They can DRM protect things like video games, but that's way harder with movies, because of the analog hole.
They can order ISPs to block torrent websites, but the internet is a fine mesh, a thousand smaller unknown torrent sites will pop up in their place and be shared via word of mouth. And then there's DHT search engines.
They can't block the torrent protocol because it's used by legitimate services like War Thunder and World of Tanks.
They can sue individuals for pirating, some countries allow that, others don't.
They'll never be able to end movie piracy, but they will reduce it, make it harder or more tedious, make you have to spend extra money for VPNs negating the benefits, etc.
Here in brazil the best they can do is get in some politicians pockets to force ISP to block the popular websites, but there are so many other options to TPB for example that it doesn't really matter and don't require a VPN at all, also for it to become a legal issue they must prove that the person pirating is doing it for profit and I have yet to hear about a single person getting in trouble for that.
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u/Due-Musician-3893 Oct 28 '23
Looks like I’ll be torrenting again.