The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • greater_potater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 years ago

    hopefully this is just a ‘blip’ and rates of theft begin to fall again as the economy recovers.

    If not, we can expect to see legal channels raising their prices again to cover the losses caused by piracy.

    This is a crazy thing to write. Every streaming service already has their prices set at whatever they think will maximize profit. If they raise prices in response to piracy, they’ll push even more people away.

    If anything, piracy will serve as competition, and it will cause the streaming services to lower prices.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      piracy will serve as competition

      for shows sold exclusively to one streaming service then piracy is indeed the only competition

    • applebusch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Wow they’re just straight up calling it theft now. They can’t even pretend to understand the difference.