I believe we’re approaching the final 3-5 years of prevalent piracy for several reasons:

  • Software: The difficulty of cracking and modifying software has significantly increased.

  • Movies and TV Shows: Numerous streaming sites have been shut down or faced legal penalties.

  • Adult Content: New releases are often removed within 1-5 weeks, and many older titles are no longer available on piracy platforms.

Given these trends, what might a post-piracy world entail?

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Even if there was a multinational effort to stop P2P file sharing I feel like other methods would just be adopted or become mainstream

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Even then I still don’t think you could stop it. Maybe put a dent in it by taking down sites that host them, but all that’ll do really is push indexers onto .onion or i2p, or make it so you share the torrent files by word of mouth or matrix/telegram groups, or back to IRC.

      • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        A very good point. I had forgotten about I2P and I don’t know a ton about how hosting an onion site works