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I like how the article skims over the real reasons for the increase in piracy: fracturization of services means more expense for less of the content that I want, constantly raising prices (Hulu alone is $18 a month now) trying to force me onto ad supported plans, and there’s still ads all over everything anyway.
And then they follow that up with the implied threat that prices will continue to go up unless all those nasty pirates pay their fair share. As if it’s not just greed.
If not, we can expect to see legal channels raising their prices again to cover the losses caused by piracy.
And with the last paragraph the whole article loses its legitimacy as propaganda. I mean I should have expected as much considering the source, but I still wanted to see how well researched it was.
No, this is a case where people are rebelling against a broken system, that didn’t need to be broken in it’s mostly recovered state.
No, the general paying public shouldn’t shame pirates for their actions, they should shame the companies for their actions that have driven them to this. Companies aren’t your friends, they don’t care about you, they just want your money.
