Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

  • Evotech@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, piracy is the last bastion of privately controlled media files

    Doesn’t seem like it’s going away though

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      2 days ago

      Until they enforce government ID verification on every website & ban VPN’s. Mark my words, that’s what they’ll try to push under the guise of “save the children”

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        2 days ago

        The .torrent files would just be distributed over i2p or tor then. It’d be one add-on to the seedbox. Nothing would change for most people already familiar with docker etc.