As said, I believe the major reason for there not being real competition is that enough people are fine with the current condition. We cannot assume that every niche can be served.

I'm not doubting people download to "vent", but isn't that independent of the moralic discussion of whether someone should be entitled to download?

Yes, but maybe enough people are fine with the current condition because they can download. If they couldn't, more people would be frustrated with status quo and force something else to appear.

"..but isn't that independent of the moralic discussion.." Well, one could argue that since they refuse to make an alternative, people can resort to the only alternative there is.

They all behave the same? I have one movie in particular, Gamers: Dorkness Rising, that has a section on piracy. It says that they encourage people to share this movie with their friends, burn it, copy it, whatever.

So, there are some companies that do allow for the movies to be shared.

Oh, now here's a fun situation we find ourselves in. The movie company themselves openly encourage people to share the movie. Now people are sharing the movie. Are you going to pay for the movie as well, to encourage them to make more movies so that they can continue their share the movie practice? Hm...