The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    981·
    1 year ago

    I believe it was Gabe Newell who said the best way to avoid piracy is by making legitimate purchasing easier and/or better.

    In the early history of streaming services, you could get access to a lot of content in a straightforward way for not much money. People started doing that instead of pirating. The corporations got greedy, they made the services worse and increased the price to the point that piracy is preferable again.

    And I don’t have the least amount of sympathy. Yarr matey.

    • Thoas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      With the advent of self hosted streaming services and the arr services the option is even easier now. If 1 in 20 ppl are motivated/tech savvy that’s 20 streaming products not being paid for.

      • Littleborat@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        What would be the technology behind my own streaming platform?

        So far I do it very old school with data on my Nas and a software that catalogs and plays over Lan only.

        • DarthVader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Look into the arr suite of apps, radarr + sonarr + prowlarr to manage your library and jellyfin/PleX to play it. Get overseer for request management. You can set it up for remote access from anywhere, have people make requests on overseer and have the data available a few mins later. It’s amazing when it’s set up.

        • Thoas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Plex is the most worked on solution out there, runs on Windows, Linux and Linux headless. For the automation of stuff then looking at suff like radarr and sonar alovk with tracktarr and jackett foe the trackers, along with a torrent client. There is also jellyfin as a media client, it’s more open, but getting users onto it could be more problematic as it isn’t as straight fwd from what I hear, haven’t used it myself though.