I don’t think this is a major “this is why people pirate”. Pirate sites also regularly get cracked (possibly more often the the average streaming service). It isn’t like bank details were leaked here so the only real difference is that in some pirate sites you don’t need a login at all.
Crunchyroll came from piracy, never felt right paying for it
Or…people pirate because they can. Let’s not take some sort of moral high ground here. I’m all for preserving lost media, but come on now. Just own download it.
Convenience is another important part of piracy, logging into 30+ subscriptions to watch 8 different shows is not fun. It’s just faster too.
Really? How many times does one have to actually login to a streaming service? Once? I love Plex just as much as the next pirate, but I don’t try to justify it with lame arguments.
Login in this scenario means access. I. E. having 10 different apps and searching through all of them for one show.
I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.
Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.
Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.
Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.
Competing with free is near impossible.
And yet when Netflix was good the amount of people who pirated went down a ton. I was on that train. Just give me a service that isn’t outrageously expensive, has most of the content i want, and is more convenient than pirating and I’ll do it, as long as i have an income.
Yeah early Netflix was great, now it’s too fragmented. Like a Tidal or Spotify would be useless if they would be fragmented on the same level.
I was on this train. I paid for Netflix for a handful of years. Really my only complaint is that I couldn’t share screenshots because of the DRM (you don’t want free advertising?). But then the selection went downhill, new seasons of shows I was watching started appearing on other services. The UI got worse and slow. I eventually started getting pissed off and was wondering why I was paying for a frustrating service.
I had a very similar arc for YouTube Premium a few years after that one, I must have been a subscriber for 5 years at least. But then it got worse and worse.
If anybody is curious about what that “GoG clone” is: gog-games.to
Sony and getting hacked, name a more iconic duo
Unclear whether they were hacked. A followup says:
We [Crunchyroll] have […] investigated the situation, and determined that there is no evidence that Crunchyroll’s systems have been compromised
They may have been fished.
