It's still a matter of distribution. You won't have to deal with the company that owned the wire or the satellite service, but you'll have to deal with one of

It's still a matter of distribution. You won't have to deal with the company that owned the wire or the satellite service, but you'll have to deal with one of the few companies that are purchasing IPs left and right (Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Disney). In the end it's just different people controlling the distribution. The difference was that the content owners still had the choice to have their content available in other media formats, now it's the distributors that own the content and will (probably) limit it to their distribution channels.