Well when you have a retail job Muman you can't necessarily afford to see every movie you're interested in. I've never pirated exclusively, just some movies. I've paid to see a lot of movies too and have enough DVDs and old VHS's to prove it and a bunch of fading movie tickets in my purse I should probably get around to throwing away.
Netflix seems to be cheaper than Blockbuster was.
The downloads used to be really low quality a lot of times (dark screens, especially) and not really like seeing it on tv or in the actual theater.
Sometimes if I saw one movie at home it helped me see the rest in the series later at the theater. One particular movie that's a bit of an ironic example was Pirates of the Caribbean, I saw the first movie as a torrent, thought it was hilarious, and watched the others in the theater.
I never understood why it's ok to watch a movie for free when it just happens to be shown on tv (as most of the movies I've torrented eventually have been) but not ok to watch it for free on my computer. I see just as many advertisements either way. lol
Anyway just for personal convenience' sake I might see if I can find something cheaper and just as good as Netflix if not I might start using it because checking every torrent to see if some MPAA jerk is rigging it is becoming a headache. There used to be a few reliable uploaders like axxo who always gave out quality dvd rips and lived in a foreign country where they could do it without being hassled, but he's been impersonated a lot and so even things labeled as coming from axxo weren't necessarily from him and if I saw something called a tracker in the file I knew it was no good.
All the other reliable uploaders have also been impersonated to the point where it's ridiculous.
It also seems like I have to keep changing programs, first I used Napster for music and that got shut down then I used limewire for music/movies, that got screwed up, bearshare got screwed up, utorrent and bittorrent are still ok but you have to check every single file to make sure it's not a fake/virus/set up.
IRC and Usenet have infiltrators too.
I guess the Borg are winning this one.