I have to admit it, I pirate movies using bit torrent clients.
There are so few new ideas in the media world today.  Start a movie playback - instant stuff we've already seen a dozen or so times, cliche.
I can't see paying for something until I know if it is something I really want.  I'll go to a live film if I know enough about it and I'll buy it when it comes out for my collection.  I'll want to show it at home to others sometime later.  But so many films out these days are so predictable or they have political messages I do not agree with, torrenting seems the best way to see if they are good enough to keep.
So many I download, watch for 5 minutes or less and then delete them!  I download with torrent lots of free Public Domain stuff, great quality and you know exactly what you are getting.
I have no idea if torrenting is illegal in the country I live in or not, I'll continue to use the tool to test if a movie is good or not.