I want an app that lets me play whatever I want.
I have the money to pay for this but right now this app is called bittorrent.
Here's a simple challenge: find a legal online streaming service, any service which shows Mists Of Avalon from 2001. (Yes, yes, I know, I can find the Russian site which streams it for free, I strongly suspect it's pirating it.)
These days I end up buying a fair amount of music and games with only a fraction acquired elsewhere. Both Bandcamp and GOG.com have been have sinks of money for me.
As for TV shows and movies, I only wish there was an equivalent which didn't sell an experience subpar to a DRM-free mkv.
Besides, actors can be replaced, but you can't replace an author who's already written the book -- and the allegations against Bradley are much worse.
I have the money to pay for this but right now this app is called bittorrent.
The price, like any monopoly, is how effectively they can price discriminate combined with what they think they can ask. You ask "How much?", the answer is "What you got?".