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It has largely stopped being common though. The supply has also gone down drastically. It used to be easy to find even confidential movies and download them, ev
by mijamo 5y ago
It has largely stopped being common though. The supply has also gone down drastically. It used to be easy to find even confidential movies and download them, even for a non tech family. Nowadays only well informed people keep pirating and non-mainstream supply has gone down so much that it is sometimes impossible to find, which is a shame because that supply is also frequently not available through streaming so you just have some DVD on Amazon.
The crackdown on pirating + streaming together really killed the scene at a point where it's no longer an inconvenience for the market actors.
I would say the same is happening with crypto where KYC and AML rules will progressively apply so that you will still have crypto but the "freedom" or lawless use will be so inconvenient that it won't be a problem for governments and financial actors. It just take time for those rules to be set, but there's really not so many complicated things about it.
The belief that code would beat laws is absurd, in the end you live in a physical world. Sure you could try to have an underground crypto that nobody can use officially but would that really be useful?
- shafyy 5y agoExactly, couldn't have said it better myself.
- Intermernet 5y agoPretty sure it was purely affordable streaming that killed bit-torrent. Now that the streaming providers are becoming more disparate, and the old media empires are locking everything up behind ten different streaming platforms, each of which require monthly subscriptions, you'll almost certainly see a resurgence in piracy. It's really just the free market at work ;-)
- snovv_crash 5y agoDepends where you are. Somewhere like Germany you just receive a €300 bill in the mail every time you torrent something, this has a definite chilling effect on torrenting. For crypto, with all transactions being publicly available, I see this being even easier to implement.
- koonsolo 5y agoNot all cryptocurrencies have public transactions (see Monero for example). And next, you still have to link a wallet with a real person. Might be possible, but not necessarily so. With BitTorrent, you at least have an IP address, which is easier to link with a real person.
- AussieWog93 5y agoWhat are you talking about? BitTorrent is absolutely alive and well, and the big sites still have everything you want as soon as it airs. I'm not talking just popular movies; I was getting Battlebots episodes from Rarbg earlier this year, in 1080p, pretty much as soon as they aired in the US.