I agree with your argument except for the fact that many of the streaming services people are subscribing to ALSO carry advertising on them. And no one is saying that it should be "free."

Forgive me, but I don't know what other thread you're talking about.

"Vaginas are gross."

"You think you're bi, but eventually you'll realize you're gay."

I mean, you say yourself, "those services [won't] be the only way to get access to that content."

I live in New York. Dry caves have been out of my price range since the 90s.

I don't pretend to know the data, nor would I predict any industries demise this year, or in five or ten years. But as has been pointed out by many people other than myself, we have two historical trends that we can look at to gauge how consumers work — the fall and half-rise of the music industry and the decline of…

Hot take, Mr. Townhall commenter.

Yes, because certainly flawed business models have never hit big industries hard, right? Excuse me a minute while I go pop in a Metallica CD.

If you really think sharing "a standard cable password" to give people
"access to a huge amount of content" is something Comcast or Spectrum is tacitly approving of I have some beachfront property to sell you.

Kermit is sitting in a corner sadly strumming his banjo.

I never salsa many stodgy people in my life.

This is…not really news. Unless it's news that in a capitalist system the people at the top make money off of everyone else regardless of their politics. Liberal people are forced to take money from conservative billionaires to fund their projects, conservative billionaires make their money selling things to liberal…

I would have been interested if it were AV Club UP…All Night, but this…?

Well, now I regret being a theater kid.

Yeah, I can see how that would pump you up.

More than Netflix was mentioned. I know for a fact several of the other services listed do not explicitly permit password sharing.

Not if you're committed to Platonic ideals.

Nobody can easily pirate an airplane. ;)

To teat? What kind of restaurant do you THINK this is?