[jaarse]

Everyone pointing out that their illegal streams, X streams, etc. work fine are kind of missing the point.

These secondary streams might be serving a couple thousand users at best.

Initial estimates are in the hundreds of millions for Netflix. Kind of a couple of orders of magnitude difference there.

[samatman]

Piracy is distributed, yes.

I think that is the point, in fact.

[robertlagrant]

Everything's easy when it's someone else's content.

[samatman]

I have to assume this is some snarky way of saying "violating copyright is Bad, m'kay".

Because taken at face value it's false. Any technical challenges involved in distributing a stream cannot possibly be affected by the legal status of the bits being pushed across the network.

[robertlagrant]

It means that someone who spends 100% of their money on distribution is going to have an easier time than someone who pays for content and distribution.