Anti-consumer, just like copyright law. My argument is that arguing against this practice is arguing against copyright law. And that's fine. We can agree that the copyright law is at least out of touch with the reality and that the copyright duration is outrageous.

But there's an argument to be made that the producer is incentivized to produce content by the prospect of making a profit. And that ultimately this benefits consumers too.

Would Game of Thrones exist if HBO wouldn't be allowed to have exclusive content?

I don't think so. And personally I'm seeing the quality of these shows from HBO and Netflix going up, versus the experience we've had on TV where the shows are optimized for serving ads. I also don't think anybody would pay for an HBO subscription without exclusive hits such as Game of Thrones.

> "Recommendations and reviews for example, customer service, price, outages, video quality"

There's not much customer service to be had. I never interacted with the customer service of HBO or Netflix. Not much on video quality either IMO, there's basically HD and the ability to stream HD over mobile data connections and that's almost a solved problem.

Also on recommendations or reviews, that's ultimately a natural monopoly. Think of how Amazon is thriving due to having the best product reviews, which can't be migrated and any newcomer in the market starts at a serious disadvantage due to not having reviews.

If anything I believe it is review platforms that should be made a shared resource, part of "the commons", like highways.