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.

  • DannyBoy
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    4 hours ago

    It saves a lot of money for each subscription service you can skip.

    I only had to buy a VPN and a cheap mini PC as a server. And then a 1tb SSD. Then I needed to buy another 2tb. And then I had to run Ethernet upstairs for it since the WiFi card couldn’t keep up. Then I had to upgrade the router to support the new gigabit cabling…

    Eh, well, at least I get to keep something out of it.

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      Yeah, I’m going for a bit more storage, currently sitting at 108TB. The price of my home server could pay for around 75 years of Netflix.

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          3 hours ago

          Selection is probably better though

          You mean at Netflix? Maybe, but only temporarily. If I’m missing a piece of media I want I’ll simply download it and add it to my server. And contrary to Netflix once it’s on my server it’ll stay there.