In the early 2000s Alex had an opensource project written in PHP. I was then learning PHP and used his project to learn how to build a web app end to end: auth, business logic, db interactions, views, etc. I was in my late teens, and using his project as a guide I built several products that people used and were keen to even pay for, learnt lots back then.
This has been done already for years. Regions like Andalucia, Galicia or Extremadura have been enforcing the use of free software, even creating their own Ubuntu based distros.
It's not software piracy what is being targeted here, but movies and music. The software industry can't (or doesn't want to) lobby as hard as the entertainment industry.
I stopped clicking on video responses when I realised that almost all of them were spam videos trying to get some views after the original video went viral.
If it was responsive, all they would be doing is "hiding or relocating stuff", but the size (in KB) of each page would be the same for mobile and desktop.
That would make it unusable on a mobile. They NEEDED to do different pages for each, and make it much lighter for mobile.
Thanks Alex!