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Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly (torrentfreak.com)

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[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now I know this isn't exactly Netflix's fault, but they were doing great competing against piracy until every one decided they didn't want to share revenue with Netflix and broke off into a dozen crappy imitations. Now no single streaming service is really worth the money they want.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

This is it yeah they say that piracy isn't a money problem it's a service problem, one company charging 10 to $15 a month isn't horrible when everything's there but when there's seven different companies all charging 10 to 15 dollars a month for a significantly smaller portion, yea people are just gonna take the path of least resistance.

[–] lea@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

They are still the problem either way. Even back when it was just Netflix I cancelled my subscription because they incriminate their own paying customers with intrusive DRM. I was tired of only being able to watch 720p just because I was running Linux. All for a copy protection with 0% success rate since it gets ripped anyway.