[driverdan]

> Do people flock to torrents? No one I know does.

Who do you know? I estimate 80-90% of the people I know who are technical download "pirated" movies via torrents or usenet. Most also use paid services like Netflix and Amazon Prime but the content on those networks sucks.

[scott_s]

A mix of technical and non-technical people. The technical people I know have basically the same attitude as me: it's not worth the hassle during our free time.

[yuriks]

My mother gets all her TV from TPB and she's really not technically skilled at all. When it went down this week she asked me for an alternate place to download from.

[lttlrck]

"pirated"? Is there any doubt?

[driverdan]

I put it in quotes because I don't particularly like the term. Real piracy involves theft, downloading a digital copy of something you wouldn't pay for otherwise is not theft.