It actually kind of did for a lot of people. Streaming was cheap, available, and convenient.

Now it's none of those three. Once again, choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag.

I went almost 20 years without sailing the high seas. It was the death of DVD Netflix that really did it for me.

With DVD, Netflix if something I wanted to watch wasn't on any of my streaming services, it was almost guaranteed to be on DVD Netflix. That fallback doesn't exist anymore.