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Your assumption of the average consumer’s technical chops and desires isn’t realistic. Pirating anything is not as convenient as paying $7/mo.

The majority of outcomes here are either they pay the fee and get ads, pay the higher fee and don’t get ads, or don’t pay and don’t watch. It’s not a pirate or don’t pirate discussion for most of the world.

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A large percentage of the world pirates. If you can't learn how or find someone to teach you, when the benefits are clear, then you deserve to pay and suffer through ads.

I sincerely doubt a large percentage of the world has the technical know-how to pirate.

Watching cracked streams is akin to trading endpoint security for the latest GOTR episode, too.

I mostly agree with you, with one clarification that you don’t personally need to know how piracy works to benefit from it.

Piracy is very common outside of the US. In the US piracy is an individual decision, you pick your storage and tools yourself. Other places it’s trivially easy to find someone selling pirated media in local markets.

Piracy isn't just a "nerd" thing, I literally saw EVERY sibling and classmate doing it growing up because they had no money. Using these sites is not rocket science, they're designed to be usable by the average person, they just have to click through 6 ads on the way to their video.

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