• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    Someone drank the koolaid.

    The source for your ridiculous figure is the lobbying arm of an industry notorious for mistreating workers and sacrificing everything including quality of product and basic human decency for the maximising of profits. It also has tons of corrupt influence on politics and media even by the alreeady rotten standards of American legal bribery.

    The reality is that every dollar lost to piracy is a hypothetical one as there’s far from any guarantee that anyone pirating something would have bought the media rather than pass it over completely if not able to pirate it. In fact, there’s a compelling argument to be had that word of mouth as a result of piracy often benefit a show, movie or even game much more than the, again, completely hypothetical, loss of sales hurts.

    Besides, the one you’re replying to is right: streaming as we know it today started as an effort by studios to maximise profits by making legitimate viewings easier than piracy. They’ve of course fucked THAT up by now, by acting like a streaming service is the same thing as the TV channels the vast majority of people happily abandoned.

    Like in politics, clueless boomer (and forgotten generation) dinosaurs are in charge of a world they no longer understand, to the immense detriment of all the people they’re supposed to serve except (some of) the money men.

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        You can’t just agree to disagree with reality. Whether you think that their demonstrably false statements and predatory actions are acceptable is a matter of opinion on which we can agree or disagree, but that they’re doing it is indisputable.

        I will however accept it as an implicit admission that you have no counter and honor your request to be allowed to be wrong about it in peace, assuming that you don’t have any more industry propaganda to regurgitate.

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          I’m pretty sure you don’t dictate reality kiddo. I’m disagreeing with YOU.

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            I’m not dictating anything, I’m describing well-documented industrywide actions and refuting known propaganda from bad actors.

            That’s the beauty of objective reality: it’s true whether you agree with it or not.

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              Lol… k. Apologies for raining on your little pirate parade, but you’re not the good guys. You never were.

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                There goes the bullshit binary thinking lol. I never claimed that all pirates are invariably right about everything, as that would be preposterous.

                That being said, though, the abuse, profiteering, propaganda and gaslighting that has infested the entertainment industry like a cancer is much worse than anything pirates ever did.