Here’s the thing. You’re one of those hate reboots, sequels, spin offs, and complain there’s nothing original types, right?
If you pirate, you’re part of the problem. Studios watch p2p and torrent sites, they know when stuff is pirated. What they don’t do is look at that and say— “oh people don’t want to pay for this, let’s do something original.” What they do, is say, “Oh, let’s just do something that has a prebuilt audience cause it’s got a proven financial model we can bank on.”
It may not work, it may not be sound, but that’s how it goes. You can think you’re sticking it to the man, but really, you’re sticking it to the below the line talent that doesn’t have a job on the next production because the studios take less chances and make fewer movies.
Also, don’t kid yourself. You’re stealing. And if you were the victim of a theft you wouldn’t think it’s cool.
Discovery is not winning me over, and using it to prop up CBS Access is a crap move, but you’ll hurt them far more to show them a cancelled subscription than a pirated data metric.