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A laborer is worth his wage. Even if no one is still making money from this or that particular content you're watching, a streaming service like Netflix will use the revenue from subscriptions to continue to produce new shows or movies. This creates fairly-paid jobs for actors, writers, producers, and all manner of supporting staff, including the teams that maintain the internet infrastructure that helps us access this content.

It's best for the common good to pay a fair price for media and convenient streaming, rather than torrenting it.

If you want to own digital media, buy a copy outright (such as on DVD), and you can do with it as you please, within reasonable limits.
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a source familiar with the matter 1y ago

If you pirate the movie, who does any additional work besides yourself?

It's not like you're kidnapping the actors and forcing them to re-enact everything. The actors are not inside the tiny box. They're off enjoying their lives and won't even know that you made them perform this film an extra time.

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MichaelJ 1y ago

As I said, it's not only the actors who are benefitting from the purchase or rental of the media. It is also any number of other individuals who support the distribution of the media.

If a company has reasonably acquired the legal rights to distribute a piece of media, then the individual ought to respect that legal right and pay a reasonable price for that distribution, provided he individual doesn't already own a legally-acquired copy of that media.