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KOReader: a free electronic-book reader for e-ink devices

KOReader: a free electronic-book reader for e-ink devices

Posted Apr 30, 2022 15:54 UTC (Sat) by mrugiero (guest, #153040)
In reply to: KOReader: a free electronic-book reader for e-ink devices by mrugiero
Parent article: KOReader: a free electronic-book reader for e-ink devices

> Money is extremely subjective and I really, really doubt the hundreds of millions of people sharing a streaming password in the USA can actually not pay for their own subscription.

And FWIW this is precisely one of the problem community projects suffer from as well. People choose not to donate not because they can't or because they find no use for the software, but because they can get away with it.

But at least in my country, where you have 40% of poverty and bittorrent has been the go-to place to get movies and shows for years, it's easy to see it isn't because of DRM that most of those who can pay the fee use Netflix, but because of the convenience and feed it provides. DRM is simply irrelevant, you can find torrents for everything. Even the non-tech-savvy have and use pirated options here, as they use strem.io. When they pick Netflix over that, it's for the recommendations and the streaming quality (subs are complicated in strem.io, you may have buffering issues, etc).


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KOReader: a free electronic-book reader for e-ink devices

Posted May 3, 2022 17:40 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> where you have 40% of poverty and bittorrent has been the go-to place to get movies and shows for years [... ] it's easy to see it isn't because of DRM that most of those who can pay the fee use Netflix, but because of the convenience and feed it provides

The entire purpose of DRM is to make _inconvenient_ to share content safely between friends. So yes even in your country it helps a bit.


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