My anecdotal experience suggests that today it is slightly more difficult to find pirated content than in "the golden age of Piracy" (namely the mid-noughties t

My anecdotal experience suggests that today it is slightly more difficult to find pirated content than in "the golden age of Piracy" (namely the mid-noughties to mid-10s). My hypothesis is that having a critical mass of people willing to search, consume and generate pirated content is important.