I used to pay for netflix in the US and access it with a VPN when I was living in China (a country where most content is only available through pirating). I did this both for convenience and because I wanted to pay for the content I was consuming.
But eventually I got tired of having to jump through hoops because of region locking and other inane rules decided by the MPAA and equivalent. I'm now in France, Netflix has a rather poor catalogue (I joined this month to check it out), The Master for example is not available (and I don't know any easy way to stream it).
So, instead of bothering to jump through hoops, I just download it on Bittorrent. It's quick, it's easy and it saves me time. It's also more confortable using Mplayer or Plex to play a video than any of the streaming website players.
When you say that 25-30k people torrent the movie, I'm sure there's a lot of people in my case. And excluding the foreign language versions won't help because a lot of people in Europe download the original version.
But eventually I got tired of having to jump through hoops because of region locking and other inane rules decided by the MPAA and equivalent. I'm now in France, Netflix has a rather poor catalogue (I joined this month to check it out), The Master for example is not available (and I don't know any easy way to stream it).
So, instead of bothering to jump through hoops, I just download it on Bittorrent. It's quick, it's easy and it saves me time. It's also more confortable using Mplayer or Plex to play a video than any of the streaming website players.
When you say that 25-30k people torrent the movie, I'm sure there's a lot of people in my case. And excluding the foreign language versions won't help because a lot of people in Europe download the original version.