it is about two things - licensing as well as market size.<p>in the case of the latter, big media companies just don&#x27;t care about small markets, as the cost of operating them is greater than the potential profits realized.<p>in the case of the former, i work in media and you are absolutely right - media licensing is stuck in a 1985 model, which only serves to sustain a few middlemen kind of players, but in the bigger picture sucks for both consumers and the companies that own the content.<p>one particular result of this is that many people who can&#x27;t legitimately get what the want (in terms of downloads, streams, etc.) will just pirate it, having tried unsuccessfully to do things the right way and been frustrated.