Pirate Streaming's Similarity to Legitimate Services Helping Users, DTC Says

Traditionally, consumers of pirated content sacrificed high quality and easy access at no charge, but illicit streaming services increasingly "look a lot like the legitimate ones," Digital Tech Consulting President Myra Moore blogged Sunday. Their increasing similarity to legit services, and opaqueness to how pirate services function, help users rationalize their behavior, she said: Pirate services' advantage is they provide abundant, high-quality programming and convenient access to content with no advertisements and at low cost.