Is piracy a necessary evil?

[Monk]

This system really should be a no-brainer. Give me a way to stream all past episodes of your show, including the episode that aired 4 days ago, so that I can get up to speed. If your service is convenient enough, I'd even tolerate the commercials. Win-win for everyone... so why aren't very many places doing this?

Because we live in a generation of transitioning technologies. Change doesn't come easy especially to old businesses like television conglomerates that have been around for over a half century. They've spent decades building and entrenching themselves into their ways, it's not going to change over night.

Give it another ten or twenty years maybe, but by then the machines will have rebelled and none of that will matter anymore so I guess we lose either way