The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.
Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more
Starting a taxi company by ignoring frauding all the regulation related to taxi operation, ( Uber)
TBF people also enjoyed parts of it that aren’t regulation related, such as upfront cost calculation. Scamming customers is harder and even in those events, it’s possible to get refunds.
Getting people to pay for digital media in the era of mass piracy (Spotify, Deezer, Netflix)
Starting a taxi company by
ignoringfrauding all the regulation related to taxi operation, ( Uber)Tons of pseudo science like energy therapy which are not much different from straight up witchcraft.
A thought also for real estate developer who buy land in high-flood-risk area, and still manage to sell the houses, these ones also should be in jail
The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.
Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more
TBF people also enjoyed parts of it that aren’t regulation related, such as upfront cost calculation. Scamming customers is harder and even in those events, it’s possible to get refunds.
Ah yeah, lots of pseudo-medicine falls into it.
Of course water has memory.
Of couse physically abusing your kid is healthy for it.
Of course this quartz will help you.
And then you actually strike gold with this shit and years later a well-known actress is selling candles that smell like her minge. Unbelievable.
Don’t knock witchcraft like that. I have more faith in our witches than those pedalling energy-based solutions.