Awesome. Now we can see if the movie and media industry experience a correlated rise in profits and settle this question whether "piracy" damages these industries once and for all.
It's much easier to pirate the content and have a single source of media than trying to figure out which pay service a show/movie is available on.<p>'Piracy' of tv/movies won't go away until that problem is solved.
One of the biggest successes of the music and movie industry is getting everyone to call unlicensed distribution “piracy”.<p>It equates a completely non-violent act with a very violent act that was once a capital crime.
What would people consider the ideal realistic system?<p>Something fair to content creators, distributors, and consumers.<p>I, personally, would like to be able to purchase one time "unlimited" licenses (like buying a book or a DVD) that can be easily validated by the publisher's web API and enable non-subscription content to be served by netflix/hulu/amazon/etc.<p>To enable (for example) streaming an amazon show through netflix. Presumably, streaming providers would (assuming the cost on an individual movie/series basis would be too small to be practical as a single payment made by me at time of consumption) include low-cost "Bring your own content" add-ons to subscriptions that would cover distribution costs through aggregate balances between providers.