That’s exactly what people said about a certain austrian during the 1920/1930s, regarding his speeches.

As the events leading to WW2 has teached us, words turn into actions frighteningly fast.

That’s intended. They want you to run into paid shows you might be interested in—while tech-savvy folks will realize they have better options, the average free customer will keep running into stuff they would want to watch but can’t because they don’t have a sub, until they cave in. If these services had a easy free-to-watch list, most of those people wouldn’t even spare a glance to the paid servings, as they could just entirely avoid them.

I did hear that Japan’s copyright laws are draconian, and boy, are they efficient at getting people for it. These last years I did see a lot of news about people who do scans and such getting arrested over there.