Although very limited in its content, at least in Canada. My understanding is that it's because of old exclusivity contracts with cable providers. And indeed,

Although very limited in its content, at least in Canada. My understanding is that it's because of old exclusivity contracts with cable providers. And indeed, our process is: "Can we rent it? No, fine let's fine a pirated copy". Not going to get cable for one night to watch this one movie. Everybody's losing by hanging on those old outdated systems.