A lot of people have posted a variation of "now that movies and TV shows are spread across a lot of streaming services, everyone is going back to piracy".

What this shows is that, for most people, Netflix is little more than an aggregator. People aren't paying for the movies, they are paying for the convenience of finding them easily.

This is interesting because, "technically", a big part of these services is the "intellectual property", the _right_ to watch those things.

But people don't really think in those terms. Society doesn't work like that. They are concerned with the _means_ to watch those things. Even people that have internalized the propaganda that "piracy is bad" (it's not) don't think of their Netflix subscription as a "license" to watch movies, it's just a delivery mechanism for movies.

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I was thinking there will be an aggregator of streaming services and it'll cost the same as cable tv. I pay for Netflix but pirate the odd show from another service if a friends keeps talking about it. @eldaking

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