> But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. That's a feature

> But I have seen a lot of my non-technical friends and family having a degraded experience, who pay for their streaming services every month. That's a feature, not a bug, from the perspective of those pushing DRM and other access/consumption controls onto consumers. How many times will someone buy the same content just to find the best combination across all their services and devices to fit their current arrangement? A hell of a lot more than if they just bought a universally playable instance of maximum quality that never gave a poor experience in any viewing context. It's an ugly, exploitive rent-seeking form of "worse is better".