It's not all the same people, though. I mean, maybe within HN/the tech community it's the same people, but I know plenty of people who didn't regularly pirate T

It's not all the same people, though. I mean, maybe within HN/the tech community it's the same people, but I know plenty of people who didn't regularly pirate TV (if at all) but who now watch the large majority of their TV content through Hulu/Netflix. Maybe it's a Northern California "no I don't have cable TV, puhleeze... but I secretly watch a ton of it online!" thing, I don't know, but I'm often surprised to visit a non-tech-minded friend for the first time in years, and see that they have a Netflix-enabled Blu-Ray player or HDTV, Hulu loaded up on their laptop, and no cable service in sight.