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

Where is this from?

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.