Despite being strongly motivated to find and watch things that are inexplicably unavailable to me (especially new foreign cinema) I usually just wait, and then sign up for a trial of whatever service has it a year or more after I read the review.
Only if you want rare and older stuff (and even then, only sometimes). Anything mainstream, a public tracker is more than enough.
I have a significant legitimate media library (>1TB), I have the Plex/Kodi infrastructure to stream it to my TV, but going one step further and mixing in piracy is a step I'm not willing to take.
As I said in another post, I like to pay when given the option and I don’t have to jump through tons of hoops.
I dont know now that we signed the TPP11 how things are going to change.
you can then just set the seedbox as a source in kodi, I can even add torrents while sitting on my couch on my phone with the mobile interface
I have shared accounts to a variety of streaming services that I pay for but I largely prefer using kodi as it's a much more pleasant experience
It's (almost) as easy as looking something up on youtube.
Why would "normal" people muck about with torrent software? I think it's mostly the groups doing (and monetizing) the re-uploads that bother with torrents