I subscribe to the grow or die adage and you either build, buy, or partner to sustain continued growth.
This probably should be another topic, but this attitude is the main problem of humanity nowadays. There never can be neverending growth with limited resources.
In the end they are just one company with a limited group of websites
Which they probably invested quite a bit, so naturally they also wanna profit themself and not another 3rd party company.
If they chose the path of partnering as @justsomedude101 mentioned, and at the very least provided older content to SLR then that would provide them with an additional revenue stream for second run or older content.
Maybe, although I rather see them allowing their "secondary" sites here on SLR to get more audience finally subscribe to their mein sites.
The problem only giving away old videos is the rapidly improving technology in this sector. If you never have heard from a studio and see their old videos here you might think yeah not so bad, but they just use old technology I am used to better nowadays.
For example WanksVR only allows their old scenes shown here on SLR, if you do not know them from somewhere else you“d never be tempted to subscribe them because of some videos you have seen here, just because how old they look.
In this equation they are MGM and SLR is Netflix and we all know that eventually MGM gets eaten by a big fish.
More like SLR is Netflix, and CzechVR is something like Disney+ or AppleTV+.
This will probably happen with most high quality content, once the get big enough to stand on their own they will do it, because well then they do not have to share the profit with someone else.
And I think SLR knows this, that“s why they invest heavily to ramp up their own productions, so in the end they deliver enough HQ content themself to justify a subscription and see the rest of the content from smaller studios as a bonus, even when most of the other HQ productions have left them.