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In my perfect world we would decouple content libraries from the technologies, services, interfaces, etc. that go into serving the content. The former is largely a curation and legal-rights negotiation task. The latter is a technical and interface design task. It kind of sucks that we're held hostage to bad UX or technology to access good content or vice versa. It's definitely not a great situation for the consumer and is a classic case of market failure owing to the (albeit limited) monopoly powers of the rights holders.

>>narava+(OP)
We did something similar, for similar reasons, with movie studios and movie theaters. Movie studios couldn't own theaters until very recently (a couple years ago, I think).

Production companies shouldn't be able to own streaming platforms, and streaming platforms shouldn't be able to become production companies.