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Gabe Newell had a point when he argued piracy was a platform and distribution problem.
We saw the piracy community practically collapse in the last decade or two as a result of streaming platforms having really good deals, subscriptions being cheap and easy access to huge amounts of content.
Now we're seeing pullback as enshittification happens to these previously good services and people return to piracy as they no longer solve the distribution and platform issues.
I'll probably get some flak for calling these services good but they really fucking were originally and that's why they killed rental markets and changed so much so quickly.
Netflix as it was when founded was truly a great service, lots of movies and shows from various sources, and it was relatively cheap
If they didnt sink so much money into producing their own content, I think it would have kept some quality today even with the big fracturing of streaming services into a million different platforms
They would've lost all their licenced content and been left with nothing. That's why they pivoted.
The real problem is that their strategy was to "become HBO" in an era where HBO could no longer exist - in the end, it was HBO and everybody else who "became Netflix".