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It's amusing watching streaming turn into cable, but somehow worse. At least we got some public access programming out of cable.

Piracy is a service problem. Valve proved digital piracy can be beaten by commercial solutions. The problem is the media cartels being intransigent with digital delivery, not piracy.

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Uber turned into taxis, but worse.

Airbnb turned into hotels, buts worse.

This is "disruption."

Gabe's stance was established over a decade ago; I think it's been long enough that we can add Music streaming to bolster that argument, because so many people don't really consider piracy there either. The price isn't outrageous, all the content is there when you search for it, and ads are non-existant. Piracy has been left for the truly frugal (sharing accounts, public trackers) or the die-hards (private trackers or similar).

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