Most pirates doesn’t use the product if pirated version isn’t avaliable, they aren’t a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren’t paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy
But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.
Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn’t be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000’s
Most pirates doesn’t use the product if pirated version isn’t avaliable, they aren’t a costumer, blocking piracy is actually a bad marketing decision, people can build hype even if they aren’t paying. No significant revenue is actually lost for piracy
Piracy also kept the music industry afloat before Spotify and whatever
It’s free advertising and costs nothing to the artist
And we all saw how grateful 🙏 the music industry was to Napster and the like
But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.
TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.
Ironically Napster now pays the most royalties to artists per stream
They were sore about mixtapes and even blocked the release of DAT in the United States.
Intellectual Property is an illness.
Blame Lars Ulrich for that
Historical examples: Windows and Photoshop, especially in countries outside G7. XP was probably the most pirated version of Windows and I wouldn’t be surprised if Photoshop was also the number 1 most pirated program during the mid-late 2000’s