Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly * TorrentFreak
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Netflix believes that it's difficult to compete against the free entertainment piracy offers. Not only that, it's growing rapidly too.

I think Jeff Gerstmann once said “you ha e to be able to compete with free” to combat piracy. Tech companies used to understand this…

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it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it

It’s really not free. Piracy is still a bit of a chore. It’s just less of a chore than juggling a dozen streaming services, shitty and inconsistent apps and playing the whole “what major corporation’s subscription service has the rights for this show?” game.

They ought to try sucking less.

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