I don't think the issues are simple or that everything should be free, but I do think (and the issues differ between music, movie, TV industries) that big content producers underestimate the degree to which THE INTERNETS promote and encourage interest in their products. From a pure consumer perspective, television, in particular, is much much better than it ever was. The longer form story telling which is relatively new, a departure from the 'make shows that people can watch in any order on the reruns' era, is made possible because people know they can, one way or another, legally or illegally, catch up on episodes they missed because they weren't glued to the box at the right moment.
