I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
You could say they’ve won battles, but never any war against piracy.
They’ve made examples out of low-hanging fruit and are trying to legislate compete authority over copyright(they’d legislate parody if they could), but it just isn’t feasible.
Piracy is a decentralized, evolving amalgation of countless methods and technologies bent toward the relatively simple task of sharing media.
They can close down a website or fine a clueless teenager 200,000, But that has no effect on the desire to watch a movie or play a video game without betting your money that the production will be of value.
They very nearly beat piracy when there was basically only one streaming service, Netflix, and everything was on it.
Music piracy used to be the biggest thing and now no one pirates music anymore since there are one or two streaming services with essentially 100% of all the music available
Make going legit easier than piracy and piracy goes away
But unfortunately for the studios everyone wanted to get their own piece of the streaming revenues and fragmented the market. In a lot of ways it’s still better than the old cable tv system (everything on demand, no or at least fewer ads, higher quality programming) but the sheer amount of services someone needs in order to be able to watch everything (and even then it’s not 100%) is really turning people off.
If they’d all stuck with Netflix or whatever and every studio got on board there’d be basically no piracy now
I need a high level of evidence for that claim. I don’t think Netflix made much of a difference in piracy and certainly didn’t nearly “best it”.
Do you have any corroborating statistics?
There would be less piracy if the were only one affordable streaming service, but I would argue that piracy won in that event, since that’s what pirates are looking for: affordable, comprehensive available content.
Many of them pay money every month to sites for that reason.
Speaking to music, there is plenty of piracy going around, it’s not at all eradicated just because there are platforms.
https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/
Over 38 percent of people still pirate music, according to those numbers.
Platforms should be simple, comprehensive and affordable, but that isn’t going to stop piracy or beat piracy any more than the drug war worked.
Colorado and Oregon are legalizing psychedelics, but that doesn’t mean they beat the illegal psychedelic users, it means that two states are finally coming around to a practical approach to psychedelics.
Many countries are way ahead of the states with respect to their policy toward copyright infringement and the absurd sunk cost and pejorative fallacy of targeting media piracy, the states just aren’t there yet.