Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t...
by ethbr0 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:57PM
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Napster, the centralized service, was stopped.
Napster, P2P sharing of music, was not.
Piracy is held at bay only by the ease & affordability of legally obtaining media and difficulty accessing the technical means to accomplish it.
... and well-packaged piracy solutions and modern broadband bandwidth likely sink the maximum price (the only remaining term) below the cost of production.
It took me 20 minutes to go from nothing to an entire season saved locally and playing on a Roku. That's finding the software, installing, configuring, finding torrents, downloading, and then playing. And that's not having pirated in a decade or so.
Napster, P2P sharing of music, was not.
Piracy is held at bay only by the ease & affordability of legally obtaining media and difficulty accessing the technical means to accomplish it.
... and well-packaged piracy solutions and modern broadband bandwidth likely sink the maximum price (the only remaining term) below the cost of production.
It took me 20 minutes to go from nothing to an entire season saved locally and playing on a Roku. That's finding the software, installing, configuring, finding torrents, downloading, and then playing. And that's not having pirated in a decade or so.