The big official content providers live in an expansive bubble world of sustaining themselves enough through legally sanctioned, DRM protected content streaming

The big official content providers live in an expansive bubble world of sustaining themselves enough through legally sanctioned, DRM protected content streaming under restrictive moat conditions that they can afford to ignore the obvious stupidities of their distribution models. At the same time, they continue to lobby for anti-piracy controls without even slightly recognizing the deep flaws in their methods. Why? Because enough rent gets extracted from things as they are, from millions of consumers who are just content enough to keep paying, that it doesn't really matter to do anything innovatively different. Instead, the existing balance between lobbying legally against piracy and maintaining a strangled content distribution system works just well enough. This is why we keep seeing idiocies of DRM restrictions and policies that seem designed for a world in which the fully global internet and flow of information wasn't even a thing. You thus get situations where certain content is absurdly blocked in certain places without a single good practical reason because the balance I describe above isn't badly enough affected, at least for now. However if they keep pushing along this path, things will change, and possibly in nasty ways against their interest to a point where they'll have to open up more or deal with genuine damage to their rigged markets. Technology often (though sadly not always) has a funny way of suddenly breaking down dams in unexpected moments. In this case it would be especially easy for this to happen because the infrastructure of piracy is already here and easily available to anyone who puts in a modicum of effort. New innovations aren't even really necessary. it only (again, for now) lacks the incentives that could make it surge.