By providing a better service. Not by combatting the pirates in a technological arms race. Incidentally, movie/TV piracy is on the rise again as streaming has become more fragmented and more expensive.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/25/streaming-video-piracy/#:~:te...

Netflix with account sharing has perhaps killed Torrents, which to me doesn't seem that different. People I know went from free torrents to free Netflix (or a "ok I'll pay your beer for letting me use your Netflix"). Now account sharing is out, Torrents will increase again.

Torrenting is on the rise again since the golden era of streaming where Netflix gave you access to everything has ended.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/digital-cont...

Torrenting isn't dead and Spotify came years after the various lawsuits that killed Napster.

Netflix had the chance to become the Steam of Movies, effectively killing piracy in the field, however between every company creating their own streaming service and hiking prices, my (admittedly anecdotal) impression is that some people are going back to pirating at least some of the time.

> Netflix killed Torrents.

Not really.

There is like a decade between Napster ending and Spotify launching. No, it's iTunes that killed mp3 pirating, Spotify killed what was left of it plus optical media.

Netflix may have dampened torrents at some point, but boy are those making a comeback with the splintered enshittifcation prone streaming world we live in.

Torrents are back big-time because Netflix became too annoying and video streaming too fragmented.

https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-continues-to-rise-wit...

https://torrentfreak.com/sharp-rise-in-piracy-rates-across-s...

Torrents never left. I've had no issue over the last 15 years with either torrents or newsgroups, everything's just as accessible and quickly released as it was then.