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minus-squareblahsay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up45arrow-down4·1 year agoFun fact: Piracy is still supporting the film industry. We see movies, talk about it, free publicy, reviews etc. Apparently in the industry they consider the value of a pirated movie about 1/4 that of a paid one. Some programs etc would pretty much die without piracy like the Adobe suite
minus-squareCptEnder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·1 year agoCan confirm, work in the industry - we don’t care. The only reason there’s anti-piracy stuff out there is because the FBI pressured studios in the 90s to help stop brown people from bootlegging VHSs then later DVDs.
Fun fact: Piracy is still supporting the film industry. We see movies, talk about it, free publicy, reviews etc.
Apparently in the industry they consider the value of a pirated movie about 1/4 that of a paid one.
Some programs etc would pretty much die without piracy like the Adobe suite
Can confirm, work in the industry - we don’t care. The only reason there’s anti-piracy stuff out there is because the FBI pressured studios in the 90s to help stop brown people from bootlegging VHSs then later DVDs.