My favorite platform is iTunes, because it lets you download the files for offline viewing, and removing the DRM is trivially simple.

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    1 year ago

    Well, an EU study a few years back found that online piracy has little affect on actual legal sales, except for newly released movies which took like a 4.4% knock on their box-office sales.

    Games apparently see an increase in sales, with 100 illegal downloads spurring 24 additional legal transactions than would have otherwise occurred.

    Here’s a link to the study itself for anyone interested in getting into the weeds.

    That said, I support studios/musicians/devs that I care about by buying their stuff.

    I refuse to subscribe to the 10+ mainstream streaming services, though. I’m voting with my money, and the current streaming landscape is just as anti-consumer as cable TV was before it.

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      1 year ago

      The games stat is because they stopped making demos, so people pirate the game to see if it’s worth spending money on