Yes, distribution is a service, and providing good service adds value that people are willing to pay for.

I can cook myself using only my free time.

But I'm willing to shell out some money for having someone cooking for me and doing the dishes.

Yet, only if the price is right.

A good legal bargain kills illegal ones. But then capitalism greed comes, with that enshitification, and as that lowers the legal bargain value, illegal comes back.

Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money and decided just making a healthy amount of money renting the rights to them they had to try and make more money releasing their own service. Gotta love modern capitalistic greed. I wish streaming services was like movie theaters where production companies are not allowed to own theaters (aka the distribution network).

Owning theaters was forbidden for movie studios, but afaik making movies was always allowed for theaters.

> Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money

At the time Netflix was literally making a cash loss despite paying less than the cost of production for most of it's output.