Piracy has always been about the balance between price and convenience. Since Netflix can't produce Game of Thrones, and HBO can't produce Stranger Things, they

Piracy has always been about the balance between price and convenience. Since Netflix can't produce Game of Thrones, and HBO can't produce Stranger Things, they experience no real competition in regards to _product_. They are selling you convenience under the guise of a product. If you want to watch a show, you have one place you can find it (in the scope of streaming, sure you can spring $20 a season on amazon, but there is a reason the streaming industry exists in the first place). This is where piracy steps in, it provides competition on _product_ under the guise of _convenience_.