>There was a time when downloading movies took hours, or even days. Nowadays, you can stream via popcorn time for basically free¹.

And a willingness to steal...

For the record, argument was of declining distribution costs for content you presumably have the right to share, e.g. created yourself.

Copyright infringement isn't theft.

Illegal copying? Call it what you will, if you had paid for the Dark Knight, WB would get $5. Instead they get $0.

It's illegal and if everyone did it, movies would not exist.

If everyone that would have paid pirates a movie then the movie industry collapses.

If everyone that wouldn't have paid pirates a movie then nothing bad happens and people enjoy things.

Arguing one of those facts while ignoring the other one is a mark of a bad argument.

If everyone took the bus the car industry would also collapse. But if buses didn't exist people might take the train instead.

You can't just assume that people that don't use your service would be paying customers if a specific alternative wasn't there.