Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’, despite blocking thousands of illegal streaming sites, has failed boost viewership for legal services like DAZN.
But now they have a nice censor infrastructure in Place. Luckily they don’t have some right-wing nutjobs in the Government who could abuse that power in the future
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For the yearly cost of a single streaming service I could buy more DVDs than I could ever watch.
Did you know you can borrow DVDs from the library … for free.
I would never waste another cent on streaming, the value proposition got flushed down the toilet when every single studio got into the game.
Where are you finding DVDs in 2025?
Thrift stores for less than a dollar each usually in 10 for $5 type deals. multi disc sets are your friend and sometimes they don’t differentiate between DVD and blue ray either, I’ve got quite a few blu rays this way.
DVDs are where VHS was about a decade ago, get what you can while it’s cheap. I even got a pile for free when a pawn shop was dumping stock to get out of the market.
Also DVDs are still being pressed because there’s no licensing fee on the format so it’s still profitable to make new ones.
Very True at my thrift store i work at all media; books, cd, dvd, blue-ray are all 50¢, unless priced (Very Rare)
What??? People who are fed up with the megacorpos shittin on everyone, aren’t willing to pay for the services of those megacorpos when the free/torrent sources are removed? I am shocked!
And now we know exactly why this was done in the first place. Also, thanks for more evidence that people who pirate media probably wouldn’t pay for it anyway.
Lobby and demand Italian authorities crack down on the piracy because “were losing money!” Only to figure out there still losing money. I could have saved them a lot of time and money by advising them of this.
No shit
