Ah, the Alberta way!

And this is how RDJ stays the face of Iron Man in perpetuity.

Sure, 2019 was in the 21st century. So the corrected headline should be:

"2019 was hotter than any year in the 20th century (and every year so far in the 21st)"

The content owners are sadly stuck in the mindset of trying to roll the calendar back to the day when no one could rip dvd's (and before that cds) due to technical limitations. Stupid and greedy.

If they were *smart* and greedy they would realize that what the customer wants is access to the whole catalog - on demand. And cheaply.

How to do this? Well setting up a server farm to stream the data would be a good start - but how to convince people to stream content from their servers instead of using p2p to access illegal sources?

Easy. Make it cheaper/easier to stream the content from a legal source rather than from an illegal source by working out a deal with ISP's so that data streamed from the legal servers costs less per Gb than 'normal' internet access. Cut the ISP's in for a peice of the action and they will help *encourage* streaming from legal sources.

As a side effect, currently existing pirated content sitting on the net becomes cost *un* effective.
Then only a moron would pirate a movie via p2p for more than the cost of streaming from the legal sources.
Remember most people only watch a movie/show once so the benefit of downloading for multiple views is not worth the extra cost .

Bingo - piracy obsoleted, content owners and ISP's a have a new market that easy to manage and exploit, old content becomes valuable again and the customer gets what they want.