feel the need to chime in here... The reason this is taking off is because the content providers are signing sweetheart deals with the services. If I could pay

feel the need to chime in here... The reason this is taking off is because the content providers are signing sweetheart deals with the services. If I could pay one source a manageable amount to stream whatever I wanted (even if I had to pay per view), I would take it in a heartbeat (sorry Amazon Prime, you don't have everything). But alas, capitalism fails us here and we're left as consumers to break the law in order to get what we would pay for otherwise. Seriously, People are not all going to get Cable TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Red Box, Warner Brothers, and Hulu Plus in order to have access to 80% of movies released before 1995. In the past we had video rental shops VCRs and DVD players, they're all going or gone now. If the industry wants to stay profitable, they need to either become more cost efficient (sorry Brad Pitt, but you need to take a paycut with the rest of us) or provide us with an easier means of accessing the content online. What's happening here is not too different from the disruption caused by the original iPhone to the carrier market. They're still reeling from it even though they should have expected it. Let's see how long it takes content providers to figure out how to stay relevant without additional government regulation.