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Another reason why people across the globe will pirate instead of buying an expensive and limited subscription.

Edit: Changed to a non-paywalled article and added more to the title.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

It most certainly feels like this was the thought process for this kinda thing:

We aren't making enough money from our streaming service in Australia and New Zealand because they are buying DVDs/Blu-Ray so they can watch whenever they want.

How do we make more money, then?

Pretend that less people are interested in physical media and disregard literally everyone else who says otherwise!