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Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the never-ending-quest dept.

An anonymous user writes: A broad and detailed report from piracy tracking outfit MUSO shows that visits to pirate sites went up last year. The company recorded more than 300 billion visits in 2017, which suggests that "piracy is more popular than ever." TV remained the most popular category and most pirates prefer streaming over torrents or direct downloading.

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  1. Re:Oh RLY? by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Informative

    > We have Netflix and a dozen other services without ads served for less than 10 bucks a month? I don't get it

    Streaming (quality) doesn't compare to BluRay (quality).

    > And for software, we have TONS of open source equivalents.

    I always look for and use an OSS version first and then fall back to a commercial version only if the OSS versions doesn't do what I need but let's be realistic. There just aren't valid OSS replacements for everything (yet.)

    * Gimp is still crap compared to Photoshop. And yes, I use both -- both professionally and personally.

    * I don't see any alternative to Keyscape's 77 GB VST piano library that sells for $399.

    That said, overall, yes Open Source Software is getting there. I certainly find Inkscape a helluva lot easier to use Adobe Illustrator.

    And thankfully there are lists that make it much easier to find an OSS replacement.

    http://www.damicon.com/resourc...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...