• blahsay@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Fun fact: Piracy is still supporting the film industry. We see movies, talk about it, free publicy, reviews etc.

    Apparently in the industry they consider the value of a pirated movie about 1/4 that of a paid one.

    Some programs etc would pretty much die without piracy like the Adobe suite

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      9 months ago

      When the biggest German piracy streaming page was shut down more than a decade ago, rumors have it that the film industry suffered enormously

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      9 months ago

      Can confirm, work in the industry - we don’t care. The only reason there’s anti-piracy stuff out there is because the FBI pressured studios in the 90s to help stop brown people from bootlegging VHSs then later DVDs.