to dying. It definitely slowed down for a small time when Netflix was the only real player in the streaming space, as a lot of pirates didn’t actually mind paying for a service as long as it worked and had content. For those people, piracy was a service issue, not a cost issue.
Now that Netflix doesn’t have anything to watch and the content is spread across dozens of networks (again), piracy is back on the menu for that specific demographic. But there will always be a demo that will pirate no matter what, be it principles or be it cost.
Definietly not, but it dropped from the ‘mainstream’ knowledge base and people who only knew screaming are ‘discovering’ it now.
That speaks more toward general tech illiteracy than anything else.
GenZ might be even worse than boomers when it comes to learning how to use tech. That is why so many solutions are basically automated these days so that you can treat everything like it is a streaming site.
Tech illiteracy today is insane. I had to help my parents connect up the TV as a kid, and now I have to help my kids connect up their TV/PC. Obviously a lot wrong with that statement (I. E. Not everyone leans techy) but it does make me feel like my age group is the only ones that have a vauge idea what is going on
Turns out people will stop caring about your property rights if you take the things thry paid for away from them. They also like things to be convenient and easy! Who knew?
The craziest thing about online piracy is that Donald J. Trump is in the Epstein files.
This comment made my day
It made my hole weak.
It almost died when?
Any pirated content that I’ve looked for over the past 20 years has been easily accessible.
The only reason why I’ve slowed down is due to the quality of content.
In the professional world it’s called “Distributed backups” and is recommended technique for archiving. I’m doing my bit daily at no charge to the media industry, just out of the goodness of my heart :)
bring back shareware tbh
Turns out making it easier to pay and access content (ie. Steam) actually encourages consumers to pay. Weird.
Every one is else is doing piracy while I’m doing “digital content preservation”. These companies would happily send you a letter telling you to destroy all copies of a book In your house if they had the right to. You must resist.
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn’t even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
On the other hand movie and shows piracy is rising for the anti-consumer platforms, who can pay $200 a month for seeing all decent shows and movies without ads? Very few people, and even then you own nothing.
I have a feel that music piracy will rise soon too. As Spotify already have started the anti consumer route. I’m pretty sure in a few years it’s subscription won’t be as worth it as it used to be, and a lot of people will find out that they have been paying for years and still own nothing.
The second that valve goes public and gets horribly enshittified , it will grow exponentially.
I have codex steamdrm crack at good custody for saving my library when it happens.
Is that something that universally works on all Steam games? If so, is this something one can find on public torrent trackers?
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn’t even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
I don’t know the numbers so I can’t comment on that, but you do realise the vast majority of games don’t launch with Denuvo right? And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed recently, pirated, right at launch, because they didn’t have DRM. Isn’t it still true that nothing on GOG has DRM at all?
And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
Sega, Ubisoft, and Atlus being notable exceptions. They just leave that shit in forever.
Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn’t fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don’t get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don’t have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.
We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.
Music piracy’s still alive here and there. The torrents I usually find are massive FLAC files that have very little advantage over much smaller MP3s though. I might need to buy some really fancy gear to appreciate it maybe.
Music piracy basically amounts to not using sponsored AI playlists
Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
that’s what music piracy has become today !
How exactly is Steam consumer friendly? Or is the bar so low that companies that don’t shoot themselves in their feet by mistake because they were actually aiming for the customer are considered “consumer friendly”?
The bar is, indeed, very low. By comparison I don’t feel as predated as in other shops.
I’m going to guess that Paramount/CBS will be filling up some hard drives, at least until they kill of all the content people wanted to watch in the first place. Paramount, the next fox news.
Fuck Paramount solely because of the Halo show…
You know what this means. They’re gonna be tightening things up as soon as they smell slowing down profit growth. If you live in a copyright haven, make sure your anon VPN, blocklists and all that are setup correctly.
Hoping for the Netherlands!!!
