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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by samrus on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:07AM (#43379634)
This is not correct. Look at steam, PC gamers overwhelmingly choosing paid DRM controlled games over free piracy, even for small indie games that have basically no protections

Ill say again what gabe newell said. Piracy isnt a price problem, but a service issue. Its convenient, if you can make a legit way to get the product thats as convenient for the user as piracy, then they will pay for it

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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by closetkantian on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:00AM (#43385839)
Yup. Just look at Spotify for an example. Almost no one uses Napster or anything like it anymore
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by aaronbaugher on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:11AM (#43436647)
Right. I haven't even considered pirating a game since GOG became a thing.
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