Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

It's gonna end like this:

share a netflix account with friends for kids while the adults watch movies and tv shhows on popocorn time.

"May" drive them back?

This has already happened in my circles..

People who had cut the cord but all but walked away from casual piracy and signed up for Netflix and HBO (and probably Prime Video because they had Amazon Prime already) are openly talking about the fact they're definitely not signing up for more streaming services, and are seeking out torrenting again for the stuff that's being pulled from Netflix (especially Disney shows).

I feel like there's a business opportunity for a meta-service that automatically manages monthly subscriptions for you on different services. You queue up a catalog of shows you want to watch, and it creates an optimized schedule for you and helps sign up for the individual streaming service on a given month in order to watch the show you want.

As long as you don't care about the zeitgeist, this would probably be fine for a lot of people.

Cheap VPNs might not provide much serious security but they might help a lot with availability.

Streaming "choices"? It's fragmentation and rent-seeking behavior. It is simply a case of the supply not meeting the demand at a reasonable price point, when there is an alternative.