I ' m asking why you why you think it happened , in significant numbers , in the first place . The first video game I played was Descent , on some copied floppy disks . Back then , DRM wasn ' t really a thing , so developers would implement other systems to prevent copying you might get a prompt that asks you for the third word in the second paragraph of page 34 of the manual or something like that . It ' s really beyond dispute that ' casual ' copying was a thing . Step 1 Install utorrent Step 2 click the fucking link . I have never met a person who couldn ' t do that . I could teach my dad to do that , and he still uses a tenyearold laptop and twelveyearold desktop . He doesn ' t understand what a spreadsheet is he keeps inventory on pen and paper because he doesn ' t know any better . But I could teach him to download torrents , it ' s easy as shit . And to be clear , streaming from sites like primewire is much easier . Hilarious . What fucking link does your dad click ? How does he find a tracker in the first place ? What does he do when he finds a tracker and it gets raided by the FBI and shut down a week later ? What ' s a S and L and how many does he need ? Is it possible to teach a tech noob how to use BT ? Sure . But what I said was that most people don ' t know how to use torrents . Beyond that , I ' m not going to teach my grandma how to use torrents and then deal with her blaming me for a nastygram from her ISP or malware , or for her seeing a porn ad , or any of the other crap that routinely goes along with BT . All they have to do is write a contract requiring that the movie theaters protect their movies , and possibly create a system of punishments if your copy leaks . Which they do . They definitely do that . I realize that they have contractual restrictions the issue is how well they can enforce those restrictions . Plenty of illegal copies are projectionist cams that happens despite ironclad contracts . B . If it was easier for them to develop such technology , they ' d have done it successfully by now . That ' s DRM literally the subject of our conversation . Implementations of it get disabled and bypassed by a tiny minority of very knowledgeable people , for use by a larger minority of moderatelyknowledgeable people . Then , new DRM gets created and the cycle begins again . But again , the fact that it ' s possible to find unlicensed copies doesn ' t mean that it ' s easy for a casual user to make a copy .