While there’s little doubt that cheaper, more flexible streaming TV options are a definite step up from overpriced cable TV channel bundles, we’ve noted for a while how there’s a problem in the sector it hasn’t spent much time thinking about. As companies rush to lock down your favorite content via exclusives, users are increasingly being forced to hunt and peck among rotating catalogs to find the content they’re looking for. Want to watch Star Trek? You’ll need to subscribe to CBS All Access. Want to watch The Office? You’ll need to subscribe to Comcast’s streaming service. Friends? You’ll need AT&T.
The one two punch of ever shifting licensing deals and exclusives, shared among more than a dozen different services, risks over-complicating finding the content users are looking for. Push this particular idea too far in that direction, and consumers are going to simply pirate — an ironic outcome to a decade spent trying to migrate pirates to legit streaming alternatives.
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