Not sure how your example of Netflix refutes the point being made? It’s exactly the point? Regardless this just goes to show that the problem can be mitigated

Not sure how your example of Netflix refutes the point being made? It’s exactly the point? Regardless this just goes to show that the problem can be mitigated by making the legitimate route less painful than the illegitimate one. I used to pirate most of my music collection but now I use Apple Music because the friction of maintaining the library across multiple devices is so much lower. Imposing restrictions and hoops to make your product harder to pirate is vastly inferior and in many cases entirely ineffective in than designing the product to be a superior experience to pirating it. The ability to do so is going to vary wildly by the product itself, but that is the better way to achieve the goal. There are people who will always pirate things, whether out of principle or out of economics. However there are plenty of people who would gladly cross the line if the legitimate route was significantly better, either by ease of use or design.