[f1refly]

He stole nothing, he merely copied. The abundant streaming options are abusive and leave the "customer" without rights and without options. This is normal, tolerable practice. A lot of people here on hackernews would make just the same, as unpermitted copying has been shown to have an unnoticable, if not positive effect on movie payoff.

[mousepilot]

I think as long as people can't recognise theft of publishing rights, it will be difficult to have any sort of sensible conversation about it.