Knowing how to pirate is quite different from being able to pirate easily. Torrenting is a small niche now (at least in the US) because of ISP DMCA notices etc., whereas billions of people own smartphones worldwide. If someone releases a netflix-ripper app, it would quite likely see a higher adoption than bittorrent.
A netflix ripping app would surely be banned from the Play Store, and would still not be able to solve the content distribution problem. Netflix doesn't care if you rip content, they care if you try to distribute ripped content to others, which is really only feasible with bitttorent or similar.
It doesn't have to be on the play-store. Also, netflix cares more about ongoing subscription than re-distribution. So if I rip a sizable chuck of what I want to watch, I won't renew my subscription.
What's to stop Netflix from uniquely forensically watermarking each user's streams? If anyone person starts to rip their streams for redistributing, then it will be easy enough for them to determine which user it was and block that account. The small number of people that would be able/willing to rip would be easy enough to track down.
Blocking accounts would just earn you an extra $12, not solve the problem. So you'd need to actively prosecute, and account sharing is so rampant that is going to quickly lead to terrible press.
They wouldn't be able to recoup damages from lost (potential) revenue from the cat (content) coming out of the bag (walled garden), even if they identify and go after the rip sources.
You can't expect to be able to collect a 9+ figures from a random individual
Just use a service like put.io for your downloading and torrents are suddenly easy again. With the Android app, I search, click the magnet, put.io pops up, the transfer is usually instant (due to dedupe), then I click stream.
define pirating, because it's legal in many parts of Europe to watch copy of movie even if you don't own original, it's illegal to upload content, it's legal to download it, so sites like fmovies.se gomovies.to and million other clones (which are actually using Google video to host their copies) are legal for their users
