Quite a few years ago, I published a series of articles on why streaming services, be that for music, for film or for games, were a fundamentally bad idea and ultimately audiences, or “consumers,” if you want to be crass and capitalist about it, were going to wish they hadn’t become the standard. A lot of people got surprisingly mad at me about it. Streaming services were “good value” they insisted, and how dare I criticise something that meant they could have all the things they wanted for a few bucks per month? In fact, it was these “debates” that…