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Originally Posted by looky_lou
One word. MONEY!
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Yes. It now costs nothing to very little to be a pirate or access pirated material. Before the Internet high speeds and huge servers at low costs. The costs were too high. Before the Internet most piracy had to be paid for.
A pirated VHS required a blank tape which of any quality and in low numbers retail would cost $2. Then a second VCR to record one to the other, cost $300 approx. Plus cables to link. Cassettes were easier with a double deck cassette player, still blank tapes were bought. Quality of either was poor, taking it off the retail VHS or cassette. The big operations needed investment. There was the risk of getting caught selling it in a market or shop.
The early Internet was slow, hosting expensive and people on dial up or slow connections were not downloading/uploading full HD scenes. Remember the sizes of videos 12 years ago?
Now it costs so little to have huge servers, broadband home connections and a computer with so much hard drive it's a wonder how we survived in the early day. We now have more RAM than we had HD. Downloading a full site takes a few days or hours with some. Storing it on a computer or external HD. And having loads of downloads all for the cost of a premium membership.
