GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 hours agoAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageAnon gives a piracy history lessonsh.itjust.worksGolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 hours agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 hours agoOP must be a 2000s kid, because we were definitely pirating stuff over the Internet long before that. They also didn’t mention Netflix’s DVD service, nor that it was really Steam that did what they described.
minus-squarechickenf622@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 hours agoI would argue that what Steam did for video games is what Netflix did for movies and tv shows. They made the legal option way more convenient and affordable it wasn’t worth the hassle to pirate. That has changed now (at least in Netflix’s case).
minus-squareunitedwithme@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·37 minutes agoOP says ~2007 internet (asumming bandwidth and avail content) got good enough to become mainstem, not that I started around then.
OP must be a 2000s kid, because we were definitely pirating stuff over the Internet long before that.
They also didn’t mention Netflix’s DVD service, nor that it was really Steam that did what they described.
I would argue that what Steam did for video games is what Netflix did for movies and tv shows. They made the legal option way more convenient and affordable it wasn’t worth the hassle to pirate. That has changed now (at least in Netflix’s case).
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OP says ~2007 internet (asumming bandwidth and avail content) got good enough to become mainstem, not that I started around then.