It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more r

It's not so much that the act of fetching and viewing pirated content will become more difficult, it's that rightsholders will continue to apply more and more restrictive techniques and outright deny content to paying customers. See the new DRM features in Windows 10 and the way the Windows Store version of Netflix interacts with perfectly legitimate screenshot tools, or the way Netflix simply refuses to provide 4k content to any other platform.