[pessimizer]

Aesthete file sharers frequently have access to movies and music that simply can't be purchased. In the case of movies, subtitles are made every day in a myriad of languages for movies that have never been subtitled. Things that have been lost to the mainstream due to lack of general marketability thrive in the niches that have been created by the maintenance and curation of digital files on hard drives.

[paulsutter]

You make a great point. For example, I love Yasujiro Ozu movies, but very few of them are available on DVD. It would make so much more sense for those movies to be available to everyone through a streaming system, rather than have to sneak around exchanging files.