"Cutting down sharing in friend groups" is exactly what they hope to achieve.
>The vast majority of DRM protected content (or at least majority by watch time) available in UHD via torrent in a matter of hours. People like to stay away from torrents, because it carries significant risk in many jurisdictions.
Sounds like you're proving his point? If stripping DRM is so trivial that anyone can pop in a bluray and rip it (like ripping CDs in itunes), piracy would arguably far worse. Pirates today have to brave shady torrent sites and the risk of getting C&D letters. Asking your friend to make a copy is far more accessible.
Or torrent through a VPN, which many people have access to already.
If you can ask a friend with basic tech know-how to "rip a CD", you can also ask a friend with basic tech know-how and a VPN to "rip a movie".
It's that hard to upload a file to google drive and share a link? Is your model of the average person a bumbling idiot that struggles to do anything other than opening tiktok and flicking up?
I mean, a real average person, in a natural environment. Not in a movie or in stock footage. The real deal.
I have, and, holy shit. I cannot find the words to express just how unsettling it was of an experience. I still haven't fully recovered from it.