After Fox, Disney et al pulled content from Netflix, coupled with regional restrictions, there’s literally nothing to watch on Netflix in Sweden except Netflix’s own original content.
Hulu isn’t available outside of US.
HBO is just as bad as Netflix outside the US.
Even iTunes Store is subject to regional restrictions (but the selection yhere is still much larger)
I am not so sure about that. It will always exist, but it is getting increasingly difficult to break DRM. So we may have long periods where the rips are inferior compared to the source (i.e., transcodes via capping). All the new 4K stuff is already quite difficult due to SGX/other hardware enclaves. So it's not a question of just time/dedication to reverse engineer a blob.
Also, hardware does get hacked too.
Do you have real examples of where this is the case? Outside of a vanishing minority of titles, DRM-stripped releases appear in a timely manner just as they have always done.
When life gives you lemons you JTAG those keys out the enclave if you have to. Don't worry, life always finds a way.
I'm not so optimistic. That is precisely the threat model. That is not to say that it is impossible. Side channel exfiltration from stuff like SGX has been shown, but that's a different game really.
And because DRM is fundamentally broken (i.e., there is always the analogue hole at the end of the spectrum) it will never prevent piracy on its own.
Isn't piracy illegal though? I assume it will get deplatformed
Piracy decreased because the alternative became more convenient. It's easier to pay a few bucks on a monthly basis than it is to download the torrents. But, as those fees are increasing alongside the number of services that you need to pay for, piracy is bound to fill in the gaps. It's illegal, but the less people could afford the alternative, the more difficult it is going to be to stop piracy. A domain or two could be shut down, but if TPB is of any use now, it's to remind us that it's not easy to stop a highly-motivated group of people. I'd argue that The Web is still hectic enough to accommodate such a group of individuals.
Piracy was significantly reduced by Spotify and Netflix because it was more cost and effort-effective to just pay a monthly subscription to get most if not all content you need.
And then copyright holders decided it wasn't good enough and crippled Netflix without providing any alternatives (as always). Watch them blame pirates again in the nearest future.
There is Hulu in Japan, but with a different catalogue afaict.
Pirates are going to prison for providing a better service at lower cost, the core essential of capitalism.
Intellectual Property is a strange concept, but there is something going on, after all movies and TV shows have enormous budgets and they depend on revenue, which is still basically made from individual cinema goers and TV channels (ads), and subscribers (no ads).
The never expiring copyright is the problem, and the very strict fair use (eg sampling, and fanfics are illegal unless proper licences have been attained).
This leads to relatively few complex and kind of efficient for-profit content producers, and a lot of very small not-for-profit enthusiasts (who are probably hyper-efficient in some dimensions, but since their competence is naturally limited, they will not be that efficient in all the relevant/required domains). So we have Hollywood, a few independent filmmakers doing the small budget creative stuff, the regional markets with their respective woods (eg India, China, Japan), plus usually countries have some funding for local productions, but that's it.
And maybe even this would be more than enough weren't almost all of the content locked up in archives. (And only available maybe on torrent, or maybe on a random on-demand pay-per-view site.)
Of course it works marvelously, for example there are shows that otherwise are inaccessible to many. (Animes come to mind.)
If there were some kind of pay as you wish backchannel probably a lot of people would happily give more than zero to content creators.