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Piracy isn't stealing if buying isn't owning.
While I agree, it doesn't really apply to Netflix. It was always a rental/streaming business. Netflix never offered to sell the media, just temporary access to it.
Buying is owning. You just didn't buy what you thought you did.
But they are telling us we're "buyiing" it while hiding the truth 100 pages deep in the fine print. Screw 'em