Confessions of a Disk Cracker: The Secrets of 4am
I think one need to view everything that happens with a time lens.<p>Locally at the time the content is produced it be seen as evil by corporations to copy it and distribute the titles for free. For one thing income from selling the software funds the next releases from the software company. So if there is no funding due to piracy there will not be a next release.<p>From a long term perspective and that of preservation. Pirates and crackers have done a very good deed. If no one could copy the content from an old disk system to a new system how would it be preserved? How will DRM protected content be copied and preserved for the future?
How will content from online platforms like Netflix, HBO, Steam be preserved? 
Maybe it will be preserved by crackers and pirates? Is that a bad thing?<p>How will the content of online software as a service companies be preserved for the future?