[justaman]

Piracy as a whole is absolutely seeing a resurgence. The fragmentation of cable into the streaming era started wonderfully. There was a time when one or two subscriptions could service your media needs. I think the most egregious offender is the NFL. To follow your team, you need all these services: ESPN, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon. Or, you can pay for a sub-par service offered by the NFL.

Ultimately, we are paying more for less content with more ads than cable. AND they are selling our data on top of everything.

Piracy will gain enough momentum to warrant government intervention that will further degrade and rob us of internet freedom. Mark my words.

[musha68k]

I see it the same way.

In the long run imo only two options:

a) finally figure out licensing and platforming ambitions to unify so that the onus is not on customers

b) upgrade your democracies; become Switzerland

Ideally both.