[ngcc_hk]

P2P solves it. Just not the payment side. Only if one can pay.

I do not even mind it is drm as long as I can get a good quality one in 10 minutes. Even if I contribute bandwidth (as long as controller and during my download) and paid.

There is always someone not paid. But it is those who can and willingly do which oddly leave out. Like Mp3 in 1990s.

[TheOtherHobbes]

P2P could have totally transformed the industry if it had worked out a way to pay creators - especially niche creators and beginners.

It would have owned discovery, which would have badly damaged the big studios. And Netflix would probably have never happened.

It would have been a similar story in music.

But P2P was always about people who think a file is a file is a file, and creation costs are an externality, which can be ignored as irrelevant.

So now we have TPB limping along, and new creators are mostly owned by YT - which is legendary for draconian application of copyright in the favour of fellow corporates.