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A large part why Spotify, Netflix and Steam are so successful is because they are more convenient than piracy, and they have most of the content you would want.

When you again have the choice to either check half a dozen services to see who has the show you want, or to go one-stop shopping at the pirate bay, guess what a lot of people will do.



Speaking of that, it's curious that there isn't a piracy version of Steam that integrates with tor, torrents and such.

How bizarre and awesome (in the way stuxnet was awesome tech but not exactly well meant one) of a concept would that be? And the outcry of the triple A industry, wow.

There is LaunchBox for emulators and DOSBox but that's it.. and it just downloads the metadata, not the emulators and ROMs themselves.


But there is piracy version for streaming content. In CIS region there is an app for android(incl. TV) that allow You to watch literally any tv/show/movie/animation. Quality is shitty sometimes, but free is free


Each program is it's own special flower. A video format only has to cracked a few times and it applies to everyone, decodable to almost everyone.


Games are huge and each one has special needs, it's not like you can stream just part of a game. Certainly no Popcorn Time.




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