We are no longer (so) pirates.

[whoololon]

As many of you may have read in the news; they say we are around 6% less pirates than two years ago.

Honestly; I think the figure is much higher, that is, we are even less pirates. But since official media and statistics are not going to know less than a scoundrel, I wonder: Have we decided to lower the sails, or has something happened so that we don't have to board other people's properties?

In my opinion (note that I'm not going to do much work, I'm going by ear), something has to do with the fact that you can already buy a song without having to pay for the rest of the album, that games have had an epic drop in price (and in quality, but I'll leave that for another day), that my detested "Pay-per-View" on pay TV has come to stay with the blessing of society... in short, that the audiovisual industry here in this country (which is not called a country, it's called Spain) has finally realized that it had to change and adapt to the times.

That said, all this generates another question for me: how much has to go down for them to remove the digital fee?... ah, right. That's true.

Well, what do you think?

[cobito]

I think a couple of things have happened in Spain and both have happened more or less simultaneously, causing piracy to decline. From my perspective, I have been downloading things since almost the first days I had Internet. I used Edonkey2000 back in 2001 and with it I downloaded things like Windows XP or GTA 3 with a 56kbps connection, when I could only use the connection at night to keep the line free during the day. That is to say, if it was going very fast, a CD would take a week to download. At that time I did it for a reason: I didn't have a cent. And the reason was significant because downloading anything meant an amount of time and effort that today seem completely ridiculous to us.

Later I had an ADSL connection of 256kbps and that completely changed things as availability and speed made everything faster. Speed doublings arrived and the moment came when downloading things was no longer just an economic issue, but of convenience. I am sure that of my generation (5 years more, 5 years less), we have been the most pirated of all and I am almost sure that for the same reasons: economic ones.

Then comes the moment of entering the labor market and there are already incomes, but we have become accustomed to free things and as it is so comfortable, we continue to pirate. Here is the big problem of those who want to sell content: we have become accustomed to not paying. And at that moment when we want everything easy and we want everything for free, platforms like Netflix that offer an acceptable service at a reasonable price begin to popularize. And Steam bundles, offers and free games appear. And in the end it turns out that with less than 3 figures a year you have quality games that you are not able to exhaust. At that moment I believe that the turning point occurs in which we get used to paying and once the habit comes, we are already in. Now it's lazy to pirate because it means searching in several places, selecting the download that you consider the best and on top of that having to trust that what you download is really what is announced in the name of the file. It does not mean that it has stopped being done; it's just that it's done less.

[Yorus]

For me the main changes are in the app stores, especially game with Steam at the forefront, and online music and video services.

In my personal case I can say that I no longer pirate software, since I have access to Windows licenses and anything else or I pay for it (games) or I use free versions or at least free ones.

As for music and video, well, I have periods, although I have some things through Movistar (the most basic plan that exists) or Amazon Prime, and some months Spotify for music. Anyway, I am not entirely innocent in this. It is true that I am making a small collection of essential movies on Blu-ray and I want to do the same with music CDs, however "old-fashioned" that may be.