Back to the Future Part 2 can't happen because old Biff wouldn't have been able to return to the future where Marty and Doc were at the beginning of the movie, based on the movie's own logic.
This is widely credited as the origin of modern reality tv, but it's not completely true. The earliest reality shows I can remember are Road Rules and The Real World, and those both predate the strike.
Best and simplest answer is that technically they're still considered law enforcement. Nearly everything they're doing is constitutionally illegal, but only the courts have the right to determine that.
If we start threatening police with guns, every single nook and cranny of our legal system justifies the police murdering us. Maybe some cops would get paid leave for a few weeks, or possibly even lose their badges, but that's about it.
And then they'll use it to justify an even more inflated budget for ICE, and everything will get exponentially worse.
They literally did steal it from Levar Burton though. He created it and owned it, and has championed childhood reading for decades. He partnered a media group to do more with the brand, and then when he was talking with Netflix about a potential show, the group sued him for not asking them first. They ended up with all the rights and left Burton in the dust.
So some garbage media group stole something beautiful from one of the nicest people to ever live, and they immediately hollowed it out to a soulless husk and shat something out of it.
Every single person involved should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
There is a pretty famous Mitch Hedburg bit about that same exact thing. People used to quote his jokes a lot online. I wonder if, instead of a poem, that was what you read.
But... shareware was literally designed to paywall the majority of an application or game until you paid for it. It was a free shareable demo.