I have no doubt that one, or even thousand of seniors are pirating the latest movies. I’m not saying that people don’t pirate stuff.

But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier and DRM made legal options unusable, they wouldn’t.

DRM sucks, but Netflix isn’t going out of business any time soon

"But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier.."

I am willing to bet there are more than 500 million people pirating, so I don't think this argument carries much weight. Netflix is a very 'rich western country' thing. The rest of the world exists.

The media industry cares about piracy in as much as they care about making money from their customers. Preventing some dude in the middle of Asia buying a Disney DVD from the street market in a country where Disney+ isn't even offered is not affecting their bottom line.

The rest of the world exists but that doesn't mean they were going to be paying customers anyway.

> But Netflix has 213 million users

Nitpicking, but Netflix has 213 millions subscribers, not users.

We don't know how many of them are active or how many people are using them.

We simply know they paid one time.

I’ll phrase it another way: in 2020, some number of people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix 25 billion dollars instead of pirating movies.

Let's look at it from another perspective: in 2020 people collectively decided it was easier to send Netflix $25 billion instead of other forms of entertainment (cinemas, theaters, concert halls, stadium, etc were closed)

Pirating skyrocketed as well during 2020

The two things are not adversaries as much as one might think

Theatrical releases on streaming services have helped piracy, now you can download a movie mere days after it came out and the quality is gonna be perfect.

> More people are pirating movies during the coronavirus lockdown During the last seven days of March, there was a 43% spike in Americans visiting sites that pirate movies compared with the last seven days of February. Italy, which went under lockdown orders on March 9, saw visits to piracy sites spike 66%

How do those spikes compare to the spikes on sites that you believe to be non-infringing?

I don't know.

If you know more, I'm curious to listen.

It's not because it's easier. People could park in no parking zones, it would be easier, they don't because they've made a moral and/or financial judgement.

Because people care about the entire experience.