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By consuming Dead Men Tell No Tales via a leaked link, audiences proved to Disney that the high-seas adventure genre was no longer safe. The real curse wasn't the ghost sharks or the Trident of Poseidon. It was the curse of —the belief that art should be free, and that the people who make it should figure out the bills themselves.

In the pantheon of modern blockbuster cinema, few franchises have sailed as far or as profitably as Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean . With its swashbuckling charm, Hans Zimmer’s iconic score, and Johnny Depp’s immortal performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, the series was a box office juggernaut.