Viewers are switching to a superior platformpirate streaming services.

That didn’t work, and eventually, Spotify and other streaming platforms came along and saved them.

By making the paid product better and easier than the free one.

Netflix building at sunset

The streaming services are picking a fight they cannot win.Venti Views / Unsplash

Now, the movie industryseems to have forgotten that lessonand is paying the price.

“Piracy will never be fully eradicated, but it can be reduced by focusing on the user experience.

EvenYouTube is raising prices, and it doesn’t even pay for most of the media it streams.

Graphic of a pirate ship at dusk

Pirates did a lot worse than watching a movie without paying.Zoltan Tasi / Unsplash

The result of all this nonsense is that the free option is better.

They are easy to use, and most content is available without commercial interruptions,” says Rosenberg.

Unstoppable

The video streaming platforms cannot win this.

They’re going to have to make their services cheaper, better, and less annoying to use.