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.

  • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    106·
    1 year ago

    I have subscriptions (and shared subscriptions) to… seven services that I can think of in 20 seconds.

    Yet, time and time again, I try to figure out if what I want to watch is covered by one of them (not trivial to figure out), and end up falling back on piracy probably around 50% of the time.

    Now that every fucking content owner has its own subscription plan, it makes subscriptions pointless because it’s spread so damn thin.

      • MashedTech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        Doesn’t always work. I’m not in the US. So shows that it says are on a service, aren’t in my country, or if it’s on a service, it doesn’t know because it’s on that service in my country and not the us. For me, Justwatch.com, has been more miss than hit. Sometimes, asking google works, but some services that are available in my country won’t integrate with Google in my country, but if use a VPN for the us on my Android TV it loads all the US features and the integration starts working and everything is correct. So yeah, unless you’re in the US, the experience of figuring out where it is what you want to watch is more miss than hit.

        • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Justwatch has localised results for me in Australia. If your browser is anonymized it may default to US listings. You can change it in the URL path using your country code, e.g. instead of justwatch.com/us/ I go to justwatch.com/au/ and it’s been totally accurate

        • Bebo@literature.cafeEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Oh yes this is so true. I have stopped trying to research where each is that I want to watch; if it’s not on netflix or prime video I just download it.

    • danque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Cancel all those subs man. They are eating your money without return. It’s better to download the specific show you want to watch.