…I’ll sleep on your couch and do dishes…I can be cajoled into cooking as well.

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Because we can. I pay $120 per month for cable. This includes HD channels, movie channels, HBO, etc and isn’t cheap. I still prefer to use a torrent site though. It’s just so much more convenient. If the copyright industry decided to offer a comparable subscription service that included everything I get with all that for a reasonable monthly fee, I’d happily subscribe to it instead of cable. I don’t want to have to mess with constantly tracking TV shows, movies and whatnot, nor recording timers and slow, poorly designed PVR menus that only show what’s available over the next four days. I just want to be able to click a link and watch/listen with almost zero effort. The problem is that if you don’t live in the USA (which I don’t) you’re pretty much out of luck. Oh I could subscribe to Netflix which is the only half decent service available here, but it’s a pale shadow of the one in America, which itself is a pale shadow of what such a service should include and be like. Until the industry gets their collective heads out of their asses, I’ll continue to use what I feel is easiest and most convenient. However if they continue their hateful attacks on our civil liberties, I may just ditch my cable subscription and switch to torrents exclusively. Screw me? Go ahead, but know I’ll just screw you right back. It’s simply a matter of supply and demand. Welcome to the free market where the consumer has all the power, exactly as it should be.