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?
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.