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A comment on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly. Parent comment

Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by denkmoon on Sunday February 04, 2024 @10:05PM (#39256821)
Pirates are better archivists than any media company. The effort put in to meticulous curation of content libraries on private trackers is really incredible.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by yukkuri on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:00PM (#39257140)
Look at the payoffs. The company's payoffs are those primarily of its C suite: bonuses paid based on short term results.

The unsanctioned archivists have the payoff of the enjoyment they get from preserving and sharing media they love, which has no built in time limit like the former.

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