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>Age of piracy is going to end as well.

I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other.

>You are dreaming if you think media and production companies are going to leave $90/mo on the table. You will see prices rise.

Then so do my sails

>Talk about entitled!

Not really, I'm willing to pay you something for it, just not the scalpers price you want me to pay to test the waters. If a show is really good I buy it on blueray because I value the show and want more of it/want to reward the quality of the show. If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical.

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>I don't know how to break this to you but as long as there are more than one country there's going to be one that will not hunt down the privateers of the other.

Ok. Piracy will be made harder and harder, to the point where it will be inaccessible to mainstream. This also means that the tech savvy pirates will be more exposed.

>If studios weren't greedy and produced objectively garbage content I would buy a product on faith but in a world where there are how many Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I'll be more skeptical.

That entire paragraph is weirdly nonsensical. You don't have an ineliable right to watch movies, you aren't the universal judge of movie quality (lots of people like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), and you aren't entitled to dictate how you want the business of media to operate (i.e. you get to pick how much or how little you pay). It's one thing to pirate, it's another to think you're a 'good guy'.

I'd like to hear how you think piracy will be made more difficult. I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I am just curious as I have only seen the piracy community grow in recent years.

It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more restrictive techniques and outright deny content to paying customers.

See the new DRM features in Windows 10 and the way the Windows Store version of Netflix interacts with perfectly legitimate screenshot tools, or the way Netflix simply refuses to provide 4k content to any other platform.

I'm not the author of GP, but I'm really feeling his vibe.

> You don't have an inalienable right to watch movies

If you include news and documentaries, I kinda do. Though not quite as righteous, I get a little indignant that some company gets to dictate how much I'll have to pay to remain informed of our shared (though purely-entertainment) culture.

> universal judge of movie quality

The word "objectively" here is used like "literally", a in a meaningless sentence enhancer.

> you aren't entitled to dictate how you want the business of media to operate

I think I should be, it's my money I'm giving them after all, I'd like to have a vote in the content, how I access it, and even how much it's worth.

>(i.e. you get to pick how much or how little you pay)

Demand and supply: if you want to charge more than I want to see your service I guess I can unsubscribe; I wish we could barter about it. However, if I have to pay $39.99/month for who knows how long to watch one documentary, which I know was dirt cheap to make, I'm going to feel so morally justified while I pirate it that I will indeed think I'm the 'good guy'.

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