Microsoft products, EA games, Disney films and Netflix will no longer be sold in Russia. Putting this in the context of "Russia to Legalize Software Piracy" [1

Microsoft products, EA games, Disney films and Netflix will no longer be sold in Russia. Putting this in the context of "Russia to Legalize Software Piracy" [1], I wonder how effective some of these private sanctions actually are. If Netflix content is still available in Russia (via piracy) but NFLX no longer makes revenue from it, that doesn't seem like much of a sanction. Sanctions on physical things (Apple and Samsung phones, TSMC chips) seem much more effective, but only if Russia can't get the same or equivalent products through third parties, like they did during the Carter administration's grain embargo against the Soviet Union [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30586211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30586211 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_grain_embargo_against_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_grain_embargo_ag...