The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    146·
    1 year ago

    The EUIPO speculates that financial pressures, like inflation, means that people have less money to spend on entertainment. This can be seen in the way that fewer people are signing up for Netflix or Amazon Prime – and some are even cancelling their subscriptions altogether.

    Ah yes, that’s the only reason. Not that streaming services are offering less content and functionality for more money, that can’t be it.

    • craigers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      As someone that went initially got back into piracy for the “no you just raised your prices for this one service I only use for this one show anyway, I’ll download it instead” reason. I have significantly increased my piracy because it’s honestly a much better user experience. For me to easily set sonarr/radarr to grab what I want and have a beautiful and customizable UI/UX like jellyfin to consume that content, which works on all my devices. Fucking Hulu, Disney, Amazon, peacock, max all suck in comparison from a pure UX perspective

      • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        58·
        1 year ago

        That’s not enough growth. It’s never enough. It literally can’t ever be enough.

        So they raise prices and pay for astroturfed articles blaming everything but the executives charged with infinite growth forever.

      • viperex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        First thing that came to mind. I want to see back to back to back quarters of falling subscribers