I have a mixed-use scenario; I am fine with paying for content and streaming it using proprietary applications. "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" remains one of the most insightful things anyone has said about media consumption in the last twenty years. But I have plenty of content that I have, at some point, paid a license for, and ripped to an unencumbered format that I can use going forward. //

There's no question that Downloader is frequently used to load programs that, in concept, can "enable piracy". But that almost always indicates that people want to consume content that is region locked, under onerous licensing terms, or no longer available through legal means. If I want to watch an Israeli TV show in the United States, and no one wants to sell it to me, what other choice do I have? It probably takes more effort to block those services by region than it does to sell it everywhere. Instead, grey market streams, private torrent trackers, and VPNs make money because they are serving a market. That people are paying for ways to circumvent restrictive licensing and content delivery is evidence in itself that the providers could make money by selling the content instead of blocking it. They don't even have to make a physical product! Just let some bits go one way instead of restricting them.