[SSLy]

>All you have to do is be behind the "new releases" by a month or two and wait a few minutes for the downloads to complete, but that's a minor issue.

Well, even that can be a non-issue if you have access to the better indexers, be it P2P or Usenet.

[close04]

I pay subscriptions to services like Netflix and Amazon Prime and still end up downloading lots of the same stuff from... alternative sources simply due to the convenience that confers.

Anything bad that happens to the companies or entities that are responsible for shoving this crap down customers' throats is their doing alone.