Everyone is willing to stop paying for the content, but very few are willing to boycott it instead.

Cancelled Netflix last month. Still have Amazon Prime, but mostly for the delivery. The only video streaming subscription worth keeping is MUBI for now (and Nebula, but that hardly counts).

The era of Free Streaming has just begun

It was over the day the studios wanted to have their own services instead of licensing content to Netflix and competitors.

They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they're putting out right now.

I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.

these numbers are nearly reaching the point where buying seasons of shows on iTunes, which always seemed insanely expensive, becomes the better option for people who watch specific stuff. never thought I’d see the day