[Reason077]

”pirates have distributed content through RSS for a long time and it was a much better UX than anything offered by the big players.”

Perhaps if viewed through a technical/hacker lens. But platforms like Netflix, Spotify, and iPlayer have been successful at attracting (paying!) users precisely because their UX is so much better.

Better than traditional TV boxes, and also better than the pirate world.

[paule89]

As long as there is only 1 or 2 platforms, which you have to choose and pay for. If there are too many fish in the see and you have to pay for all of them, people will pay for none of them.

[werid]

This is already a problem in sports, especially football/soccer. Many leagues/competitions are spread out among several streaming services.

[emerongi]

Netflix's UX is that it works and there are no ads. Otherwise there are way better UIs out there in the pirate world which actually have features other than "scroll through boxes of images".