> I don't quite understand why anything is ever taken off the streaming service. Probably won't happen for the first-party services like Disney Plus, Paramount

> I don't quite understand why anything is ever taken off the streaming service. Probably won't happen for the first-party services like Disney Plus, Paramount, etc. but things leave Netflix because the deals for streaming usually last 5-15 years; no studio exec wants to be the name attached to something like "Netflix gets exclusive streaming rights to this film in perpetuity" when 50 years down the line it would've made more sense to relicense it to X other company or bring it into your own streaming library. It's not anywhere near a technical limitation like you suggest, it's a money issue.