Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, and pretty much any other digital media streaming service will likely face a problem at some point fighting with content providers ab

Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, and pretty much any other digital media streaming service will likely face a problem at some point fighting with content providers about licensing costs. If you're a content provider, why would you want to take anything less for your content than everything Netflix could afford to pay? Particularly since there are other options (e.g. Amazon, Blockbuster) that could grow to compete with Netflix. It will be interesting to see how things play out between the media streamers and content providers. Unless a media streamer can get an essential monopoly on its market (e.g. Netflix in movie/TV, Spotify in music) to be able to set favorable terms, I think its going to be difficult for any streamer to be really successful. I agree with many others that Netflix is doing a fantastic job of destroying its public image and goodwill, which is opening the door for other companies to make a push. And their streaming selection is so limited - I got the streaming trial, but couldn't find a single movie on which I wanted to spend two hours of my life and cancelled the trial a week later having watched nothing. I can't imagine paying monthly fees for this library unless I wanted to watch a certain TV show - but I'd probably cancel again as soon as I finished that show.