Netflix is already seriously less useful than it was a few years ago now that more and more copyright holders are pulling their content and starting their own streaming services...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pledge_(film)
(There’s two DVD rips listed by the indexer I use but neither of them is the complete film, and no streaming service has it.)
(I know, I know, it's one of their least 'significant' movies -- but IMO it's their most fun and watchable one).
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/60004419
I found it using this:
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/search?q=The%20Pledge&content_t...
(This appears to be a recent change by Netflix where they list movies that can’t actually be viewed. Another example of a movie listed by Netflix but not viewable there is the documentary “The Wrecking Crew” - https://www.netflix.com/title/70105364)
This movie really doesn’t seem to be legally streamable. I found a supposed Bluray rip of it via TPB, and an HN reader emailed me links to a couple very poor quality DVD rips on various sketchy web sites, and there’s some even worse quality CD sized rips on Usenet. The physical media is no longer for sale, and I’m not sure it was ever released to BR, the torrent I found (and still transferring) notwithstanding.
piracy is currently the most convenient way to consume content now that all the streaming services/labels want to fragment their libraries
I guess for someone starting from scratch, "what streaming service(s) should I should I subscribe to?" might be a difficult and paralyzing question to the point that the answer might be, "who knows, screw it, I'll just pirate everything".
I'm not sure. A friend watches shows on a pirate streaming site, even though they are available for free (but add supported, not that this matters with addblock) on a legal streaming site. It's just easier to always first check the site that always has the desired content available for that particular target audience than some try and error or even an additional google search.
But context matters. If you pay for a subscription, wanting to get the most "value" out of that makes sense psychologically (just like the other mindset... "already payed for that, who cares where i watch"). Also if you already got the necessary subscriptions and google always directly leads you to the latest weekly episode, starting there doesn't make a difference. One that's not the case (e.g. you can only watch ever other show an the high sea)... well, having to repeat the search on more than one site would certainly be more effort.
good thing there are piracy streaming sites with all the content then :p
all the properly licensed streaming services are about as and a little more convenient than 2004's piracy-scene was for me
the licensed music scene is top notch for me between soundcloud, shazam and spotify
just need to let youtube know that youtube music is never going to happen, and let the other guys know not to mess their things up
for music I only pay for spotify
and if spotify messes up in the availability, I rip the same song from youtube in HD and put it in my spotify library