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P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com)
From a report: In recent years Hollywood and other entertainment sources have focused their enforcement efforts on pirate streaming sites and services. According to several reports, streaming sites get more traffic than their P2P counterparts, with the latter being almost exclusively BitTorrent related. While the rise of online streaming sites can't be denied, a new research report from anti-piracy outfit Irdeto shows that P2P remains very relevant. In fact, it's still the dominant piracy tool in many countries. Irdeto researched site traffic data provided by an unnamed web analytics partner. The sample covers web traffic to 962 piracy sites in 19 countries where P2P was most used. This makes it possible to see how P2P site visits compare to those of pirate streaming sites.
Eventually all software will be rented and media will be streamed to approved devices. Only approved devices will be allowed to connect to the Internet.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Here is a (hex) number:
A9C120EDFD186901C9DBD0F660
It is ALSO a copyrighted program (*) since I just wrote it.
1. Do you steal a number??? Hint. YOU CAN'T and don't since I STILL have it if you "steal" it.
2. If you copy that program you have committed piracy (since I never game permission for you to use it.) So copying numbers are now illegal ???
Yes, according to current idiotic, archaic, law. It is called "Copyright Infringement"
It doesn't matter if numbers represent data such as audio, video, text, etc.
Saying it is illegal to copy a number is still stupid.
(*) It a 6502 program (*) that prints the letters A-Z on an Apple ][.
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Only children censor
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.
Somebody. Not you, but somebody. Different people have different tastes.
This is only due to their lack of standards. If the service and the client were independent, you would probably see an explosion of media players. Oh wait, you do see an explosion of media players, but they don't work with any of the proprietary streaming services. ;-)
But go ask a pirate if they're lacking any crucial functionality. Nope. They might lack something you care about, but only because they don't. (See above where it was revealed that different people have different tastes.) When you have standards, people get what they want. Right now, only pirates have standards, so only pirates can have nice things.
If it gets to be too much of a problem, then either the whole world needs to switch to piracy, or else DRM will need to be outlawed.