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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harry96" data-source="post: 342012" data-attributes="member: 4278">I don't work in any aspect of the media industry. Please stop with this ridiculous idea that there's some conspiracy to force people to pay for streaming every month instead of buying a DVD set once. No-one put a gun to anyone's head and forced them to choose streaming over discs, any more than they forced anyone to pick cars over horses or computers over typewriters. They simply offered people streaming, and most people chose it because to most people it's better.  Then they gradually stopped releasing a lot of things on discs because demand for them was decreasing and demand for streaming was increasing. And, as I addressed earlier, the conspiracy logic makes no sense: yes, streaming is more expensive in the long-run for any one particular show -- but it's an order of magnitude cheaper for the consumer when you look at the totality of what you get with a monthly streaming subscription vs. what it would cost to buy all of that on DVDs.  Plus a streaming video can't get lost or damaged or stolen, doesn't take up space on a shelf, doesn't have to be loaded into a player, doesn't require you to buy a player, doesn't have to be packed up if you move, etc.  All of this is why most people have chosen streaming.</blockquote>