That is called engagement farming, pretty common on YouTube, there are probably 50 videos like this released in the past month, they just copy paste from each other, each getting hundreds and thousands of views.
The only noticeable decline in piracy came in the year when Netflix got famous, which got reverted in the next few years due to the launch of another 100 Streaming sites and netflix’s enshittification.
It definitely had a dip. Sure you could find whatever you wanted but the amount of people doing it has declined, and ease of use. Streaming when it started was to easy and people didn’t bother. Now price increases and ads and stuff going everywhere, piracy is easier.
It almost died when?
Any pirated content that I’ve looked for over the past 20 years has been easily accessible.
The only reason I’ve slowed down is due to the quality of today’s media, not because of availability of content.
Anime & Movie & TV streaming sites got hit pretty hard not that long ago.
That is called engagement farming, pretty common on YouTube, there are probably 50 videos like this released in the past month, they just copy paste from each other, each getting hundreds and thousands of views.
The only noticeable decline in piracy came in the year when Netflix got famous, which got reverted in the next few years due to the launch of another 100 Streaming sites and netflix’s enshittification.
It definitely had a dip. Sure you could find whatever you wanted but the amount of people doing it has declined, and ease of use. Streaming when it started was to easy and people didn’t bother. Now price increases and ads and stuff going everywhere, piracy is easier.
There may have been a “dip” but never was it close to being moribund.