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Netflix has a problem, yes. Yet consumers are going to put a cap on how many streaming services they will purchase. Will these competing services make enough revenue to justify removing their catalog from Netflix? For Disney, yes, the others, maybe not.

That's the exact problem that big businesses don't realize about just following the trend of building their own streaming services with exclusive content. While indeed it is good to have competition, there also is gonna be a point where there's so many streaming services with "exclusive content", those who still use cable are gonna see cutting the cord as no longer a viable option because it's one big selling point of being less expensive than cable TV is gonna be no more.

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My solution to watching the "exclusive content" is to subscribe for a month, watch the content, then cancel. Then I can move on to the next service for their content. Although I do maintain an Amazon membership year round for its other benefits.

If you use different emails and credit cards you can usual get quite a few free trials too.

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I honestly think the subscription-based streaming service business is gonna eventually eat itself and no longer become a viable source of revenue for studios. The biggest promise made by cutting the cord for Netflix was that the bills were not gonna be as expensive as that of cable TV. And if we have so many competitors offering a subscription-based streaming service with content "exclusive" to their library, people are gonna have a difficult time choosing services. Especially because they won't be able to simply purchase a copy of certain content from the service's library for a one-time fee and keep it forever like they could a DVD or VHS.

I think the business model that is gonna end up prevailing on the internet for a long time is one-time purchases of certain shows, movies, or other content. At least with that, the customer has the choice to buy it and keep it forever (unless you buy it on Amazon Prime lol) unlike with streaming services, where the content in their library could be pulled from you at any time and you lose the ability to view such content after your subscription's expired.