• dismalnow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Netflix is forgetting that a large part of their success was due to being more convenient than piracy.

    Oddly, I have noticed that most people I know aren’t interested in taking the minimal risk to sail the seas now that there’s widespread cause.

    Back when Netflix was awesome, I knew a LOT more people who were willing to dive in to the technical stuff, risk, and additional effort to strap on an eye patch.

    Anyone’s guess on the root cause, but I feel like the amount of people on the interwebs now have absolutely no idea (or interest) how anything works. “Push colorful button to do things” seems to be it.

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      1 year ago

      Or it has to do with ISPs being far more aggressive in sending threatening letters if you do it without burrying it behind obfuscation and encrypted vpns.

      Also, people dont know what the new trustworthy sites are today, since all the ones they knew 10 years ago are probably gone.