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Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Steam has never tried to battle piracy head on, yet it succeeds. Please take note, Netflix, it is your card to lose.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

This will only remain as long as Valve's original leadership (and Lord Gaben) stays in place. Once the MBAs start taking over it will go to shit fast.

Ironic that I'm saying this, since I am an MBA myself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.

Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.

While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren't things they really had control over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Netflix is full of reptiles who don't care to offer a better service. All they want is enough market share to strongarm consumers into giving them more money.