Since the owners of video content can’t wrap their heads around the simple fact that there is zero difference between streaming video to a phone, tablet, computer, “smart TV”, or set-top box†, I say it is time for compulsory licensing.
That’s how music is licensed (here in the US at least). You don’t have to go to the “rights holder” for permission to play a song. You just have to be sure that you pay them the mandated fee.
We get to watch movies and TV however is convenient for us; the “rights holders” get paid; win-win.
†Here’s how you can tell: Open them up and see that, inside, all of these things are computers.
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