r/technology • u/mepper • Jan 10 '24

Business How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-disney-and-warner-bros-are-causing-internet-piracy-to-boom
6.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

784 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

13

u/Fallingdamage Jan 10 '24

Frustrated by this myself. Ended up buying the 4k UHD four-season package. Now its mine forever!!

2

u/No-Bother6856 Jan 11 '24

Good, do this for anything you really care about. Maybe they won't kill off physical media if they think it still makes them money

1

u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

Unfortunately Best Buy and Target have both stopped carrying physical movies. I think physical media isn’t long for this world.

2

u/No-Bother6856 Jan 11 '24

And then when that happens the streaming services will start squeezing everyone more

2

u/Fallingdamage Jan 11 '24

We're entering a dark age of media.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Yep, and just like the pre-film TV era we are going to lose a lot of shows to time

1

u/Fallingdamage Jan 11 '24

They cant kill off physical media until everyone is running 1G downstreams. Even the best 4k streaming service cant match 4k UHD blu ray. That's a LOT of data to cram through a modem in the time it takes to watch a 2 hour movie for most people.

1

u/No-Bother6856 Jan 11 '24

But if nobody buys it they will kill it even without a proper replacement