The price hikes from both and unacceptable and I don't need to keep paying those prices. Even if they crack down on piracy, which is impossible, I'll still find a better way than paying $20/month for Netflix that I almost never watch.
That's the thing, in the past I I'd go months without watching anything on Netflix yet still pay them for it, so they were essentially getting a free $8 a month (or whatever) off me during that time.
Now the prices have gone up so much it doesn't make sense to keep subscribed for something I'm barely using, just so I can easily watch a single show that interests me once every three months or so.
The only streaming service that has makes some sense for me to pay for right now is Youtube's, since that's my goto for videos anyway, and it's nice not to have ads for those.
Additionally they also have a bunch of great older movies free to watch movies on Youtube, probably a better selection (of movies I care about) than Netflix right now (saw/rewatched Train to Busan, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tropic Thunder, Fifth Element, Big Trouble in Little China, Dr. Strangelove, 12 Angry Men, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Truman Show, Air Force One, Dirty Work, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It recently).
If you follow the torrentfreak blog you can see that anti-piracy forces really do make big moves. They are capable of passing laws internationally, international enforcement, dictating the technology in our devices.
So far things have worked out in favor of Pirates, but every year another piece of the cage is created, from device attestation, secure enclaves for decryption keys, infiltrating and busting piracy groups, shutting down the latest applications that people use, etc.