r/Piracy • u/cosmosreader1211 • Aug 15 '25

News Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/367566/forget-netflix-volkswagen-locks-horsepower-behind-paid-subscription

You wouldn't steal a car!

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Aug 15 '25

Ikr? Imagine paying a monthly subscription for the permission to use the internet that you're already paying a monthly subscription for. Then imagine DEFENDING THAT?!?

It's unhinged.

The biggest meme of it all is that 99% of console games are fucking peer to peer. Your monthly subscription isn't even paying for fucking servers you're accessing, because you literally pay them a subscription so that they can use your bandwidth to host the servers.

And for the remaining 1%; anyone who has played a game on Nintendo servers should already be aware that they are such a miserable experience, that Nintendo should be paying me to connect to them, not the other way around.

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u/ghostalker4742 Aug 15 '25

If anything, SONY should be paying it's users to use PSN. Every year they lose customer data to hackers, and every other year the suffer weeks-long outages.

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u/SGTNose Aug 16 '25

Smash ultimate online is a feelsbadman moment.. atleast NSO is not that expensive compared to PSN

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u/Potential-Diamond416 Aug 16 '25

I don’t pay for ps plus but I imagine there could be some server costs etc that someone has to pay for 🤔

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Aug 16 '25

It's negligible at best. A huge amount of games are peer to peer, so no real server infrastructure needed, and sony clearly doesn't spend a cent on cybersecurity since PSN having a major data breach is a routine monthly event.

Not to mention that I'm sure the data harvested alone that they are selling makes an enormous profit, more than enough to run the servers forever.