• foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Then floodgates of piracy opened as a means of being with exorbitant prices on music, and then television.

    The solution for the industry was to make it more convenient to pay them than it was to steal. Stealing never stopped, it just lessened, because it was more convenient to pay.

    Critical mistake, making it difficult for us to get what we want…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The fact that there are 11 quadrillion streaming services now makes me suspect that there actually cannot be a secret cabal of shady business types running the world. Because they are all far too interested in competing with each other to actually notice that if they stop doing that then they’d be better off.