[fodkodrasz]

It is actually pirating content by companies for humongous profit, or pirating by individual human beings for free access to culture and entertainment, oftentimes for content one has already paid for, but rendered inaccessible by megacorporations.

[lotsofpulp]

Which content making businesses earn humorous profit margins?

Are all the journalist layoffs a fever dream?

This is one of the more profitable ones, and only because they employ unscrupulous tactics:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NWS/news/profit-ma...

This is NYT, the most successful news business:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NYT/new-york-times...

As for movies/tv show/music makers, let’s just say most people in the software engineering business would look at their numbers and count their lucky stars that they are not in the movie/tv show/music business.

(It is also true that excessive copyright lengths have removed access to content that the public should have a right to).

[defrost]

> Which content making businesses earn humorous profit margins?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine)

https://www.theonion.com/

[fodkodrasz]

> Which content making businesses earn humorous profit margins?

You got my point backwards: AI companies will make it from the pirated content, that individual users don't make.

[sjfjsjdjwvwvc]

The movie/tv show and music business can keel over and die tomorrow - it wouldn’t affect the value of art produced by humans at all. I see those more as exploitative leeches than as contributing anything positive.

If only piracy would actually harm these businesses but alas as often demonstrated it has zero effect on their bottom line, if anything it increases their profits.

[RandomLensman]

What do you mean by "art"?

[sjfjsjdjwvwvc]

Hard question, but in the context of my comment I would say any kind of visual media or music