A new survey from Norway reveals that 50% of young people under 30 believe that pirating content is an acceptable way to save money. The survey, conducted by Ipsos, highlights that the high cost of streaming services is a key driver behind this attitude. Links between piracy and organized crime or malware, appear to be of less concern.

29 points

well, before that and for generations, banks printing money was an acceptable way of governments to make rich people richer and all others poorer, so i can fully accept that stealing was learned from govs and the richies there. change how “the successfull” accomplish their successes and you can teach the kids how to live without stealing, keep abuse by gov and richies as is and all the theft is done exactly as ordered by govs and richies, no matter the age.

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15 points

Those are rookie numbers, you’ve got to pump those up.

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Slavic syndrome?

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170 points

Well, since I don’t own what I buy, I don’t see how pirating is anything other than getting something from a cheaper distributor.

After all, how can I steal something that can’t be owned?

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7 points

Yeah, I’m just watching/playing the content, I’m fine doing that without the license, which is the paid part anyway, right?

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31 points

You see, streaming is a service and you choosing to not use their service is… uhmm… theft!

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4 points

hahaha such entitlement from them, right?

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10 points

As a norwegian who is back to pirating after a break of around 10-12 years, it is not primarily a cost issue. Hell with hardware investments it is costing me more tho that includes stuff for gaming (roms, i currently dont pirate pc games).

What it is is a service issue. Self curated collection of movies and shows beats the fragmented shit that is current streaming platforms not to mention the flood of utter garbage on tgese platforms you have to sift thru to find somethinf worth watching. Not to mention the privacy aspects and in general the “ownership” model (ie licensing without really knowing the terms).

Fuck that shit and im never getting fooled again.

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