Half of Young Norwegians Justify Piracy as Streaming Costs Soar
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/1543236/half-of-young-norwegians-justify-piracy-as-streaming-costs-soar
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The rates increase further when specifically asked about pirating due to high streaming costs. Despite concerns about piracy, 61% of Norwegians paid for streaming services in the past year, including 64% of those under 30. Among active pirates, 41% said they would stop if legal services were more affordable, while 35% wanted broader content per service. Only 47% of respondents believed piracy supports organized crime, with 24% expressing uncertainty about this connection.
[1] https://torrentfreak.com/half-of-young-norwegians-say-online-piracy-is-an-acceptable-way-to-save-money-241119/
Same lesson the music industry learned early on... (Score:3)
Don't make it artificially scarce or too expensive via legal channels, or people will pirate. It's been shown over and over that most people are happy to pay reasonable prices for their media.
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Streaming with sensible pricing and packaging could have fixed all of this, but it's become Cable 2.0.
Time for the consumers to set the rules (Score:1)
The real pirate is indefinite copyright.
I would prefer to see less corrupt politicians elected to correct the problem and make the law respectable, but such is life.
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There are now international treaties to prevent individual countries from making their own rules.
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> There are now international treaties to prevent individual countries from making their own rules.
America pressured other countries to make those treaties as harsh as possible, then complained about the harsh terms.
This is yet another reason foreigners think Americans are dumb.
Enshittification (Score:3)
I have bought my music on vinyl.
I have re-bought my music on CD.
I keep paying for my music on streaming.
I'm done paying.
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A half-terrabyte SD card costs, what? $25.00? That's a lot of music. And it's all in my pocket and under my control, at all times.
Re: Enshittification (Score:2)
I hear you. No more ebooks or video either unless they're just one-time fluff that's unworthy of shelf space.
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If you like reading, the local public library has free book rentals. Taxpayers pay the bill. For some reason movies and tv shows aren't handled the same by western culture.
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My local library has lots of movies and TV shows on DVD.
The other half ... (Score:2)
... pirate because of the commercials overlaying the video, the embedded advertising interrupting and blocking the content, and the mandatory login/tracking that goes with every presentation. Even watching TV, I record it first so I can fast-forward over the commercial breaks, but I can't suppress when they resize the screen to show banner advertising on the sides, bottom, or overlay part of the show.
Morally questionable (Score:2)
Since when is "I can't afford it" justification for misappropriating something you're not entitled to?
It's not piracy that supports organized crime (Score:3)
It's the MAFIAA that opposes piracy.