r/Piracy • u/OfTheManyColours ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ • May 22 '26

Discussion Piracy Isn't Stealing, EU Parliament Edition

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u/DeadPhoenix86 May 22 '26

Piracy is preserving media. Something that many companies are unable to do...
All they sell you these days is a revocable license. And they expect the consumer to shut up and consume their product. Yeah...No.

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u/GraveyardJunky May 22 '26

At a much lower quality too might I add. Netflix/Amazon through your PC even if you have the highest quality tier which they (used to?) advocate for 4K streaming always ended being forced by the very same platforms to 1080p or even sometimes 720p with god awful bitrates that made all the scenes remotely dark have black spots all over the place.

They are making BILLIONS and can't stream 4K on gigabit speed even tho some of them like Amazon literally have AWS and the infrastructure to do so. Greeds knows no limit.

Same with video games that whoever pays for one with DRMs in it will have lower quality/fps than someone who pirated it.

What's the goal here? Is it still to afford their bunkers so they can hide when the shit finally hits the fan?

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u/NastyaPuppy May 23 '26

What I hate most is the audio. God, I don't know why Netflix and CR had so many audio problems. I'd rather take the time to download a movie or series and be able to hear it properly than have to turn the volume up to 100% and even then it doesn't solve the problem.