>>487246convenience is actually an important issue involving piracy as a problem relative to profitability
it's actually why russia and china went from kind of unimportant video game markets to really big ones with the advent of digital distribution
it's also the biggest supporting factor for drm, even if they let the license expire and remove it from the game or use a shitty one that will be cracked in a week
it's really prevalent with anime and manga as well
even as streaming software continues to improve, many anime fans still pirate because of spotty connection and quality issues that aren't very reasonably solved
also just because anime was only obtainable illegally for so long that everyone is already used to it
movies in theaters at least have the theater screen and sound experience defending them, but they still take a heavy hit from streaming services and an ever-growing expanse of accessible old media
that also feeds back into remakes and re-releases of lots of media in the modern age requires some other item to be at all usable, which is another important factor in the ease of piracy