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I believe we're approaching the final 3-5 years of prevalent piracy for several reasons:

  • Software: The difficulty of cracking and modifying software has significantly increased.

  • Movies and TV Shows: Numerous streaming sites have been shut down or faced legal penalties.

  • Adult Content: New releases are often removed within 1-5 weeks, and many older titles are no longer available on piracy platforms.

Given these trends, what might a post-piracy world entail?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Post-piracy? There will only be darkweb piracy that untraceable and unkillable. Everything will be available anonymously through I2P and there will be a jump in its popularity. Every normie will know that in order to download the new blockbuster, all they have to do is install I2P, an eDonkey clone, QBittorent, or Popcorn Time (which will run on I2P's anonymous torrents).

I pray that they shut down every single clearweb streaming and download website for us to finally all move to the darkweb.

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[–] LemmyQuest@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever actually use i2p?

It's very very slow that I don't think most people can do it.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and I used it when it was even slower. With a seed-box, it's fine. Just like in the 2000s when you had to download stuff overnight or wait a week. There are way fewer nodes in I2P than TOR nodes, but if it were to grow in popularity, speed wouldn't be an issue anymore.

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[–] HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago

Woah... I forgot about all that.

Waking up to the latest AAA that was started 36hrs ago at 75.8kb/s.

Of course it dropped to 0.9kb/s frequently, but it still downloaded.