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You mean, like cable?
Like early Netflix before they all decided they would make their own shitty streaming services and didn't renew contracts.
There's a very functional middle ground between all in one cable, and a hundred different services.
Yeah. We were there! Or close enough... It was a glorious week where everything lined up perfectly... Then we overshot and we are in this clusterfuck of nonsense.
"We" didn't do anything wrong. The people controlling the companies involved did. Don't include yourself with a group of bad people if you're not part of them.
Turns out we were almost there 40 years ago with CBS, NBC, PBS, and ABC.
No there isn't. Companies are incentivised to extract as much money as possible from any given buyer. There is never a "this is enough money, I won't charge you more" situation. Inevitably every buyer will become a non-buyer, because they were outpriced.
Competition should solve this issue, but it doesn't work in media because there's no two rights holders for star wars content, or marvel content, or whatever. So services cannot compete on the same content, because the rights holders simply won't let them.
Copyright is a pest.
More like how all the music streaming services work. All got pretty much the same content, just different quality and prices.