It’s a blow why exactly? They were losing nothing before and they are losing nothing now. Aside from the ability to extract money from people…
the ability to extract money from people
Kind of the point of releasing a product…
People who would likely not otherwise have paid, so no net change worth discussing.
You’re not wrong, and I’m not arguing in favor of them doxxing “pirates”. However, pretending like there’s no possible blow is not the right way to fight against their abuse. I don’t know what the answer is, though, so…
I’m just saying the percentage of those who may have been willing to pay is small enough to be irrelevant in the for-profit release perspective.
Netflix (when it first started streaming) and Steam (when sales included good older stuff for wildly cheap) showed that piracy is more of a service problem than anything else. A recent article called out the content problems (partial content, a few seasons behind a separate paywall, ads in the middle of playback, etc) a are directly related to an increase in piracy.
So my opinions on copyright aside - a clear model to a happy consumer is an affordable price without all the enshittification going on. People also dont like “buying” content that later disappears because of licensing changes.
So I’d put it squarely in the “their own damn fault” territory, and I’m glad when judges say “no” to them. I’ll take whatever positives I can get.
100% correct. I agree with everything you wrote. I will only add: if buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.
Edit: fixed mistype
