Is torrenting/piracy dying?

[travellerr1]

Is the practice of video piracy slowly dying? I have noticed fewer videos available. Fewer people posting. Has streaming simply made torrenting unattractive? Am I correct?

[astalavistabeby]

Is the practice of video piracy slowly dying? I have noticed fewer videos available. Fewer people posting. Has streaming simply made torrenting unattractive? Am I correct?

depends where are you looking for /don t think so
there are so many trackers

[RobertX]

Not on my end.

Sites like The Pirate Bay, IPTorrents, and downloable streaming still exist and are not going away.

They are the norm.

Eat up and enjoy your life.

EDIT: I just realised that you mentioned streaming. It's interesting, but I rarely care to watch stuff that's not already on my hard drive.

EDIT; Torrenting dying? Nope, and don't worry, it won't for a long time. With all that being true, I would resort to torrents if I need to; you see, my mother freaked out when her account was buried with DMCA threats. I use my trusty download manager for the most part, but the odd Windows OS or a rare, obscure wrestling show are gotten by torrents.

Thank you very much.

[waregim]

It is under attack, and the typical user has no clue as to how to get around the impediments: tor, VPN, and the like.

Plus it does not help that the latest crop of kids are technologically incompetent. They have been dumbed down by their useless toy phones which chain them to the korporations which are not about to let them use tech skills on their jailed phones.

It also does not help that p2p and Usenet are under brutal constant attack by scummers and the average person cannot tell RAT infested garbage from real offerings.

The 'hacking spirit' is being killed off by a popular culture that kills tech curiosity.

Once the Masters get file sharing down below a threshold level, they will pretty much ingore it, and the rest of us 'power users' will probably find things easier, though offerings might be less, especially as they are trying to force the Win platform into the 'cloud' , and Linux is on shaky ground with Red Hat undermining it.

With the CASE law coming at us, soon all the media will be under stricter korporate rule, with greater controls over even simple content like photos.

This *could* havve an unintended effect of pushing social media into the Dark Net, and hopefully the Chinese will soon come up with a real universal open source OS. I dont care if Peking listens in. Its Five Eyes that are the problem. If that happens, P2P could explode in usage.

[Moe]

It's not going away anytime soon. If anything, it will increase with everyone setting up their own streaming service. They are slow to learn.

[Kotter]

video piracy will die only after the crash of the internet.

or until new technology emerges which puts sites like this outta place.

[RobertX]

Video piracy has always been prevalent even before the Internet.

Back then, they used hacked satellite chips, cracked content scramblers.

If it was to die, it would have died because the users aren't in a hurry to watch movies or pay-per-views.

So I don't believe that piracy will ever die, ever.