> illegally downloaded movies posted money to the studios who created the content directly, then this problem would disappear pretty much overnight

So if you cannot get something legally easily, you should support that practice and suddenly you'll get it more easily in future? This in a post about an article where Disney is making it more difficult to get content legally? Really?

>This is seductive, easy, and the wrong way to go for most things.

Perhaps that's why people don't think that for other things, but constrain that argument to digital distribution.

Note that the other way (accept whatever meagre or exorbitant distribution deals the content owner wants or stay without content) also has big issues, especially if one believes movies, music, books, etc are essential to culture.

I'm discussing the product and service, no interest in moral or legal judgements.

Took a while to find an example of someone treating availability of other people's work on their own terms as a human right but here we are.

Just trying to look at things from the perspective of an average idiot who doesn't think too hard beyond "want X now"

It needs to be easy as possible to let this person buy things

Maybe you have some insight