No. Piracy is the only reason things moved in acceptable direction for regular consumer. Were it not MP3, P2P, codecs, matroska and other technologies and formats, we would all still be beholden to some ridiculous locked down standard imposed by the copyright holders and bricked-by-design devices ( ala Zune, which had crazy DRM approach ). Let us not forget that there were ideas of destroying your PC if there is an indication of not allowed content on it.
And even those gains, which were won with overwhelming disobedience, because early internet people were at least technical enough to burn a cd are now being eroded again, but under different guise. Piracy stopped being a thing, because it got easier to get stuff you wanted when you wanted it without trolling the internet. Now with streaming wars coming to a close, content owners think they will get to impose rules not realizing that they are making the same mistake thinking kids will not learn how to bypass whatever restrictions they put in place all over again.
And even those gains, which were won with overwhelming disobedience, because early internet people were at least technical enough to burn a cd are now being eroded again, but under different guise. Piracy stopped being a thing, because it got easier to get stuff you wanted when you wanted it without trolling the internet. Now with streaming wars coming to a close, content owners think they will get to impose rules not realizing that they are making the same mistake thinking kids will not learn how to bypass whatever restrictions they put in place all over again.
History. Rhymes. All that.