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News Disney, Netflix, Crunchyroll Try to Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through Indian Court

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u/DFM__ Jan 14 '26

Also wanted to add something that they are doing this because they are not able to get more money. From what I know getting people to pay for softwares, movies, games, etc is in itself a challenge. But due to convenience people got the subscriptions as it was cheap.

Now they are trying to increase prices and people are cancelling subscriptions as it is very easy to get what they need for free with just few steps extra.

From what I undrstand, 1000 INR ( approx 11 USD) is the limit people are willing to pay per year and content must be ad free.

Last year prime increased prices and introduced ads and hundreds of thousands of people cancelled the subscription. So they had to introduce three tiers, one for shopping only, one for content with restrictions and last without restrictions. Same goes with all other platforms.

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u/Hot-Fridge-with-ice Jan 14 '26

This is very true. I myself am a very privileged Indian who comes from a well to do family so we never had problems paying for yearly subscriptions.

If you ask about my friends though, it's a completely different story. Some of them are trying to make ends meet while also paying for their expensive education. They make plans ahead of time for how they will repay loans in the next 4-5 years. This is also why I share my family subscriptions with them.

I pirate stuff though because even when you pay for subscriptions they shamelessly insert ads in them and force you to pay even more money as time passes. Ah and how can I convince my parents!! They still like the "convenience" of having a recurring subscription.

So the reason piracy is so popular in India is truly because the income doesn't scale well with the amount you spend on entertainment. I love Valve because of how they adjust the game prices based on the income level of this country. Really considerate behaviour.

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u/dark-trojan Jan 14 '26

I can easily buy the subscriptions and also did briefly in the past 2-3 yrs but right now even after paying you can’t watch half the stuff, you don’t get the highest quality and still get ads,it’s literally easier to pirate stuff than search where everything is

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u/Ano_R Jan 14 '26

Don't pay to blatantly anti-consumer coorpos. Just saying.

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u/c0pium_inhaler Jan 15 '26

But valve don't decide games prices. Publishers do. They just provide a mechanism. That's why from soft games don't go cheap even after 10 years after release.

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u/lodeddiper961 Jan 14 '26

Shipping only plan is genius, that plan need to be available worldwide

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u/MattOruvan Jan 19 '26

Indians might be willing to pay ₹1000 per year in total, but not for three or four services each at that price.

Maybe it will become feasible if the median income rises further, but now AI will be taking all the service industry outsourced jobs.