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		fsflover 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FSF announces Librephone project Actually, piracy became rare exactly when Netflix became easy to use and not when the former became illegal (which it always was).

positron26 48 days ago [–]

Hey don't discount the work that various actors did to make piracy less convenient as well. VPNs and upload caps, not to mention putting all the infrastructure and ops in place to force people to use them made piracy harder than it technically needs to be.

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