Once upon a time streaming required the highest end hardware and software you could get your hands on. This meant that only a company (i.e. Netflix) that specia

Once upon a time streaming required the highest end hardware and software you could get your hands on. This meant that only a company (i.e. Netflix) that specialized in streamimg services could offer such expertise, thus if you wanted your content streamed you would sign an agreement with them. Nowadays "streaming engineers" are a lot more available for building a company's streamimg platform and costs have gone down significantly so everyone is just ending the deals and getting back their stuff