Netflix and Co are the startup of the online media, the traditional players are torrent, p2p, direct download, newsgroup, ... It is akin to Blackberry deciding

Netflix and Co are the startup of the online media, the traditional players are torrent, p2p, direct download, newsgroup, ... It is akin to Blackberry deciding to stop selling phone in your country, and you would suggest that instead of buying Android or iOS as they have done the last 7 years, user should just stop using smartphone instead ? That is sad that the big player is the illegal activity, but think of it this way: the content has been available online for at least a decade before it was distributed legally. And yet despite coming late to the market, charging money, with the backing of actual media companies, Netflix choice is pitiful about everywhere in the world except in the US and is still in many ways inferior to the alternative ( subtitles, release date, quality ). Netflix market is to convince people that are watching illegal movies, to pay for the insurance that they won't get sued. People that would not watch a show until it is available legally are people like me. We have waited so long that we don't even want it anymore, not legal, not illegal, not at all, the craving to see something is just gone, it has been years since I felt awkward with the movie talk at the coffee machine, so not even the social pressure it there anymore ( Just to illustrate, I have been an Amazon Prime member since the beginning, and I have watched maybe 5 movies on it )