The situation for visual media is absolutely awful right now. Everything from movies to TV shows to manga to books is all completely awful. Here in Germany it'

The situation for visual media is absolutely awful right now. Everything from movies to TV shows to manga to books is all completely awful. Here in Germany it's basically impossible to legally access manga and anime, and you will actually receive multiple thousand euro fines if you torrent without a VPN (or sometimes even stream if it turns out the streaming service uses a p2p connection, which hit a fair few people) People got excited because music was such a "success" story with cheap access to almost everything, and frankly gaming isn't too bad either (though we can still name a lot of horror stories in that case), but this has absolutely not materialised for visual media