• trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 months ago

    How these companies don’t realize these incompetent decisions push formerly paying customers into piracy is actually beyond me.

    Do every c-level employee in these companies have brain damage?

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      10 months ago

      They don’t care about losing customers to piracy just like fast-food restaurants don’t care about losing people to grocery stores.

      They’ve realized it’s more profitable to take further advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of customers.

      If you can charge 1 customer twice the price of what you could charge 2, then you make more money because you require less overhead.

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        10 months ago

        I definitely agree with you but I’m not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.

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      10 months ago

      Because their best interest is to appease shareholders and not excellent service. The problem which will emerge in 5 years time is a problem for the next CEO.