I often shed a tear for how piracy killed entire gaming, music and movie industries.
Oh wait - it didn't.
@hvangalen For me it was largely Steam that took me away from game piracy. GOG was also good for a different type of games. Anything else sucked but thankfully those 2 are still big and games can be on multiple platforms easily.
Now movies and series.. I'm seriously contemplating pirating there again because movie X is on Netflix, Y is on Prime, Z is on Disney, and so on. *AND* those are subscription based services too, which costs money. I can't be subbing to 10 services at once, so it's going to be a lot of switching around... which is stupid. The fragmentation is going to promote pirating again. Gee, where had I seen that before...
I do want to support Netflix and other streaming platforms. But they are too many, and too closed. They are blocked in China, and I normally use proxy to get around. But they blocked my server's ip (for some copyright reasons? looks like they blocked all ips from data centers), thus I switched to rarbg and the pirate bay...
