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'Canada Is a Video Piracy Hotspot While Brazil Sees Piracy in Decline' (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 9 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah cause our streaming platforms are shit due to how our licensing works and greedy companies being stupid. If I want to watch Rick and Morty I have to sign up for Stack tv which costs over 20 bucks a month while being LOADED with forced ads during broadcasts and has such a tiny library there's only one or two other shows I would even watch on the service.

Piracy is a service issue. I gladly pay for the few streaming services in my country that aren't a steaming dumpster fire.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://globalnews.ca/news/9470991/netflix-account-sharing-passwords-canada/

This could be why...

Or it could be the myriad of streaming services that don't have half of what you want to watch or aren't available in Canada to begin with.

I guess part of what we pay Ro/Be/lus out the nose for is so they can ignore copyright infringement claims on our behalf.

E: Maybe it was Chrystia Freeland's comment:

"I personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month, and last Sunday I said to the kids, 'You're older now. You don't watch Disney anymore. Let's cut that Disney Plus subscription,"' Freeland told Global News in an interview that aired on Nov. 6.

Maybe Global News didn't quite catch her saying "and pirate the Disney shows instead" at the end.