We can throw anecdotes around all day, but I personally know a good ~dozen or so people including myself who were huge into piracy before Netflix came along. Ov

We can throw anecdotes around all day, but I personally know a good ~dozen or so people including myself who were huge into piracy before Netflix came along. Over the past few years, we've all gone "back to our roots" because paying for all the services today costs more than a full cable TV package did 10 years ago. It looks like I'm headed back that way for music too. I'm a huge fan of rap and Death Row recently removed some of their most popular releases for the sake of NFTs?[0] This isn't how you get customers to go buy your music, it's a great way to piss them off and get your music for free. It's becoming a seemingly regular thing, with artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removing their libraries where possible. You can even look at Steam with their relatively wild success in Russia; GabeN himself has said "It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates"[1] that you realize it's not a pricing issue, it's an availability issue. It's a similar deal with Netflix, if we're browsing through movies we probably want to watch one right now, not wait a few hours to download one or go to a store to rent a disc. [0]: https://thesource.com/2022/03/14/snoop-dogg-removes-most-of-death-rows-catalogue-from-dsps/ https://thesource.com/2022/03/14/snoop-dogg-removes-most-of-... [1]: https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-success-in-russia/ https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-suc...