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Their Faves The maddening World of Content Distribution By Andy Marken Ever since our early days working with DVD manufacturers, we've always had a begrudging respect for pirates. They were much more polished than the thief who would figure out a way to sneak into a theater to film the movie on the screen, copy it and then sell or give it away – crude dude, real crude. First, they'd go to Blockbuster, rent the DVD, do their thing and return it. Then Netflix simplified things and the folks would have the disc (basically a gold master) delivered and BAM! digital copies for everyone. Finally, we went OTT and things got really easy. Of course, digital piracy has been around for years; but in so many ways, it has become socially acceptable and somehow now has become somewhat of a standard for measuring the depth of success of a movie or TV show. You know, best pirated movies last year – Joker, Avengers: Inf init y War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider- Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Klaus, The Irishman, The lighthouse, Green Book. Publish the Academy's list of Oscar nominees and swoosh they were on the TorrentFreak most popular list. It's little wonder that people who are concerned about the world around them and survival that Contagion (circa 2011) climbed the viewing ladder on Hulu as well as rental and torrent sites. Watching pirated stuff is so popular that "legitimate"