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.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    There are a few what I’ll term magnet shows on each streaming service. They want you to pay for the service for the magnet shows and then stick around and watch other half-baked filler garbage or a seasons of a show they cancelled before giving them any hope of finishing their story arc.

    Most streaming networks have abundant garbage content I’d never want to watch, knockoffs of other shows, and global content that’s often of soap opera quality with subtitles.

    They also (on purpose) often offer no way to filter to the things you want to see other than search, and search is often misleading or terrible too.

    It’s basically a race to the bottom just like Amazon. Junk programs created for pennies pretending to match your results.

    The whole thing is a crap fest that’s quickly becoming worse than the cable network structure it replaced.

    No, thank you.

    • Brutticus@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you go through the front page, there is usually only 100 shows the platform is pushing, ad nauseam. Like the algorithm is maybe some shows it thinks youll like, or shows they want to astroturf. I would really like a way to go into the dregs, the shit, the stuff netflix thinks is at the bottom of my metrics. Granted, piracy doesn’t do this either (lol how would that even work? I put everything on that server myself) but I would have considered keeping my subscription if they did.