Widevine hasn't stopped piracy. No DRM ever does. It only inconveniences the people who want to pay. Trying to watch Netflix on a phone or desktop is needlessly complicated. Grabbing a torrent is easy.
Download the app, sign in and it works.
Piracy has significantly reduced because it's more convenient than torrents.
Don't know what you're talking about.
On desktop you have to use the windows 10 app- again solely because of DRM.
Open on Linux in Firefox, get 360p max.
Can't deal with bad network conditions such as frackin' Unitymedia where the connection is slow and resets all the time.
In the end, I pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime, but pirate the movies that are on Netflix anyway.
Meanwhile I can get high quality streams in an anime streaming service called Crunchyroll in all my devices (including every browser in any OS I want), most because they don't care about DRM.
: It is interesting that for default they still require Flash for viewing video browsers (they have a HTML5 video player in beta, though). To think that HTML5 reduced our freedom compared to Flash is ironic, to say at least.
DRM hurts honest consumers and doesn't prevent piracy — at all. So why are we being pushed to accept this level of outside control over our computing devices?
It really bothers me how rarely the average person I interact with seems to comprehend this. It isn't about stopping piracy. It's about controlling how you do things so that content can be part and parceled up for maximum profit while collecting analytics. Or in the case of devices, to tie you to a specific distribution platform while collecting analytics. Referring to it as "stopping piracy" is just an easier way to sell it - it's the equivalent of lawmakers saying "think of the children".
1. Netflix,
2. Amazon Prime
3. HotStar
Even with 3 subscriptions one or the other show that I like is not provided by any one of the above. So torrent it is.