Lol as someone who lived quite some time before 2000, we had all kinds of ways of bootlegging. Ear worms would bootleg grateful dead shows, we would tape everything we could off public TV, we'd record radio to tape, we'd trade it. Radio was free and ubiquitous, cable TV didn't come around until the 80s and even then public access TV was much bigger pre HD and Y2k. And of course we simply spent more time together, something which our cultures has wound down quite effectively these last few decades.

Just saying, humanity has always found ways to be entertained for free, and Blockbuster is a short aberration in a long history of human culture. The aggressive monetization going on right now is not the story of history, and it's IMO not sustainable.