[madmusician]

I don't think pointing out the downsides of streaming and the upsides of physical media means people are "anti streaming".

Indeed, and I'd also suggest that this forum is made up of people who 'care' about their TV/film content and presentation more than the average viewer.  We'd be the people who'd notice the rights edits made on DVD/streaming versions of shows, for example, and the people who might be more likely to want to go back to watch a specific thing at a specific time.

I've said in the past on the blue place that streaming is a great thing, but it's conflated the 'new content', 'catch-up content', and 'content for keeps' idioms and whilst it's great for the first two things, it's pretty rubbish at the third (but people don't necessarily realise that - and, perhaps, lots of people don't care as much as 'we' do).

There's no way to ensure you have perpetual access to any content apart from owning a disc of it (and the relevant player) or having a DRM-free file of it.  The BBC Shop fiasco showed us just how useless buying DRM'd files are - all it takes is the licensing to be switched off and you've lost all of your content.

That's why I still buy things on DVD if I really want to keep them (I've got my box sets of W1A, Thick of It, West Wing, etc) or hang onto my own mp4 recordings of things broadcast on linear TV (I consider it the equivalent of taping things on VHS and keeping them for years - I know not strictly legal, but it's not pirated and it's for my own use/enjoyment, captured from a live showing)  It's the only way, unfortunately.

And, I do think that now that new content has been commissioned and shown only by streamers, with the inherent rights management within the platform, that loophole of 'you can tape it off the telly and just hang onto that for as long as you want' has closed for streaming originals.  It was never intended for this to be a 'feature' of home recording, but it could never be enforced. Now it can be, as the streamers can just take the content down to stop having to pay their 'repeat fees'-style payments to artists.

FWIW, I did some filming/recording as a musician for a Netflix Original just last month (not yet released), and was 'bought out' for all my rights, so that I receive a very good one-off payment for my work, but have signed a document to say that the production company now have the rights to the recording in perpetuity. And, for me, for the context of this very small recording, that works. But it's different for different situations, and I understand why everybody can't just be 'bought out' to allow these shows to remain 'up' in perpetuity.