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Well, at the end of the day, no matter what, pirating is stealing. It's not the worst form but it is stealing nonetheless.
But I'm not judging, just providing some insight about illegal streams. By streaming on a "kodi box" that hasn't been set up by yourself, you are less risking troubles with the law and more with malwares and dodgy stuff going on in your network. Those things are shady so there is a risk of shady things going on. Just a warning.
My personal view on multimedia entertainment piracy is that the only way to mitigate it is to make entertainment available easily and cheaply and not put barriers all the time.
I am confident that piracy has dropped drastically ever since services like Netflix have come out. But then in countries like Indonesia where it's so easy to buy a bootleg movie DVD for $1, they go and block Netflix so that they can push their competing products, hidden behind some false excuses about censorship. In the end, all we get is a watered down, lame idea of online streaming.
Video games are another example. Steam is the largest online marketplace to buy digital copies of games. In Indonesia, it works great. The full catalog is available, it's easy to pay, prices are cheaper than almost anywhere in the world, and the download speed is extremely good. That's how it's supposed to be done. Why bother downloading a pirated game, that may or may not work, may or may not have viruses when you can get the real deal, legally, reasonably cheaply and with download speeds you could only dream of achieving on bitorrent.
But the flip-side to this is Microsoft. I bought an Xbox One for my son and I've had nothing but problems with trying to buy games online. Following their own instructions, I locked myself out from being able to purchase anything because they make it so complicated with region locks and what not. Hell, even one Microsoft game I was interested in was only sold on the Microsoft store and not on Steam and surprise surprise, it cannot be bought from the Microsoft Indonesia store. No wonder that game flopped the way it did all because of greed, walled gardens and misjudgment. Is it a surprise then that people will go to the closest bootleg DVD store and buy a pirated copy for $5 instead?
But I'm not judging, just providing some insight about illegal streams. By streaming on a "kodi box" that hasn't been set up by yourself, you are less risking troubles with the law and more with malwares and dodgy stuff going on in your network. Those things are shady so there is a risk of shady things going on. Just a warning.
My personal view on multimedia entertainment piracy is that the only way to mitigate it is to make entertainment available easily and cheaply and not put barriers all the time.
I am confident that piracy has dropped drastically ever since services like Netflix have come out. But then in countries like Indonesia where it's so easy to buy a bootleg movie DVD for $1, they go and block Netflix so that they can push their competing products, hidden behind some false excuses about censorship. In the end, all we get is a watered down, lame idea of online streaming.
Video games are another example. Steam is the largest online marketplace to buy digital copies of games. In Indonesia, it works great. The full catalog is available, it's easy to pay, prices are cheaper than almost anywhere in the world, and the download speed is extremely good. That's how it's supposed to be done. Why bother downloading a pirated game, that may or may not work, may or may not have viruses when you can get the real deal, legally, reasonably cheaply and with download speeds you could only dream of achieving on bitorrent.
But the flip-side to this is Microsoft. I bought an Xbox One for my son and I've had nothing but problems with trying to buy games online. Following their own instructions, I locked myself out from being able to purchase anything because they make it so complicated with region locks and what not. Hell, even one Microsoft game I was interested in was only sold on the Microsoft store and not on Steam and surprise surprise, it cannot be bought from the Microsoft Indonesia store. No wonder that game flopped the way it did all because of greed, walled gardens and misjudgment. Is it a surprise then that people will go to the closest bootleg DVD store and buy a pirated copy for $5 instead?
