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> perfect their anti-piracy systems

and yet it's trivial today to obtain any media you want to watch for free. popcorn time comes to mind, but there's countless others.

Fighting piracy is like trying to fight the tide.

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My anecdotal experience suggests that today it is slightly more difficult to find pirated content than in "the golden age of Piracy" (namely the mid-noughties to mid-10s). My hypothesis is that having a critical mass of people willing to search, consume and generate pirated content is important.

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