Because, as this Slate piece makes abundantly clear, the movie people are just too bone stupid to realize they have to compete with it.
The days of controlling distribution with arcane contracts and weird periods of artificial scarcity are over. If consumers can't legally watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it, it's becoming easier and easier for them to do so in ways that result in zero revenue for the copyright holder. Do the math.
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