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dingus  ·  3098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Lost

Well, it's not so much that the scene is dead, it's more that the legal battle has been lost. The MPAA has free reign and DRM is still widespread. Sure, pirating is still pretty much as healthy as before, but as you said it's been buried under a pile of shit and it's fending off attacks from all sides. Piratebay is still raided regularly. Tor hidden services are pretty much easy pickings for law enforcement now. The freedom of the net is slowly going away, and the only group doing anything meaningful is the EFF -- and they're not terribly effective.