'Piracy Shield' Fails to Convert Pirates to Paying Subscribers, Data Suggest * TorrentFreak

Italy's 'Piracy Shield', despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites, has failed boost viewership for legal services like DAZN.

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GreenEngineering3475 @lemmy.world

7mo ago

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But now they have a nice censor infrastructure in Place. Luckily they don't have some right-wing nutjobs in the Government who could abuse that power in the future
/S
- But it's to help prevent child exploitation! Anybody against it must be a pedophile! /s
  
  The rallying cry of the folk that don't want you to remember that they're almost all actually kiddy diddles and human traffickers.
- Thank the gods you put an /S at the end.
- Wouldn't and couldn't.
For the yearly cost of a single streaming service I could buy more DVDs than I could ever watch.
Did you know you can borrow DVDs from the library ... for free.
I would never waste another cent on streaming, the value proposition got flushed down the toilet when every single studio got into the game.
- They will eventually stop to release physical media unfortunately.
  
  they will eventually stop getting my money then.
  I have a lot of straight to DVD B movies but I also have a lot of 4k steel books. Collectors are worth significantly more to the studios than they seem to realise. people who want the quality of physical media aren't going to settle for streaming over the internet.
- I still have VHS copies of rental DVDs
  and a good chunk of my early MP3 collection was from my hometown library.
- Where are you finding DVDs in 2025?
  
  Thrift stores for less than a dollar each usually in 10 for $5 type deals. multi disc sets are your friend and sometimes they don't differentiate between DVD and blue ray either, I've got quite a few blu rays this way.
  DVDs are where VHS was about a decade ago, get what you can while it's cheap. I even got a pile for free when a pawn shop was dumping stock to get out of the market.
  Also DVDs are still being pressed because there's no licensing fee on the format so it's still profitable to make new ones.
- I watch around 200 movies a year, I don't think I could buy that many DVDs for the same money I pay for streaming. I also pirate but mostly movies that are not on my streaming services.
  
  ironic you choose almost the exact number you could buy with the lowest tier of netflix
  and that's before multi disc sets and resale value.
  and libraries not only lend movies but more than likely also have a streaming service too.
  paying the mega corps for their slop is a choice.
What??? People who are fed up with the megacorpos shittin on everyone, aren't willing to pay for the services of those megacorpos when the free/torrent sources are removed? I am shocked!
- But, but the corporations are telling us that they loose so much money from all those people who are pirating and therefore not 'buying' their stuff.
  I mean the numbers they showed where huge! Hmm, maybe they forgot to carry the one or swapped some +/- diring their calculations.
  
  These corpos have PhDs in creative accounting. A billion dollar revenue at the box office would still count as a loss on the ledger so as to fuck over everyone naive enough to opt to get paid out from "net profit"
  
  Corpos talk a lot, without actually saying anything...
who'd have thought that people wouldn't want to pay or something they used to get for free.
- Who would have thought people aren't paying for stuff that's not worth paying for?
No shit

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