Was going to say piracy then realised you said the general public. I don’t think piracy will ever be as prolific as it was when you could just physically hand your mate a VHS tape - torrenting etc is a bit complex for most, as well as the risk of your ISP getting in touch. Those in the know use VPNs and the like but this is a bit techy for the general public.
I think they’ll just cough up. Most average people don’t micromanage their finances so they don’t notice how a tenner for this streaming a service, a tenner for that streaming service etc ends up adding up to more than their cable/satellite/etc subscription did. They just see “a tenner for Paramount” (or whatever) in a vacuum and figure that it’s not much, rather than adding them all together to work out what their monthly TV cost is.
Was going to say piracy then realised you said the general public. I don’t think piracy will ever be as prolific as it was when you could just physically hand your mate a VHS tape - torrenting etc is a bit complex for most, as well as the risk of your ISP getting in touch. Those in the know use VPNs and the like but this is a bit techy for the general public.
I think they’ll just cough up. Most average people don’t micromanage their finances so they don’t notice how a tenner for this streaming a service, a tenner for that streaming service etc ends up adding up to more than their cable/satellite/etc subscription did. They just see “a tenner for Paramount” (or whatever) in a vacuum and figure that it’s not much, rather than adding them all together to work out what their monthly TV cost is.