In fairness, the raw product of music has the advantage of being very cheap to produce. A lot of the value that the industry provides is in marketing. There's

In fairness, the raw product of music has the advantage of being very cheap to produce. A lot of the value that the industry provides is in marketing. There's also an extent to which bands can afford to give away music on generous terms, because they can use it to publicise other, non-reproducible forms of entertainment like gigs. By contrast, with the exception of a small minority of films that rake in on merchandising, in the movie/tv industry the film is the only real product. That product is extremely expensive to make. If everyone only streamed Netflix to consume video, the industry would have to drastically reduce investment in making original content. That might be an acceptable outcome to many people, but I can see why the industry would want/need to fight it.