Price hikes, terrible adverts, customer crackdowns: how the joy in streaming TV died

Disney+ is the latest platform to stop people sharing their password for free. It’s yet another step in an industry meltdown that puts pressure on customers – and leads to genuinely bad televisionRemember when streaming used to be exciting? Remember when, after years of trawling around HMV, spending £20 on DVDs of single seasons of television, Netflix arrived and presented you with what felt like every episode of every amazing television show ever made, for six quid a month? It