In fairness to Netflix, in the old days they only had to own a copy of the DVD in order to rent it out. Now they have to secure rights for every title they wan

In fairness to Netflix, in the old days they only had to own a copy of the DVD in order to rent it out. Now they have to secure rights for every title they want to stream. That’s a lot of work (and cost) for a hundred thousand titles, especially when your competitors own some of the studios that license those titles. Disney, for example, owns the Disney / Marvel / Fox / Searchlight / Lucasfilm back catalogues and wants to hoard much of it for its own streaming service.