napster didn't really last. But neither did Prodigy's idea about charging $1 an email, or my first cell phone that cost many dollars per call. Competition works.
“napster didn’t really last.”
But Spotify did. And so did Uber. Both of them started out bypassing the old systems that were obsolete, and doing it illegally, but because they were successful, they got away with a slap on the wrist. Eventually someone’s going to do the same for tv and movies.
“Competition works.”
Sure, and right now the competition to 20 different streaming services with high monthly rates and very low quality (in general) content is pirate sites that are free and coalesce all the best content in one place. The fact that the competition is breaking the law doesn’t mean that the industry can afford to ignore that this is in fact their greatest competitor at the moment.