[stumped]

Maybe convenience beats free. Spotify etc are not uncrackable, but what the subscription buys is ease to use, so millions of people pay a small monthly fee instead of going through the hassle of stealing and hoarding.

Pre Amazon, pre kindles, no one I knew actually bought books, that was something only rich people did. You wanted something to read, you joined a library...

I would prefer a less cutthroat world for all media, where creatives could get enough from a share of a streaming, rental, model for them to go on creating, and no one would need to own personal media copies of stuff.
Compared with the current winner takes all model of a handful of superstar authors, musicians, actors while everyone else starves.
Ok. Enough of that, back to reading dystopias...