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Netflix may well win this, but then everyone just goes pirate and Netflix loses masses of subscribers. These companies just do not get it....


Netflix "gets it" very well, they have to tiptoe between satisfying their content providers with plausible-enough looking action and at the same time trying to not alienate their end-users. They probably know the exact numbers of their chosen paths and have chosen optimally (for now).


The benefits to Netflix for playing by the rules outstrips the loss to pirates.




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