Nah - it costs them. Similarly, wage theft COSTS employees tens of billions a year.

The employees are legally entitled to the money for services rendered, they never received it, and we say it "cost" them.

Netflix is legally entitled to the money for services rendered, they never received it, and we say it "cost" them.

You can even apply this to the creatives who get front-end or back-end residuals. You not paying for access to the content that the artist shares in costs them money that is legally theirs and that the artist worked for.

I'm honestly shocked at how anti-content creator this subreddit is for a forum dedicated to the business of making content. Or it used to be about that. Now its just Snyder vs. Anti-Snyder circlejerking.