They already have product placement in TV and Movies. They are getting eyeballs on those even when pirated. They need to realize the ad/commercial way to make money is the line in the sand with pirates that they won’t cross but we happily ignore product placement.
It started to get super political and they didn’t want to deal with that or have to take a ton of time cleaning up the comment section. I get it. I, too, miss the discussions on there but wow, about 6months before they killed them off it was a disaster.
Makes me wonder how much of this was due to IA having the federal deposit label now. That had to have chopped the lawsuit in half as they can legally hold all of that music. The confidential part speaks volumes.
Why download though? Tubesites abound. VPN’s are cheap af. Get cheap ass VPN, watch porn. Done. Even if the vpn is sleezy who cares, you just need it to show you are in a state that doens’t give a shit about those kinda laws (MA in the US doesn’t have those restrictions).
Also mentioned a hoard of times, yt-dlp works (just get the latest from github). Still, it’s porn. Unless it’s something ultra specific that you were looking for or something rare, just hit up a tube site.