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Research firm blames outdated DRM tech, Facebook ads, Amazon hardware, and more.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Interesting how they continue to blame the pirates, devices, DRM, and everything else they can think of, but never the fact that content is getting spread across more and more services and prices keep going up.

Their greed in chasing profits is fuelling the very problem they’re trying to fight.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

tens of thousands of pirate viewers

The magnitude this is off by is pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

in the same way a kitchen knife enables people to stab people…
i suppose knife makers should have someone following you around at all times to make sure you use the knife properly.

[–] anguo 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, Stremio is in the Google Play store

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Yes. Yes they do.