Firstly, I generally agree. There is a barrier to piracy. Personally, I don't think it's a lot to overcome, when someone wants to.
There are a number of torrent sites still active and when they go down, others will appear. That's how it's happened historically.
Usenet is still alive and well.
Pirate streaming sites are still out there.
Torrentfreaks is a great source for sites, etc.
There are a lot of ways for media to be pirated. Operating a vpn and torrent, while not part of most people's skillsets, the tech has advanced to the point where it's not difficult.
There was a tech barrier, but advancements in tech, make VPN as easy as,
install WindScribe. Register an account. Click a button. VPN connect active.
(Note: I'm not advocating WS, they are a random VPN provider I used as an example)
If you're not using the haugene/transmission docker image, you're doing the VPN wrong. There was a period of like 3-5 years on reddit where every other post in some of these subs was "my vpn shut down but the torrents kept torrenting and now I'm getting nasty letters from my ISP, why didn't the killswitch work!?!?!"
That's because a killswitch is a dumb idea. It's bad software written badly for a consumer operating system, but the job you were asking it to do was as critical as any control process some esoteric barebones RTOS wouldn't have been perfectly trusted to do.
I don't say this because I'm some genius... I'm saying that I'm the dumbass who learned these things slowly, over years, by fucking it up over and over.
> Pirate streaming sites are still out there.
This may be in the same universe as "piracy", but even so the light from real "piracy" will never reach it, it is that far away.
I use a seedbox and SFTP transfer to my home, so moot, in my case, at least.
The VPN was just an example of the lowered technical requirements to enter the space.
Seedboxes are even easier, albeit less well known.
The point is when there is a will, there will always be a way. As things progress, more and more people will start looking into other options, like piracy and the barrier is lower than it was in the Usenet days, for example.
There are a number of torrent sites still active and when they go down, others will appear. That's how it's happened historically.
Usenet is still alive and well.
Pirate streaming sites are still out there.
Torrentfreaks is a great source for sites, etc.
There are a lot of ways for media to be pirated. Operating a vpn and torrent, while not part of most people's skillsets, the tech has advanced to the point where it's not difficult.
There was a tech barrier, but advancements in tech, make VPN as easy as, install WindScribe. Register an account. Click a button. VPN connect active. (Note: I'm not advocating WS, they are a random VPN provider I used as an example)