It still costs less to have subs for all of Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple TV and a TV licence than it does to visit the cinema or buy a DVD twice a month.
While I agree with the points above - that if these platforms increase prices, make sharing more difficult, etc people will resort to piracy - I still don't understand why people have an expectation of putting in substantially less money and receiving substantially more content than they once did, when the majority of this content costs the same or more to make than it ever did.
As a consumer, I'd love this stuff to be free, but realistically I understand why it can't be, and I'd prefer to support an industry which I appreciate than to pirate it, particularly where that industry is - by and large - making their content as easily accessible and as cheap as it has ever been, even if they way they do so is still not ideal.
