Competition in the streaming content industry does not benefit consumers as long as streaming providers compete by trying to monopolize content. There are a few

Competition in the streaming content industry does not benefit consumers as long as streaming providers compete by trying to monopolize content. There are a few solutions to this which I can think of: 1. Add government regulation that makes exclusive licensing of content to streaming services illegal. This feels heavy-handed to me. Streaming entertainment just isn't important enough to warrant the attention of government. 2. Companies self-regulate: this would be cool, but it's not gonna happen without some serious outside intervention. 3. Removal of copyrighting that allows companies to enforce their licenses. This is arguably bad for content producers, but in practice content producers aren't receiving the bulk of the profits--labels and studios are. 4. Go back to an ownership rather than a rent model of content distribution. DRM essentially breaks this, however, and again it's unlikely that content distributors will stop using this. I favor 4, but at a personal level, 3 is the only one really available to me, de-facto.