It will continue to thrive if companies insist on packaging content into several streaming services and wrapping them under subscriptions, region locks, and pla

It will continue to thrive if companies insist on packaging content into several streaming services and wrapping them under subscriptions, region locks, and platforms, and then proceed to ask for more money and limit its usability. This is more of a symptom than anything else. In the 00's was mostly due to distribution, now it's mostly fragmentation and subscription layers.