[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.