Piracy / copyright predictions?

The current situation feels untenable with renting. So many regular people I know have learned about VPN, NAS, etc.

codemog 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hopefully the guillotines. Look up how much the authors and artists who create the actual work get paid.

	▲	0x3f an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Quite a few textbook authors I know are paid well to be part of the whole scheme (kickbacks, forced yearly repurchase for the 'online' component of books, etc). So I think it varies a lot.

specproc 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was never sustainable, just regulatory capture by large IP owners.

Spotify, Netflix, Amazon etc provided OK value for a while, but now enshitification is biting, this is due a massive comeback.