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Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy

www.abc.net.au Streaming costs are rising, and there are more platforms than ever to choose between. Some people are going back to piracy

Continual price hikes and fragmentation of services have seen some Australians ditch their streaming services in favour of film and TV piracy.

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Yes there is competition for streaming but not for the specific content of the services. With music I can choose Spotify or Deezer or whatever, but for Disney content I can only use Disney+ or for Paramount Content only Paramount+, so they have a monopoly for their respective content if I want to stream it.
- That's most industries though. That's like saying Toyota has a monopoly on Toyotas but, I can just buy a Ford that does the same exact thing. That's not what monopoly means.
  
  That's not a very good analogy, but even if we run with a cars one... then it's more like one dealership being the only one allowed to sell Toyotas. You aren't allowed to buy any Toyota, even a used rusty one, from any other dealership. If the dealership decides it costs too much in storage to keep a certain car, like a Prius c, in stock...well they just get rid of the Prius C altogether. (HBO and Westworld being the dealership and Prius c for example)
  
  Isn't it though?
  
  Not really. That's a different media and format. (But before you say that you can technically stream it on DirectTV too, that's owned by AT&T, who also owns HBO)
  But sure, I'll accept that Westworld wasn't a great example for my analogy since I was only considering streaming. A better example might be Final Space Season 3. The third season never got a physical media release (any you find are homemade copies) and the entire series is unstreamable (save for s2e1 on Amazon prime for purchase....for some reason).
  This is going to be a growing trend. If they ever decide to pull streaming rights for Barry s2-4 or Stranger Things S3-4, they also don't have physical media available currently.
  
  I agree that what you're saying is a problem but, that still doesn't qualify it as a monopoly. If one company owned every TV series that's a monopoly, what you're saying isn't.
  
  I see what you mean, I think you're right.

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