And I just did that for Avengers on my iPad. The first result takes me to:

- 5Movies4Free -- which then redirects me

- mobilevpn.download -- and then when I click on "Install and Register Now". It redirects me to

-"app.appsflyer.com" which then

- redirects me to the app store

- and then it just hangs

Is that really the user experience that people want as opposed to just paying $8 a month and they can stream movies to 4 devices, download on mobile so they don't have to worry about poor connectivity and they can stream to almost any device?

Not to mention your solution not only requires them to wade through shady sites, but they also would have to have a computer connected to their TV.

In the US, Apple has close to half the mobile phone market and a much larger share of the market of middle and upper income households. Do you think that people who are willing to pay Apple prices for hardware will even blink at signing up for Disney+ and Netflix instead of going through all of these contortions?

Edit: I forgot to mention that every major cellular carrier and MetroPCS (a sub brand of T-mobile) is bundling at least one streaming option as part of their family plan - except for Verizon.

Edit 2: I would have never gone through the entire process on my computer, too much of a risk of drive by downloads. I knew that it probably wouldn't do too much damage on iOS.

Agree with you. The only consistent experience for me is BitTorrent. But trying to google watching a movie for free? Does someone actually do that? It's always hundreds of popup, fake links, fake ads, and can never really get to the actual content.

Bit Torrent “consistent”? Having to worry about the quality of rips, whether there is a complete seed, titled correctly, has the right language, hard coded subtitles in another language, etc?

This is somehow more convenient than just paying $8 a month?

Even then, I would still need to pay for a VPN and no VPN provider provides the bandwidth to keep up with my gigabit internet.

You're doing it wrong. See my counterpoint elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008979.

And that didn't work on my iPhone or iPad. But I was going by the suggestion that the parent poster made -- just search Google.

Streaming sites with good SEO tend to be the riskest in terms of malware though.

Actually adding on to that, the timing of this piracy boom is really unfortunate, as the cryptoboom made it advantagous again to target home computers with malware for cryptominers. It's frustrating having to go setup shit like sandboxie for pirated software again like it's the early 2000s