Yea I mean dlna/upnp is open, Chromecast solves the problem of a cheap, small bit of hardware to do that. It’s a bit of a mixed blessing. They sell at what must be a loss*, maintain backwards compatibility at I’m sure a huge expense, all to get your data.

I need them for micro blogging where the urls count against character limits. Maybe I’ll expand them when cross-posting to Lemmy, since you asked so nicely