If corporations didn’t rule the internet these problems would not exist. I am old enough to remember when the promise of the internet was that anything would be available anytime, anywhere, as hosting and bandwidth was so cheap and getting cheaper all the time.
This wide availability and a culture unlocked could’ve been true. Absolutely do not believe anyone who tells you anything else because they are simply wrong and are unfortunate corporate propaganda victims.
As the screenwriter John August recently pointed out, there are still hundreds of movies from the home-video era that are not available to stream, and the availability of older titles is even more of a patchwork.
I run into movies all the time that I think of that are available in no format, anywhere, for any price. Piracy is literally the only option. In the future, pirates will be honored and lauded for preserving our cultural heritage while corporations worked to destroy it.