[rhino369]

Because Amazon Video and Itunes have a huge selection and people won't want to pay 3 dollars a movie or 2 dollars a show.

In fact I recently had to use Amazon video instead of torrent because amazon had what I was looking for and torrents didn't.

If the parents position is that he literally needs everything in one or he'll never leave, it's an unreasonable demand. No business or service will ever have 100%. Not even torrents.

[Spivak]

Look, I don't care about your moral/ethical feelings toward piracy, but one would be completely irrational to not pirate content because $1/$2 a show is a completely ridiculous price and doesn't not in any way reflect it's true value.

Let's assume that we're talking about a show which is an hour long. Which means we're paying $2 per hour.

Netflix charges $8/month with the average usage of 2.4 hours a day in the US which comes out to $0.11/hour. More aggressive users looking to completely replace TV can average 4/5 hours a day knocking the price down $0.05/hour. And a household of three with different preferences can effectively triple that getting us down to $0.04/hour if they're casual users or $0.02/hour if they're aggressive.

Torrenting costs more in time than $0.05/hour so it's no surprise that people are willing to pay for it.

If torrenting is to be defeated it will require cooperation and a realistic view of what content is actually worth to people.

[icebraining]

Amazon Video exists in only five countries in the world; most of us don't have access to it. And iTunes only has TV shows in a dozen countries as well.