It's really for the best. People need to start purchasing their media. Buy your music, movies, and games people. It's gotten to the point to where people don't care about stealing things.

People say,"Well, those singers are rich enough. It doesn't hurt them." That's not the point. It doesn't make it right for you to pirate/steal just because they're already rich.

I understand that there might have been SOME legitimate content on these sites, but the vast majority of it was copyright content.

@Blumatt.

Because everyone can afford to buy every piece of media 3 times ( like they want you too) or you know there arnt any regional restrictions blocking me from content that i wounldnt mind paying for.

Honestly, basic economics dictates any infinite good should be priced at zero (the marginal cost of producing another unit is zero) what is scarce is the the future good or other tangeible/intangeible goods that are not replicable. A unique experience, connection, interaction, a unique limited physical good. But most of all, future production of a content should be crowdsource. The more popular a band/director/creator is, the more fans they will have. The more they can set a goal to reach so they will release content. To get your name out there, you need to build a fan base so make content release it for free and build from there.

For how long?