I pirate because it's more convenient, surprisingly I don't pirate games and music because of steam and spotify, steam is just convenient, so is spotify it's more convenient than fucking around with finding music you like
movies/tv shows it's more convenient to have my own plex server
Gaben himself in interviews says all data points towards the best way to combat piracy is by providing a good service/convenience. The biggest reason for piracy isn't money, surprisingly.
Personally I stopped sailing when streaming services just started. They were reasonably priced, they weren't fragmented, and I could hop to another one for a month and catch up on their exclusives. Then they started becoming bastards in every single aspect of convenience and cost so back to sailing.
Profit is what's leftover after everyone gets paid.
Profit, by definition is excess.
You might want to study some basic economics before you come across as being clever. You're buying into rhetoric that exists to take advantage of your ineptitude.
As Mark Twain once said, "it's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled."
LOL profit is the motive of literally every business on the planet. You don't even need "basic economics" to understand that.
As James Downey once said: "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this sub is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
I’m still not understanding what that has to do with this discussion.
I can tell. It's in response to your hyperbole, "Is it your hope that they will stop producing media for you to watch?" You are arguing that if they make less profit, then they won't make media at all which isn't true.
Is it your hope that they will stop producing media for you to watch?
If people had higher standards for what they spend their money on, businesses would have to meet those standards or go out of business. They can, they would just make less profit.
That means more money for you and me.
You really should study basic economics. It's sad watching you laugh and dismiss facts because they describe how you're being taken advantage of.
You are arguing that if they make less profit, then they won't make media at all which isn't true.
Buddy, you're the one that said "or they make nothing at all" , not me.
You really should study basic economics.
For the third time, none of this has anything to do with economics, basic or otherwise.
It's sad watching you laugh and dismiss facts because they describe how you're being taken advantage of.
It's sad watching you struggle with the difference between not paying for something and choosing to steal it. It's sad watching you poorly try to justify crimes because, in your opinion, it's too expensive. I'm not being taken advantage of. I pay what I think the service is worth, and when it fails to meet that value proposition, I simply don't watch it...
Typically, personally, I will subscribe to a service for a month or 2 at a time because by that time I have consumed everything interesting that it has to offer.