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Netflix streaming actually decreases choices in some very essential ways. First, DVDs usually have several audio and subtitle tracks in several languages. Streaming don't have these choices. And the second aspect is that I need an internet connection which make it impossible to watch a movie in my summer house that has only a limited 3G internet connection as apposed to a broadband line in my city flat.
You can make a case that some people pirate stuff to get things for free. What is still missing in the equation is how much would they be paying if they couldn't get it for free? I suspect that not that much. Most people who engage in piracy are either unemployed or poor college or high-school students. Of course, there are exceptions but I have a feeling that most hard working people on the lower side of income scale (which are majority) are technically inept and wouldn't know how to pirate stuff in the first place.
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