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> enough of the population would never bother

People have bothered with downloading low-quality Mp3s from Napster, figuring out video codex and modding game consoles to get free video games. If the need is dire enough, the users will figure it out, no matter how high the friction is.

Those with enough technical chops will figure out how to do it by themselves, those with enough intelligence will find resources on the internet, the rest will ask a friend or pay a local IT person to get it set up for them.



> People have bothered with downloading low-quality Mp3s from Napster, figuring out video codex and modding game consoles to get free video games

That's not "enough", it was extremely nice and probably less than 1% of population




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