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'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'


A new survey confirms that the high cost of online video streaming subscription services keeps piracy relevant.

Netflix set the tone a decade ago by offering movies and TV series online as a convenient alternative to piracy. The online survey, conducted by Cordcutting among a sample of 988 American adults, finds that a third of all respondents pirated TV series or movies in the past year. Among the U.S. respondents who indicated that they had never pirated anything, malware threats and potential negative effects on the industry were frequently mentioned as reasons.

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