• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    We’ve done this dance already.

    • Bully everyone and pass restrictive laws yields more piracy than ever, and a good crop of mentors for future pirates.
    • Build quality streaming services with excellent selection of media, and the piracy community shrinks. (Sad, when it happens, because there’s evidence that wide-coverage digital media preservation is nearly impossible without the piracy community.)

    It’s almost like the Movie Industry doesn’t care about any of the things they claim they care about…

    Edit: I guess it’s possible they’re playing out a long con to ensure their favorite episodes of “I Love Lucy” survive…

    Edit 2: No, I don’t really think they’re somehow secretly not the assholes they appear to be.