There’s a lot more people than just the producers to blame when it comes to licensing and digitizing of content. Every record label and musician used, actors royalties, director royalties. Lots of people can make it unprofitable to digitize content, because it does cost money to store and host TV and movies just for server costs, so some profit has to be generated to incentivize it.
Oh yeah I’m not blaming the consumer (this time!) but the producers themselves.
All of that content could be provided digitally if we only took internet architecture and that sort of stuff seriously.
We could eliminate a lot of the need for physicality if we improved digital infra
There’s a lot more people than just the producers to blame when it comes to licensing and digitizing of content. Every record label and musician used, actors royalties, director royalties. Lots of people can make it unprofitable to digitize content, because it does cost money to store and host TV and movies just for server costs, so some profit has to be generated to incentivize it.
Right, no free lunches!