- 20+MBit connections are the norm in the Western world
- there are no border checks or national firewalls to impede the flow of information worldwide (barring tyrannical regimes)
- the cost of making a copy and sending it out to anywhere around the world approximately = free
- we've had 20+ years to work on the service problem of piracy, to reach an acceptable equilibrium
It seems outrageous that we have fractured streaming services, no true digital ownership (even to match what we had for decades with VHS and optical discs), that restricting download rights is even a thing (I got my bag of bytes and paid for it, what is it to you what program or hardware I use to play it?), or that we have to wait at all for a film to be released in all geographies (I don't care that I'm in the Philippines - I already speak English and can't be bothered to wait for the official dubbing) if the bytes can come streaming down the pipe in less than a second.
I'm not entitled. I do have high expectations because we live in the goddamn future and copyright cartels are LARPing a world of digital cavemen. Like hell I'm gonna be content with that.
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> REM://youtube.com/watch?v=WpU7Hxf8iBw
Unsurprisingly, HN being full of people who've got rich off Web 2.0 tech that profits from the spread of piracy and its resulting products (ultra cheap streaming at the expense of artists and creators), plus enjoyed tons of cheap/free digital goods and entertainment over the years, has a hive mind that considers all this perfectly ok