If there is anything that is entitled to be sold in a profit-maximizing manner it’s copyrighted content. We’re not talking about a public good, or monopolizing a pre-existing thing. If Marvel (or some other company) didn’t make Avengers, it wouldn’t exist in the universe. Nor are we talking about something essential, like food, or housing, or medicine. If you don’t watch Avengers, you’re fine. Any rationalization for consuming the benefit without paying the desired price is entitled nonsense.
*you've added more to your post now.
> If you don’t like the terms on which people have offered their work, by all means, take your business elsewhere. There’s literally nothing stopping you from instead consuming the work of indie artists and producers who choose to make their work available more widely.
I've not done any of those things though. You're assuming a lot. I pirate in cases where availability is not possible.
I certainly agree that pirating indie stuff (especially when you can afford it and like it) is a big no-no. Indie films are massively hard to get off the ground in Australia.
Not that I'm helping. As I said, Film/TV is not a concentrated hobby for me. It's burntime that I can fill with other stuff, hence no real need to keep a sub if it's not giving me much, and no real drive to pirate even ignoring the moral reasons.
That's a very disingenuous reply. GP obviously meant suggesting you will return to piracy makes you a degenerate.
He's added more meat to the comment now, and I've replied to that.
I’m addressing your use of “convenience” in “convenience and availability.”
It's less relevant to netflix perhaps. Because its more binary for me on Netflix. If its available on there I watch it. If it isn't I see where it is, if its too pricey I don't watch it.
Indie stuff is a different kettle of fish. I tend to buy direct from them. I've managed to pick up a fair swag of CDs and DVDs that I can't play because I don't even have a CD or DVD player on my PC.