Comment by JimDabell
> The chat bot operator slurps all websites and gives answers to all questions free of charge.
> No other website can compete with that.
Copyright infringers uploaded music, television, and films free of charge, yet people still pay for all of that.
> The whole story with streaming media is not just that pay streaming became more convenient. It’s also that content creators used legal and business mechanisms to make piracy inconvenient.
Do you seriously think that copyright infringement ended when Napster went down? Have you never heard of the Pirate Bay or Bittorrent? They didn’t succeed at all in shutting down copyright infringement. People pay for things because it’s convenient, not because copyright infringement is no longer an option.