Given the current proliferation of Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, Discovery+, Paramount+ and streaming services torchbearer Netflix, no truer words may have ever been uttered than "content is king." Piracy, on the other hand, is older than the printing press.

In the last two decades, the music industry and, more specifically, songwriters, producers and recording artists have been losing the value of their efforts to online piracy while certain Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may deliberately turn a blind eye to their pirating subscribers while reaping the benefit of the subscribers' monthly payments.