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?

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?

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?

    If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah, piracy is the last bastion of privately controlled media files

      Doesn’t seem like it’s going away though

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      7 hours ago

      Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released

      • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Aye but where be it the Captain’s are getting these Webrips be the question. Thar answer be the streaming services me mate’ee. It be their content pirates be plunderin’.