[jprete]

I think you're arguing in good faith, so my response is that I think the legal-piracy world would make it very easy to download things, on par with going to YouTube, something anyone could and would do. I don't think Netflix would be the same in that world. They might well have been the premiere free movie distributors!

[Kim_Bruning]

We have an internet. It was and is already very easy to download things, legally or not [1] . That's why speculating about legalization making piracy easier misses the point - it's already as easy as it can get.

Netflix just made it that much easier to find what you want[2] and just watch it. People were and are willing to pay for that.

[1] for movies and other large files you can use a torrent tracking site: type what you want, click the result with most seeds, download, play.

[2] Not necessarily as easy as it used to be a few years ago. So piracy is going back up.