Source: Published articles
Article note: Imagine that, the media companies have balkanized and re-invented all the things people hated about cable - the cost, the ads, the array of premium plans all missing content, the site-locking - trying to maximize extraction, and now everyone is trying to get out.
The entertainment media market _isn't actually that big_ so it won't long-term support a bunch of players with small libraries and high prices. The music market has mostly figured out that they need their content on all the major distributors (though the deals have horrifically bad payout for artists), the same consolidation and commoditization is coming for video (and/or everyone is going back to piracy).
