Too many streaming services will turn people to piracy, survey shows

Streaming subscriptions such as Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, and Hulu have now become a common avenue for watching movies, documentaries, and TV shows. While the increasing number of streaming services may seem like a positive development, a new survey reveals a problematic situation arising as a result of too many streaming services: a potential for increased piracy.

The latest survey conducted by the broadband price comparison website Broadband Genie revealed that content diversified over a large number of content streaming services can ultimately lead to more piracy.

Generally speaking, for a long time now, people have become used to finding all the movies and TV shows in once place. Or two. But with the current situation where there’s a mushroom growth of streaming subscriptions, audiences are slowly being forced to spend more and buy multiple subscriptions, which may very well be the reason pushing them to resort to privacy, as pointed out by the research by Broadband Genie.

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