Of course they want to. Who doesn’t want to protect his or her intellectual property?
There are probably millions of people subscribed to Netflix merely because pirating Netflix content is inconvenient enough to make people rather pay. How many would reconsider this if the user experience of pirating was exactly as convenient as a paid Netflix account?
Most probably enough so that enacting DRM is the smaller price to pay.
> There are probably millions of people subscribed to Netflix merely because pirating Netflix content is inconvenient enough to make people rather pay. How many would reconsider this if the user experience of pirating was exactly as convenient as a paid Netflix account?
The people extracting the content are people who do subscribe. The user experience of the people who pirate instead of subscribing is completely unaffected by DRM because the DRM is removed by the time it gets to them.
All the DRM does is make the experience of piracy better than that of subscribing, by inconveniencing paying customers and not pirates.
Notice that the people complaining about DRM are almost never pirates, who have cracked it all already. They're people who want to pay Netflix money so they can watch Netflix on their weird Linux setup or whatever instead of just downloading whatever they want in the Netflix catalog from the piracy sites, which would be much easier.
DRM doesn't do anything for non interactive content. It's trivial to rip video and music regardless of what DRM scheme is used because the content is useless unless it's eventually presented to the viewer/listener in a non DRMd form.
You can make this argument for DRM on games, because there is no analogue hole - I can't record me playing a game and give someone else the exact same experience (although some publishers try to restrict this too, not realizing that streamers and youtubers are just giving them free advertising by playing their games).
It was actually interesting to me the latest Chris Rock special which was on Netflix live recently. The first live event I've heard of Netflix doing.
It took a day to get onto the torrent sites.
So that was the first instance I've seen where buying was better than pirating.
I did see comments on the torrent sites from people who were there because their legitimate paid setup was deemed incompatible with live streams by Netflix though... Not a great incentive to keep paying.
There are probably millions of people subscribed to Netflix merely because pirating Netflix content is inconvenient enough to make people rather pay. How many would reconsider this if the user experience of pirating was exactly as convenient as a paid Netflix account?
Most probably enough so that enacting DRM is the smaller price to pay.