It certainly makes sense for the U.S. government to act against large-scale, commercial, copyright-infrigning streaming services. These estimations of the impact to the U.S. economy that online piracy represents have always struck me as highly dubious, however.
$30 billion per year? For context, that’s roughly equivalent to the combined revenues of Netflix and YouTube for 2019.
Is there really another Netflix + YouTube sized subscriber base out there that would be willing to pay for these services if only some of the same content weren't available for free? Seems unlikely.
$30 billion per year? For context, that’s roughly equivalent to the combined revenues of Netflix and YouTube for 2019.
Is there really another Netflix + YouTube sized subscriber base out there that would be willing to pay for these services if only some of the same content weren't available for free? Seems unlikely.