I'm sorry but this is upside down on every point. 1) Netflix UX is perfectly fine. You see the film, you click play - that's it. There is no argument to be ma

I'm sorry but this is upside down on every point. 1) Netflix UX is perfectly fine. You see the film, you click play - that's it. There is no argument to be made that a) it's bad or b) pirate.com couldn't duplicate it. The business model fluctuates but they and Disney+ will eke out a profit - but only because of anti-piracy. 2) "Why would it? Blockbusters/Pop" - it's completely glib to suggest that investors would back films with $100M price tags (or any price tag) if the films were available at 'pirate.com' for free, at any time. 3) "If you can't provide better service that a random project that can't even get funds legally, what does it tell about your business?" I don't think you're grasping the premise here: the 'cost' of the business is mostly the cost of content. Netflix has to pay for content, 'pirate.com' does not. It's a total misunderstanding of the economics to suggest that Netflix should be able to 'compete with pirate.com or die'. Getting Mp3s from iTunes was highly convenient - people preferred to not pay and so, the market for Mp3 evaporated, much like the market for films would evaporate. 4) "So fine that without tax payers money they go broke." Again, a complete misunderstanding of the analogy: markets for physical goods work mostly fine - your arguments about 'subsidies for milk' are completely besides the point. The point is: if physical goods could all be arbitrarily stolen, even at no cost to the producer, there would be no sales, and therefore no business. DRM enables content business to exist, otherwise, for the most part they would not. 5) "Non violent civil disobedience vs abstract entities" And there it is: it's ok to steal stuff because 'Social Justice'! You're just protecting yours and other people's rights! This is actually the moral flatulence at the heart of the argument, and it exemplifies the ridiculous hoops people will jump through to justify it. In IP culture, it's a theft of sorts, it's not the end of the world, but it is the end of content if there are no regs there. As far as we know - there are zero economies that product good content without some form of IP regs - until someone comes along and proves otherwise, this is roughly how we need to do it. Hopefully the EU will not lose their marbles over it.