A decade and a half on from the Pirate Bay trial, the winds have begun to shift. On an unusually warm summer’s day, I sit with fellow film critics by the old city harbour, once a haven for merchants and, rumour has it, smugglers. Cold bigstrongs in hand (that’s what they call pints up here), they start venting about the “enshittification” of streaming – enshittification being the process by which platforms degrade their services and ultimately die in the pursuit of profit. Netflix now costs upwards of 199 SEK (£15), and you need more and more subscriptions to watch the same shows you used to find in one place. Most platforms now offer plans that, despite the fee, force advertisements on subscribers. Regional restrictions often compel users to use VPNs to access the full selection of available content. The average European household now spends close to €700 (£600) a year on three or more VOD subscriptions. People pay more and get less.
According to London‑based piracy monitoring and content‑protection firm MUSO, unlicensed streaming is the predominant source of TV and film piracy, accounting for 96% in 2023. Piracy reached a low in 2020, with 130bn website visits. But by 2024 that number had risen to 216bn. In Sweden, 25% of people surveyed reported pirating in 2024, a trend mostly driven by those aged 15 to 24. Piracy is back, just sailing under a different flag.
Hope much does a sole go for in today’s market anyway?
There is no such actual and real ability to remove any such from a person. It is a myth, used to create the delusuon of it being done. Gangs all the way up to the Military do a real, modern honest or at least candid (which is currently attempting the former from what the current change is to) rendition of what the old middle "evil" aged misunderstood original naming. More or less, an attempt to draw what ended up delusional. Current is much better and more accurate but the old end is attempting to be done again.
Money is as real as any soul leaving a person. Force can push in dimensions unseen but every soul can be stronger than every other dimension.
There's more but, meh...
"Markets" are the apex of the delusion that will destroy all life here soon.
So, I will not answer that with but the best rendition of reality I have thus far practiced to iterate well enough to build better understanding of the "matter."