[ohithereyou]

The only system that can cover all five of your points right now is piracy.

1) No charge, so you're not paying for content you won't watch

2) Same as 1

3) A torrent client speaking RSS + a private torrent site that serves RSS covers this

4) You pay with nothing - no money, no data, and no viewing history

5) Files without DRM can be played on any device and cannot be retroactively deleted by the service provider

Piracy really is most often a services problem.

[jogundas]

That's right! It would be interesting to see how torrented series statistics correlate with online streaming prices. My feeling is that as Netflix-like services become more expensive and/or fragmented, piracy picks up. Don't have any numbers to back this up with though.

[austhrow743]

Physical discs.

[snuxoll]

DRM, high cost, and ironically, poor availability (I bought all the seasons of ER in 1080p off iTunes, there exists no Blu-Ray sets for the show and the DVDs are often more expensive than what I paid Apple for digital copies that I promptly stripped the DRM from)