Just because it's easy for you to circumvent doesn't mean it's easy for the everyday user.
But totally agreed that it doesn't belong in web standards.
All it takes is for one person to circumvent it and the whole system crumbles. Which is the current state of affairs.
If i sound angry, it's because i am.
Actually Netflix is easier then pirating, which is now why Netflix consumes more traffic than torrents.
It... actually is already at this point. I can find any song, any TV show, and any film, available to stream instantly on Youtube of all places. This isn't a shady torrent site, it's a Google-owned property.
In the music sphere, Grooveshark has every song you could think of, and is claimed to fail to comply with the licensing requirements of the copyright owners, and is thus being sued over it.
There is little or no reason that a similar service could not pop up for video, aside from the fact that bandwidth is costly, and I'm sure that could be resolved to an extent through some form of torrent-over-WebRTC system.