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Originally Posted by Manabi
It's not quite as bad as it was then. The RIAA stopped suing filesharers, most of the really notorious copyright trolls have had their extortion-suing train derailed (or ended up in jail like Prenda Law), and as ratinox noted, copyright duration wasn't extended yet again. Still plenty of it going on, but at least most people don't have to worry about being sued over it now.
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These days mostly its swindling YouTube creators and Twitch streamers. Big Content discovered that there is a massively better return on investment by sending a few lawyers after Google and Amazon and ISPs, threatening them with lawsuits unless the platforms and providers comply with their demands, than trying to track down innumerable individuals and suing each of them individually.