Yes, but pirated software is also an incredibly simple attack vector.
Yes, but pirated software is also an incredibly simple attack vector.
It’ll drop the price, so there’s that at least.
It’s really not a generational thing. Every generation has their nerds and they always are just a tiny minority.
The late Gen X/early millennials may have been an outlier because they were forced to learn to get anything working but also from those years most don’t care about tech.
In the long term it works quite a bit better as a valuation tool. Bubbles tend to not last very long.
Netflix comes around, other streaming services
The (admittedly inevitable) appearance of other streaming services was shit already since with it came exclusive content.
Also, they just translate estimated number of downloads to potentially sold tickets 1:1 (they always have). As if a pirate would actually watch all that shit if they had to pay for it. Many probably even don’t after download (like Steam games on sale).
I swear it’s always Adblock Plus in memes about ad-blocking. Who makes these memes?