Look, I don&#x27;t care about your moral&#x2F;ethical feelings toward piracy, but one would be completely irrational to <i>not</i> pirate content because $1&#x2F;$2 a show is a completely ridiculous price and doesn&#x27;t not in any way reflect it&#x27;s true value.<p>Let&#x27;s assume that we&#x27;re talking about a show which is an hour long. Which means we&#x27;re paying $2 per hour.<p>Netflix charges $8&#x2F;month with the average usage of 2.4 hours a day in the US which comes out to $0.11&#x2F;hour. More aggressive users looking to completely replace TV can average 4&#x2F;5 hours a day knocking the price down $0.05&#x2F;hour. And a household of three with different preferences can effectively triple that getting us down to $0.04&#x2F;hour if they&#x27;re casual users or $0.02&#x2F;hour if they&#x27;re aggressive.<p>Torrenting costs more in time than $0.05&#x2F;hour so it&#x27;s no surprise that people are willing to pay for it.<p>If torrenting is to be defeated it will require cooperation and a realistic view of what content is actually worth to people.