> It's not about long tails or any other argument, it's much simpler than that. People are willing to pay for a decent service, people are unwillingly to have e

> It's not about long tails or any other argument, it's much simpler than that. People are willing to pay for a decent service, people are unwillingly to have extra work. > When each film studio didn't have its own streaming service, the piracy was falling. On top of this, something my co-workers and I were talking about some time ago: We were all several times more likely to pay for something than we were to sign up for something free. Being able to just pay for something without having to create an account and a subscription - like how physical media works - would probably also help. The examples you listed are (were) all centralized places where the account creation is a one-time thing, and when streaming fractured into so many places that model broke. Now you need to sign up for each of them, which adds a lot to the friction.