This is horrible for both the content providers, and for Netflix. When moves like this drive people to piracy due to convenience it obviously hurts the content

This is horrible for both the content providers, and for Netflix. When moves like this drive people to piracy due to convenience it obviously hurts the content provider, but with such lackluster offerings who will bother subscribing to Netflix in the first place? It's not very hard to imagine a world where the only companies to survive the death of TV and the rise of digital are monoliths like Google, Apple, and Amazon. I'm sure they would do as good of a job providing video content as they do today, but without specialized companies like Netflix and Spotify in the arena to shake things up, stagnation is inevitable... and then we're right back where we started