But I'll admit sometimes they try really hard to make a pirate out of us by brilliant moves like making 2 out of three LOTR movies available on Netflix or sending all except one single episode of a season of Deadliest Catch on my cable subscription.
Maybe one day I'll start downloading too thought, but usually I don't care and don't have time for movies anyway.
That being said, we do have Netflix free through T-mobile, Hulu mostly for my sons, Amazon Prime, and DC Universe for the few originals and the comics.
We also have DirecTVNow mostly for my wife.
Do you consider libraries to be facilitating piracy? If not, how do Causality1's examples differ?
But instead they check out the copies they’ve paid for OR are in some kind of paid arrangement with a streaming service.
In our age, these are values you cannot really find anywhere.
I would consider private data intellectual property and it is taken on every opportunity.
Not saying it is the right thing to do, but here we are.
Would anyone loose anything if instead of something else you ended up pirating the movie that you wanted to watch?
This aspect is often overlooked when people analyze the impact of piracy. People just look at the sales of the seller of the pirated item, and so if it costs $X and $X is more than I am willing to spend, my pirating won't cost them a sale because there was no scenario in which I was going to buy, and so no harm was done to that seller.
But in the case of entertainment products, if piracy is not available I'm probably not going to simply forego entertainment. I'll instead look for something that is within my budget and entertain myself with that instead.