> I'd be willing to pay for this privilege - aka watching in the comfort of my own home - but they leave me no choice in the matter.

I'm always stunned by this argumentation - because in fact there are other choices: you could just not watch the particular movie at all or wait until it's available for home entertainment. Both perfectly legal and (what I think is the key point) in the latter case the people who worked to produce the stuff you're so eager to consume get some kind of compensation.

But you go the third way and choose to watch a pirated copy - that's up to you, but please don't tell anybody you're "forced" to do that.