> Just like financial crimes will always exist[1], it isn't possible to stamp out piracy. As Gabe Newell said of piracy, "piracy is almost always a service pro

> Just like financial crimes will always exist[1], it isn't possible to stamp out piracy. As Gabe Newell said of piracy, "piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem". By and large, most people want to do the right thing to consume media. If you try to make it really hard to do that to stamp out the pirates, then you're just going to encourage the piracy market. But you can see services like Steam or the various music streaming apps that really did a lot to crush the piracy market just by making legitimate consumption easy. (And you can also see that the attempts by various streaming services to make walled gardens for video stuff that when you make it harder, piracy goes back on the uptick).