[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.