Except that 98% more people pirated it by downloading it, the company would have had a lot more revenue if these people would've had to buy a genuine product.
That's a really naive way of looking at it. You're assuming that these people would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it. They likely wouldn't have.
I wouldn't. My reason? I have no more use for DVDs. My PC hasn't even had a DVD Rom in the last two years. Everything I do is digital. I even install Windows from a flash drive. I get annoyed when I have to deal with something as archaic as DVDs, much less having to leave my house and drive 15km to go buy it. If they could provide me with a
viable digital alternative, I'd happily buy their movies/series. But they don't and I'm left with the choice of physical media that I have to go out and buy and which can get damaged and stop working, versus the convenience of getting the same thing with a few clicks and a few minutes of waiting time.
Incidentally, I am a heavy pirate, yet I also spend anything between $50 - $300 a month on software. This is only possible because of the convenience services such as Steam bring me. It's not much now, but it's a lot of money for a student. I pirate heavily, yet I still spend a ton of cash on software despite the fact that I can get everything I want for free. Statistically, heavy pirates are often also heavy spenders. It simply makes sense to try before you buy.