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For smaller countries, could a service small up exclusive rights to most feature length media, effectiy locking out competitors?

• setr 8y ago
  Its more about smaller industries, but in the scenario I described, probably not: there’s no reason that more psuedo-companies wouldn’t spring up, to service the other streaming services. If you somehow blocked this garbage film industry as well as implemented a minimum requirement rule, such that only “good” films counted to the percentage, and given that “good” is relatively difficult to meet, so supply is severely constrained, then lockout is not unimaginable. But it’d probably still be difficult without additional regulation: prices would simply increase until the strangehold was broken (as a studio, what do I care about netflix’s monopoly if amazon is willing to pony up?). It would still be locked down to a handful of major services, but that’s a scenario that comes about with or without this law Also an addendum example: chinese actors/directors/producers in film, whose primary value is allowing potential access to china distribution. When you substitute merit for nationality (or most other things), its trivial to game, and it will be gamed.