As if the Prime Video app couldn’t get any worse.

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What’s Gabe’s lesson?

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“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

“If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”

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And I haven’t pirated a game in I don’t even know how long now because of Steam.

TV show? Last week.

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I’ve only pirated one game recently and that’s only because you can’t really get it legally anymore.

Fuck you Microsoft for killing games for windows live and killing a bunch of PC games in the process.

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I do pirate games that I buy on Steam - just to have a backup copy in case something happens to my account. I want to truly own my media. Nonetheless, this is the only place I have paid for media since we ditched the DVD player)

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Piracy is a service problem.

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There’s a reason I use spotify and steam.

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Yeah, theres a very good reason I dont use Spotify anymore. Not any music streaming services at all. Only good ol’ reliable mp3s. Their idea of “service” is to silently remove songs from my playlists as their licenses expire, and then top it by replacing “Hotel California” with the WORST cover song I’ve ever heard.

Imagine if Sony stopped selling on Steam, and Steam in response silently replaced my “Days Gone” game with “The Day Before”? I would have been so pissed. But with music it seems that is totally okay.

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