It goes beyond that. Word out mouth is HUGE in this day and age. Not just talking with people at work or your friends and family. Interacting with strangers online is engagement. If you bootleg an Amazon Original and then go online to talk about it, it doesn’t matter if you tell people you torrented it. All that matters is that there is engagement. Maybe others will torrent it, too, but just as likely someone will watch it that may never have otherwise because of the conversation you had, and they may not torrent it. Then they go off and tell some other people who tell some other people, and now that one time your torrented a movie has generated an amount of money greater than $0.

We have to completely cut all of these companies out of our lives if we are going to fix anything.

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