The trouble is that currently there is no reasonable amount of money you can give to receive such a nice and user friendly experience as what you get with torrent sites (even more so with the popcorn app).<p>Usually when one deals with black markets you get much worse user experience, where there is no guarantee of quality, no economy of scale effects, no standardisation. Everything is less pleasant, but you get to have your stuff cheaper than buying it officially.<p>The paradox here is you get a bad user experience AND you pay for it. That&#x27;s what I find appalling. Almost nobody who holds the contracts for these movies comes from &quot;what value can we bring to the customer&quot; point of view (well maybe with the exception of Netflix). Everybody does the &quot;how much we can fleece the poor stupid people&quot; approach, and it shows.<p>Pirate solutions tend to compete on user experience ONLY, and there you can get a real honest competition.