The content providers cannot do enough to push their subscribers to steal content. Meaning, finding unlicensed sources for their material. I have been frustrated by years of diminishing content for the base subscription levels of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.
At this point, their offerings are a joke. If you pay the base level, you no longer have access to any relevant content. The last six months, any movie search on Netflix or Hulu returns "Titles related to..." and presents me with a bunch of unrelated nonsense, while taunting me that I could watch my movie if I subscribe to their $40/mo service.
Fuck that. It's faster for me to go to well known content download sites and get the torrent in 18 minutes rather than scour Netflix or Hulu for a title on a Friday night they don't offer at my subscription level. It's the greed and shrinking catalogue that drives me to say fuck it, and download the shit. It's not the price, its the principle that these providers were supposed to crush the cable company's stranglehold and obnoxious channel packaging by giving us a la carte service, and damn if they didn't do the exact same thing to us. Fucking bait and switch.
So, that's why I and probably many others, resigned ourselves to downloading/streaming the shit because it's just easier than fighting the the New Content Providers, who have shown their absolute contempt for their subscribers, current and potential.