Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

honestly not trying to be a shill but there was a brief period that caught a glimpse of a post-piracy world where there were very little streaming services that had all the content you could want. It moved me away from piracy because of the convenience, library, and being able to share with friends and family.

Ideally a post-piracy world would have the options for uncensored/original versions of content, the ability to buy and store said content locally and own in perpetuity, with a price point for access to a vast library from a very small number of services. As many have said, the way to combat "piracy" is to offer a service better than piracy itself.

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

Assuming you are right with this:

For media: Buy in or consume less. If piracy will really become less prevalent you don't really have much choice, do you? I don't think everyone has to live like I do, but my media consumption in the past few years has shrunk more and more (for various reasons) and maybe that's something other people may gravitate towards as well. Life has a lot to offer beyond screens.

For software it's trickier. Maybe you find an open source project that suits your needs or maybe there's a competitor that hasn't (yet) enshittified their product. Unfortunately, if you really need a specific piece of software I think you might just be SOL 🤷‍♂️

Just my two cents

as software becomes more complicated and harder to modify the tools we use to pirate will catch up eventually

Piracy will never die, the one next step the industry goes the two next steps piracy goes. So basically this is a thing of cats and mice, it will never stop, it just goes and goes..

There is no post-piracy world, while the private owned system remains there will be people pirating it.

If private owned economic system never ends ergo piracy never ends also.

Private owned system should end? Idk maybe yes maybe not, we should define what's the point into ending it or not? If the system still maintain the pyramid scheme going what's the point of getting rid of it?

I've also felt that the age of piracy is coming to an end and subsequently have begun hoarding a lifetime worth of content. I have 32 TB to fill and I'm halfway there. My taste is mostly older movies and shows, so I want to ensure that I have access to them forever.

I've struggled to find resources for adult content, though, so that's a point of concern. I'm open to suggestions.

FOSS alternatives are out there for most software. I don't really care for pirating photoshop when GIMP is free.

You can't really kill P2P file sharing. If there is a need for creating a seed then someone will do it if the film/show is popular enough. Will probably be hosted through a DMCA non-compliant country.

There is so much good, open source software that I haven't had to pirate any software in years.

As far as movies and TV, the piracy won't stop until the enshittification stops. Usenet and torrents won't go anywhere.