[jancsika]

> "subscribing is not an option because even though this paid service does exactly what I want now at a price that is trivial for me they might someday later change"

Gonna gamble and call bullshit on this.

My speculation: the most popular reason HN'ers give for pirating: they literally cannot get the content otherwise.

2nd most popular: it is such a pain to either to purchase the content or get it to run on bog standard software (like Firefox/Linux/etc.) that otherwise paying fans are driven to whatever the current equivalent is for bittorrent.

In fact, I don't believe I've ever seen a justification for using bittorrent or whatever due to what someone's favorite streaming service might do in the future. I'm assuming you saw at least one based on what you wrote-- care to give a link?