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All these media monsters are already too big. They should be split apart, not allowed to buy more stuff.
by shmerl 8y ago
All these media monsters are already too big. They should be split apart, not allowed to buy more stuff.
- jngreenlee 8y agoAre you a paid account? I feel like I've noticed more political-campaign related shilling in the past couple years.
- shmerl 8y agoMay be you've noticed a dysfunctional anti-trust situation too.
- basch 8y agoThey bought a bunch of old movies, how is that anti-trust. THeres a limit to how many old movies you can own? Disney isnt stopping people from making movies by buying the old Fox catalog?
- dmitriid 8y agoBy buying and owing the rights to it in what is essentially perpetuity. Look at actions of the company as a whole, not at one action in isolation. I don't think it's a coincidence that this purchase comes at the same time when the first works released in 1923 are finally entering public domain [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copyw...
- basch 8y agoBuying changes to intellectual property ownership laws isnt antitrust tho, its regulatory capture.
- what_ever 8y agoDoubt any political party would care to pay people to post on HN. I think, it is a lot smaller than you think.
- dang 8y agoThis comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to them when posting here? The overwhelming majority of the time, people just have differing views. Taking the conversation into "are you a paid account" territory without evidence—an opposing view is not evidence—has poisonous, community-destroying effects and is not allowed here, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html