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Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.

Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/streaming-service-costs-drive-new-era-of-hollywood-piracy?srnd=premium

Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.

Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains

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quirzle

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Convenience, I'd imagine. Not everybody wants to deal with ads or self-hosting.

I also know someone that subs to a pirate streaming site that they use for learning English. It has a solid library but also has dual subtitles on everything and categories based on vocabulary difficulty and accents. It's cheaper than a single legit subscription, but has way more value (both the language stuff and the massive pirated library).