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Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

disagree. legally a government can forcefully take down a community but it's far more difficult to police a physical ring of pirates.

pirating in the late 90s early 2000s was mostly done through physical interaction. you could download content from places like Napster, limewire, etc, but the volume of which content spread the fastest was at LAN parties.

I filled up a brand new 250gb drive after one LAN party in 2002. I still have all that content 23 years later.

point is, if we could harness the power of a "trust" content sharing would run rampant.

[–] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So we should do LAN parties again then!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

completely agree.