In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.
They’re among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
What happened to good old pirating? We used to show them middle finger for wanting single payment from us, and now we do subscriptions for stuff we barely even use?
They changed tactics.
Pirating is work. You need a little technical expertise for debrid, or to set up a media server, or even to keep a bunch of USB storage organized. And while it’s not that hard, when they couple taking care of all that for you AND running your likes through an algo and introducing you to new content regularly, your average person sees enough benefit, if the price is right.
So they introduce a service, get the price down to 10-15 a month. Get you in, get your preferences, sell them to the highest bidder and slowly crank back content to make more profit.
For the music it’s worse, they’re fucking over the artists AND selling your data.
When the cost in price or morality gets too high, they’ll all pirate.
Some never stopped.
Pirates have historically been some of the biggest DVD collectors.
I have like 5 CD books filled with burnt DVDs of pirated shit. 😃
I used to buy the screenable CD’s and had an epson that could print labels, and I had the largest netflix delivery sub.
I trashed all that media recently. All those books fit on a large thumb drive these days.
Most of them are PS2 games, and I still have a functional slim PS2 (modded, of course)…