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I think that people who are happy to watch only the content available on Amazon/Netflix, are not the people whose behavior you want to change. So your case study is IMO starting with flawed assumptions (that people who are content with existing streaming services still pirate content).



I'm not assuming that. I'm asking why people who have access to extremely affordable streaming services but who choose to torrent anyway do so. Why should the creators of film X be penalized for the unavailability of film Y on a streaming service by people who are downloading film X?

I mean, I get that people would like a streaming service that had every film that ever existed available instantly, but there isn't any way to force such a thing to come into existence without essentially forcing everyone to license their work to it, and while it doesn't exist some people are always going to cite it as an excuse not to pay for anything that is easily available. And again, my original question was what you would expect someone in the MPAA to do on behalf of users.


> why people who have access to extremely affordable streaming services but who choose to torrent anyway do so.

I think the only real answer here is unavailability of content in a sufficiently convenient/appealing form. But you've already written off unavailability of content as a reason you want to deal with, so I don't think there are any remaining answers for you.




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