Whenever I rent a movie off iTunes, it will fail 2GB in complaining about data corruption. Then it restarts the download. A younger naive me used to give it a 2nd&#x2F;3rd chance to complete the download but now I turn to torrents with the justification that I already bought the right to watch it.<p>Netflix&#x2F;Hulu&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Youtube is very reliable and high quality but their library is lacking. It&#x27;s a shame they don&#x27;t seem to have the selection Apple does. Compared to any of their libraries, Amazon Instant is more of a bookshelf so I haven&#x27;t given its streaming reliability a shot yet.<p>My roommate&#x27;s family has HBO, so he has an account to watch HBO. But instead we torrent Game of Thrones every Sunday because the video quality is better and there&#x27;s no risk of buffering interruptions. It&#x27;s annoying enough for me but this is becoming a small social event and I would gladly pay $5-10 (or I guess break the law) for a guaranteed quality viewing experience for guests.<p>There really is no legal equivalent to torrents in terms of selection or quality. If there was I would pay for it, like I do for music.