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Piracy / copyright predictions?

The current situation feels untenable with renting. So many regular people I know have learned about VPN, NAS, etc.

Hopefully the guillotines. Look up how much the authors and artists who create the actual work get paid.

Quite a few textbook authors I know are paid well to be part of the whole scheme (kickbacks, forced yearly repurchase for the 'online' component of books, etc). So I think it varies a lot.

All authors should have a pay + linktree type thing so pirates can pay them directly.

Or something like thanks.dev

It was never sustainable, just regulatory capture by large IP owners.

Spotify, Netflix, Amazon etc provided OK value for a while, but now enshitification is biting, this is due a massive comeback.

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