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A number of the biggest torrent sites are down. Others are mere shadows (e.g. kickass). I would say the law in this case is winning, perhaps because there are so many streaming options now that the demand has dried up.

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It seems more like the market is winning rather than the law. I pirate way way less now that netflix and hbonow are available. And when somebody creates a service for $15/mo that lets me stream live sports, I'll stop pirating those too.

This is fine for Americans, but because of increasingly sophisticated (and bizarrely aggressive[1]) VPN detection, it's not necessarily an option to people elsewhere.

[1] - http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/04/22/hbo-says-it-will-terminate...

No kidding. I can't even use Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels because Netflix thinks I'm trying to intentionally circumvent geolocks when I just want V6 support... sigh

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So instead of using a free service to violate copyright you are using a paid service to do the same?

And yet the Library Genesis mirrors are alive and well.

What's the difference? Is it simply the size of the downloads? (Ebooks are only a few megabytes, so a single hobbyist can easily mirror the whole library these days.)

book publishers don't typically make many millions of dollars that can be thrown away on litigation, i'd imagine. perhaps with the exception of academic journal publishers.

Textbook publishers (f*ck you, Pearson) also have the money for it, but they trend more towards single-use codes. Cuts down on resale and piracy in one stroke.

Let us toast to this great victory of the content-industry, with table-water (599 Spotify Downloads a glass). When i look around today, i see a lot of smiling faces. Those smiles, that bliss of total unawareness, that the state may have a interest in subsidied cheap bread and games, is what really keeps the game and movie industrie going. Im proud to be here, and im proud to get paid this well to speak here. Here is to you, great Pyrrhic, may we have many partys like this more.

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