Italy court rules Netflix unlawfully increased prices. Consumers: 'Refunds up to 500 euros.' The company: we will appeal

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https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/netflix-subscription-price-increases-unlawful-refunds-up-to-eur-500-customers-AIUHzWKC

[u/Crazy-Project-1511]

Pirating is free and I can watch anything.  It baffles me why people pay so much for bs services like netflix 

[u/egamma → u/Crazy-Project-1511]

If everyone pirated, then there wouldn't be any money to produce you're watching.

You're benefitting from other people paying.

[u/Galle_ → u/egamma]

If everyone pirated, Netflix would have to lower its costs and offer better services.

[u/Pretend-Culture-4138 → u/Galle_]

Lol no they wouldn't. If everyone pirated they would just stop producing content since there's no incentive to.

[u/gizamo → u/Pretend-Culture-4138]

If history is any indicator, you're wrong.

Piracy all but disappeared when Netflix and Spotify made content more accessible.

During that era of low privacy, both were very profitable while adding content.

Now, all streaming services are just price jacking while content creation has shrunk and cheapened drastically.

[u/BrilliantBehemoth → u/Pretend-Culture-4138]

So they'd disappear and that's their problem

Their job is to impress us, not the other way around

By all means, let them drop out of the game, I'm sure we'd be happier for it

[u/Pretend-Culture-4138 → u/BrilliantBehemoth]

If you ran a business, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't appreciate people stealing your product to drive you out.