Surely this ship sailed a long time ago. This is just throwing money around to find someone to blame for piracy despite the fact that piracy is both inevitable and highly incentivized by the claimants.

With the current US Supreme Court, I wouldn't be that sure. And, depending on how they decide, it won't be just content disappearing because of excessive DMCA notices, your internet connection itself might be gone because someone didn't like what you downloaded (or watched) yesterday...

I have a feeling piracy is way down from the heyday of the 2000s-2010s.

> despite the fact that piracy is both inevitable and highly incentivized by the claimants

And also it doesn't harm sales: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15309950