Why doesn’t every streaming service have public domain movies?

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Since there wouldn’t be any cost associated with getting rights for streaming, why can’t I boot up Nosferatu on whatever platform I happen to be on? To me it seems like the cheapest, easiest thing to do to upload a collection of the most famous public domain movies as a matter of course when setting up a streamer. Is there a specific reason why it mostly isn’t done?

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Consumers don’t like it when you sell them something that is free elsewhere, basically.

There would be no “value add” for the streamer – it just makes them look cheap and like they don’t have enough material.

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