I predict a "Streaming Day of Reckoning" happening one day, where a critical mass of users suddenly loses access to a critical mass of content, because they became utterly dependent on streaming instead of physical media or local media storage. We occasionally read news of a handful of users losing access to a handful of content, and just shrug saying "Oh, well, streaming isn't perfect and this is growing pains." Maybe a user loses access to all their purchased Amazon movies because they got banned from the platform. "So sad," we say, as we continue to depend on streaming more and more. A niche streaming platform goes out of business and its small user base loses access to content. "Oh, well, there's still Netflix and Hulu," we say, as we keep switching to these platforms.<p>One day, a big one is going to go dark, and millions of people will suddenly lose access to the hundreds of movies they got used to accessing, and <i>maybe</i> we'll start waking up and looking for better alternative business models than streaming the same bytes over and over from centralized services.