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Piracy will always be an arms race. The only way they can end it is by solving the problems that drive people to it. The size of the Internet is too large to block. I know I stopped piracy for 5 years because everything was accessible on Netflix and Hulu. Now all these streaming services I picked it back up.
Most of these services are FOSS and they can't be shut down because they don't break any laws. The only thing that is in the gray zone are torrent sites, which are in abundance and it's not really that hard to switch from one to another or create a new one as operating costs are almost zero.