Making any content takes time, money, and labor. Nobody can keep making content, especially high-value content, with just “passion.” That’s why all those peertube videos (that are solely based on peertube and not other platforms) are always low quality low effort videos which provides no value to most people

It is. And they are blocking AI crawler for a while now. https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/

I am not aware of any reputated place where drm-free raw file downloading of the movies/shows you bought is possible. The best and easy way is ripping your dvds and blurays

While your concern is valid, it is instance specific. They can turn their whole instance paid, make it pay per message. The point of federation and an open standard is exactly that the user doesn’t have to give a f. matrix.org is not the only homeserver and user has the power to make their own homeserver as well.

Ok for me If it’s media size related. As storing media requires more storage than text.