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   Aram Sinnreich (aram@aoir.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 05:38:47 JST Aram Sinnreich

   I published empirical research back in the year 2000 showing that if you give consumers a safe, easy way to access a giant library of content without ads, they'll happily pay a fair market price.

   The streaming successes of 2013-2020 proved this to be true.

   Now, siloization, surveillance, advertising, price-gouging, and shitty algorithms are going to send everyone back to "piracy."

   https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 05:40:49 JST pettter

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     @aram Hm, I know that the TPB folks reached out to some media companies/orgs in order to provide tracker data and got heavily rebuffed. I wonder if they knew about this research? Wouldn't surprise me if they did, or at least some folks at the Bureau