[3pt14159]

I'm only happy that there is filesharing because the industry still hasn't figured out how to get me to pay without friction sometimes. Americans have it much easier than those of us in the rest of the world (even in Canada!) and frequently the only way of getting a movie at all, let alone with subtitles in the language that you need it in, is to pirate.

Once someone API-ifies licensing so content creators are easily paid, works easily translated (with a reasonable cut going to the translator!), without any close source blobs to render the content, then of course I'll pick up the pitchforks against TPB, but in the mean time the industry is a mess. My girfriend and I pay for Netflix and Apple music and the occasional film, and HBO, and I pay $40 a month in support on Patreon, but it's death with a thousand cuts right now and TPB is a nice safety valve.