> “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,” explained Newell during his time on stage at the Washington Technology Industry Association's (WTIA) Tech NW conference. “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
@clacke Sounds good, certainly the right direction. But keep in mind that price *always* is part of the equation.
No point in having a perfect service which is too expensive for customers.
Especially important to keep in mind how much of your customers income your service gobbles up. You might think customers don’t do the math, and you may be right, for a while, but you are competing for a share of that income not only with direct competitors, but with things like food and shelter.
@ketchup71 You are of course correct.
I posted it mostly as a lead into libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2… 
@clacke Failed to watch the link. Now I did, and… damn, now I want to watch that King Kong vs Godzilla movie! 
Thanks for the link!
@clacke I feel a bit vindicated in my decision to collect every movie I ever want to see on my own server. With all streaming services increasing prices substantially, and dropping anything interesting.
(Just got an announce from Amazon, they will serve ads in Prime Video now, unless I pony up some bags of gold. This allows them to buy more stuff I don’t want to see, like sports. Eff‘ em.)
Then again: it’s Amazon. What did I expect? A success story like Comixology? 
@clacke I realize this is all over the place.
But that’s the problem here, isn’t it. It’s all over the place. No knight in shining armor, anywhere.
Well. Back to fiddling with my media server.