Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent original by 2018

Re:Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent... by AFNobody on Monday January 22, 2018 @08:55PM (#16210204)

> People aren't "driven to piracy". Piracy's a conscious decision to take what they want without paying for it.

Do you believe in psychological studies? Dark UI patterns?

Denying these things doesn't make it less true. People take the lowest effort route to the end goal.

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Re:Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent... by paulcole on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:09AM (#16211183)

Dark patterns don’t “make” people pirate.

Pirating is the act of saying, “I want something I don’t have the rights to have.” And then taking it. Period.

There’s no way to rationalize immoral unethical behavior by hiding behind “psychological studies” and “dark UI patterns”.

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Re:Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent... by AFNobody on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:55AM (#16214512)

You seem to think I'm rationalizing the morality of the act by pointing out the morality/ethics is really just another thing humans bend on when the incentives change.

If you want to argue incentives are fictional because "morality", I think we aren't going to have a productive discussion.

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