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The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)

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[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 211 points 10 months ago

The EUIPO speculates that financial pressures, like inflation, means that people have less money to spend on entertainment. This can be seen in the way that fewer people are signing up for Netflix or Amazon Prime – and some are even cancelling their subscriptions altogether.

Ah yes, that's the only reason. Not that streaming services are offering less content and functionality for more money, that can't be it.

[-] baked_tea@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Netflix has +9 million users in the past quarter

https://www.statista.com/statistics/250934/quarterly-number-of-netflix-streaming-subscribers-worldwide/

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago

That's not enough growth. It's never enough. It literally can't ever be enough.

So they raise prices and pay for astroturfed articles blaming everything but the executives charged with infinite growth forever.

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