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Netflix is a great example. Price was fine and watching streams was so easy that people forgot torrents. Now, that they increase prices, include ads and prevent password sharing, people remember torrents again.


Don't forget the fragmentation of the streaming market, as every content owner spins up their own streaming service and pulls their content from Netflix.


In my opinion, fragmentation is annoying but not anti-competitive nor anti-consumer. I'm sure Netflix wants to give 3rd parties worse and worse deals so they can prioritize their original content.


Netflix is a terrible example, because they grew off the back of finding value in under-valued content (the back catalogue content of big studios, streaming rights of newer content). Now that the value has been identified, they have to give up the rights to the newly-valued content and/or raise prices.


Netflix's goal is to maximize profit (number of paying customers x price/customer), not to eliminate piracy.


Nowhere they claimed netflix tried ? They just stated the effect it had.

Much like Steam caused reduction of video games piracy. Piracy is a service problem


These two things are not mutually exclusive.


Another example is Spotify and Apple Music. Not too sure on the stats but I’d imagine there’s been a significant more decrease in music piracy compared to movies and tv shows.




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