> What ended piracy for common films was not DRM or videocassette seizures but the offer of cheap tapes and eventually cheap streaming that made it simply "not

> What ended piracy for common films was not DRM or videocassette seizures but the offer of cheap tapes and eventually cheap streaming that made it simply "not worth it" to pirate. Piracy has all but ended for movies. The issue with streaming is that there are movie streaming apps (for TVs, browsers, etc.) that basically offer the Netflix interface. I know of people with hundreds of TB of movies and series: catalog in the five digits (so more than 10 000 movies and series). In Europe there's also the totally rampant "IPTV" craze: where even retired boomers (not necessarily the most tech savvy audience) buy/rent an illegal little box with all of Disney+Netflix+HBO etc. plus also all the regular TV channels (of the entire world). I don't know in which world movies and series piracy disappeared but it's certainly not in the world in which I live in (FWIW I pay Netflix). I actually don't know if there's ever been an era with more movie piracy than nowadays!?