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No, I don’t think it will go like that.
But if piracy would go away, then it would mean we live in a great world:
As long as those points are not achieved, there will always be a need for piracy, and people will always find new ways to get their content. So far, I do not see us being somewhere even close to that ideal world, so there are plenty of reasons for piracy to exist.
I personally try to pirate things more ethically, for example I try to buy music and games whenever I can, but I know several people that pirate stuff just because they can.
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This was a Romanian tracker, and it was pretty much the most popular one (or at least that I know of), so I am pretty sure there was a lot of local content as well. Movies also always had Romanian subtitles IIRC, so it was a great source for anyone not having a really good English comprehension to fiddle around.
There surely are other trackers as well that I’m not aware of or there’s Romanian content on other international ones, but the community there was quite impressive - you always knew you could source some good quality stuff.
For me, personally, FL was pretty much my go-to whenever I wanted to get something that I couldn’t source for free.
From my understanding, they were already in debt to Moldova (not sure if I understood correctly).
For Moldova, however, this means that it eliminated a source for blackmailing from Russia. Despite also being state-owned, Transgaz and Romania don’t have a history of manipulating prices and cutting gas at will, just because of geopolitical interests and national politics of their clients.
two thirds are still two thirds - whether that’s 3 people out of 4 or 750.000 out of 1.000.000. And given that
A survey published in the journal BMC Psychiatry two months before the Taliban takeover found nearly half the population suffered from psychological distress.
I think the numbers are really worrying.
From what I understood, the gardens were, like, their headquarters. Bombing them would be their Achile’s heel.
Indeed, as @FunderPants said, Metro Last Light should answer some of your questions :D
The military-industrial complexes always have something to gain in wars (provided they manage to adapt in time). But there’s no other alternative industry that can supply the needed hardware to win a war, when an invasion happens. It just seems that’s all what our species can do best: kicking each other, then having a rest for a few dozen years and starting over.