This post, by Mike D'Angelo, has generated some controversy within the film community. 

Why the uproar? Because D'Angelo admits that he pirates movies. He writes:

"... I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it, frankly. When I was given the opportunity to pay a reasonable fee to rent, I happily did so, and was more than willing to kick in the Blu-ray surcharge that both sites imposed. Now that that option has been withdrawn, my non-piracy choices are (a) spend $30 or so to purchase a movie I don't (in most cases) wish to permanently own, or (b) not watch the movie. Neither of those is acceptable to me. Furthermore, I can't see how my downloading these films is depriving anybody of income, since I delete those I don't love immediately after viewing them and buy physical copies of those I do love—or, if I can't afford them right this second, add them to a wishlist. Either way, I watch the file and then nuke it. The only films that I've downloaded illegally and then burned to disc are The Arbor and Godard's A Married Woman, and that's only because there's no Region 1 Blu-ray of those two titles. (I don't have a region-free player.)

I don't pirate movies out of some sorry sense of entitlement. I pirate movies because at the present moment I know of no other means of watching a high-definition copy of an older film without buying it outright. And that's ridiculous."

I don't believe in pirating movies, but I can see where D'Angelo is coming from, and if I was in a similar position I would be tempted to do the same thing. But I'm still finding most of what I want to see through Netflix and GreenCine, and I don't have a Blu-ray player, so I'm still able to watch pretty much whatever I want to watch without doing anything illegal.