unfortunately, Warner Bros made the dumb decision of not only staggering regional theatrical release dates, but also making it available on streaming platforms ahead of a big chunk of it's theatrical openings. As a consequence I'd already (illegally) seen a lovely 1080p rip of it on my 49" 4k TV a week before it released in cinemas where I am.
I think the fact that it's convenient for you to pirate a film like Dune highlights just how bad streaming services had gotten.
In a way streaming services are the very thing they swore to destroy, which was killing off the need to use cable/piracy when you could pay for something so convenient, so cheap and easy that it would be more of a hassle to pirate or subcribe to multiple different cable plans just for a few good channels.
But alas Netflix lost it's way a decade later, it's forgotten it's roots and isn't the same "Netflix" that killed the legendary (almost mythical/unheard of on people now, blockbuster).
For we unfortunately no longer live in the early 2010's when subbing to Netflix and Hulu was all you needed to get all of the content, now there are 5+ streaming services that you gotta get to watch most content you would have seen on Netflix just a couple of years ago.
I'd even argue it's getting to the point now that it's cheaper to find a good vpn to torrent everything as opposed to paying multiple services to make the monthly bill be as tolling as cable once was.
and when a good chunk of the user-base subscribed to Netflix only because, (again it was more convenient), will only make them or other people resort back to either pirating or some other ways then streaming.
To quote the overused (but imo correct) saying in these general discussions about internet piracy:
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gabe Newell.
If Hollywood wants people to stop pirating and consume media legally then they have to go back on providing a service that is convenient if not better then what *said pirates are offering at a price that's generally acceptable by most consumers.
Because otherwise yelling about how "morally superior" it is and banging the war-drum to be against piracy won't help the industry at all, they've been doing that
FOR 20+ GODDAMN YEARS and internet piracy still hasn't gone away and never will go away in the slightest.
and it sure won't convince pirates who will find it incredibly annoying instead.
Maybe this wasn't your specific point or discussion in your last post but I thought that I'd be something to at least point out fully at least as to why people pirate over paying legally in general and in the specific case of steaming vs piracy.
