&gt;Nobody deserves to have their hard work stolen<p>First off, it&#x27;s not theft, it&#x27;s copyright infringement.  No one&#x27;s stealing their content, because the copyright holders still have it.  Stealing is wrong because it deprives the owner of the use of that thing: if I steal your car, then you can&#x27;t drive to work any more.  If I sneakily scan your car with a tricorder and 3D-print a clone of it, you still have your car.<p>Semantics aside, I completely disagree about them deserving to have their hard work copied and not getting paid for it.  They absolutely do deserve this.  If someone works hard on some piece of art (music, movie, etc.) and makes it conveniently available to everyone at the same fair price, then I think they deserve to get paid for it.  But if they&#x27;re dicks and they use their dominant position and inertia to promote their works and make them popular and culturally relevant, but then they only make them available to some people and not to others because they&#x27;re trying to figure out unethical ways of gaming the system to make more money, then fuck &#x27;em.  People in other regions where this stuff isn&#x27;t available have <i>every</i> right to copy it without paying.<p>These copyright holders have been bitching for many years about &quot;piracy&quot;.  Then along came the iTunes Store, Netflix, etc., and they <i>proved</i> that people are willing to pay for this stuff as long as it&#x27;s a fair price and is convenient.  Now they want to dick with it, so predictably, people are going back to piracy.  Personally, I&#x27;d rather not bother with piracy: it&#x27;s a PITA to use BitTorrent, try to find good versions of stuff, hope there&#x27;s enough seeders out there, wait forever for it to download (not a problem if it&#x27;s extremely popular that day, but a big problem if it&#x27;s not), etc.  I&#x27;d much rather pay $8&#x2F;month for Netflix and just select what I want to see, hit &quot;play&quot; and watch it.  But if the copyright holders are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, then oh well...