At some point it escalates to where the media providers make watching their media so expensive, time consuming, and difficult that piracy ramps back up. It sou

At some point it escalates to where the media providers make watching their media so expensive, time consuming, and difficult that piracy ramps back up. It sounds dumb, like "why would companies shoot themselves in the foot like this" but trust that they will. They always do. Corpobrain is a form of autopilot, there's no one with intelligence in charge not because the people who work at media companies are dumb (though, they are), but because there's just literally no one in charge. Its autopilot. Each iterative decision in isolation makes sense, but when zoomed out and interpreted holistically they're killing their own business.