This is a really big problem in Australia and not just for written media but also digital content such as TV/Film/eBooks/Audiobooks I WANT to obtain ebooks / t

This is a really big problem in Australia and not just for written media but also digital content such as TV/Film/eBooks/Audiobooks I WANT to obtain ebooks / to series etc... in a way where the authors get paid but they're either inflated in price due to the USD, not available outside of the USA, not available without some sort of awful DRM that prevents me from using a device or my choosing to read / play them on or are low quality. IMO Amazon are the worst offenders for this, they make ebooks far more expensive then physical books and yet still plaster them with their restrictive DRM on top. A lot of their library is unavailable outside the USA or if it is - comes at a great cost. On top of this, while their ebooks readers are great I've found I really need the higher end models with the high DPI screens which are /really/ expensive outside the USA and reading on a LCD screen is just too hard. HBO go isn't available in Australia so that's our. I currently pay for and subscribe to: - Audible (highly overpriced, limited content available in Australia, about to cancel) - Netflix (well priced, good quality, poor interface and limited content available in Australia) - Apple Music (well priced, good quality, poor interface although the latest betas on iOS 10 and iTunes are much, much better) - Spotify (Overpriced, medium quality, good playlists / sharing features) The cost of all these services plus the devices to use them with and the connections for them really adds up. I wish someone / the govt could just act as an international media aggregate and you pay a subscription based on what kinds / levels of content you want and they provide it from various upstream sources in standard formats (never going to happen I know). In the past I've tried: - Safari books online - cancelled due to extremely high costs and very restrictive DRM - Paktpub subscription (Can't remember the name) - overpriced and quality varied greatly - Scribd - overpriced and very hard to get what you want in Australia - Stan - overpriced, poor interface, no 4K support - Quickflicks - overpriced, poor interface, no 4K support ... and many others After all this, just like with licenses software, it would actually be easier for me just to torrent (or whatever) the thing I wanted, but as I said I want to give money to the people that create and maintain the content. The only media provider that does his well in my opinion is Bandcamp, ok they have no subscription model because that's not their thing, but I have spent more money on bandcamp than I ever did on CDs or Vinyl, and the artists get more of a cut. </end rant>