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Hilarious. Regardless, piracy will not die in 2018 and I doubt it ever will. It's just submerging away from the mainstream and it'll probably only be for the people who actually don't depend on TPB to torrent things.

Nah
Privacy's already dead dude.  The NSA is watching you, your ISP is watching you, and companies are watching you.  Walk outside and look up.  If you live in a city-ish area, you'll see cameras, tons of them.  The government has those too.  The government has been using drones as well since 2013.  Google and Facebook have been analyzing everything you put through them.  Think you can escape Google?  You'd have a hard time doing so, since millions of websites use Google Analytics and/or Google AdWords.  Even if you did escape Google, you have to escape the NSA.  Good luck with that, considering that the NSA is a part of the NIST, which is the group that controls the encryption standards.  If they control the encryption, then SSL is useless against them.  The NSA has backdoored encryption functions in the past, and there's no reason why they won't do it again.

Privacy is long gone, and Snowden wasn't the beginning or end.

Are you mixing up piracy and privacy? Frankly if it was such a huge deal then it would have all been shut down far sooner. Let's be honest, the government didn't just dig their claws into the whole privacy thing just last year. If they wanted to end piracy and they had this power, they either don't because they need it, they don't because they don't care enough, or they don't because the power isn't actually there. I'm pretty on board with the second bit.

Wow... Yes, I misread. Piracy makes much more sense, with the content of the original post.
That's two confused posts today, and probably the first time that has happened to me.

Piracy isn't gonna die. (yet, who knows what'll happen in the farther future) Torrenting might die sometime in the future, but not as soon as 2018. With sites like 123Movies GoMovies GoStream 123Movies, there isn't any point in torrenting movies. For software though, there aren't many alternatives, so it'll stick around for a while until it becomes obsolete.
Piracy won't die unless the government decides to go really crazy, and they won't do that for a while now.