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This is the way I look at it (it may not be correct) Before the MPAA made money off the creator, so for 95% of the content on netflix the companies producing t
by vuln 7y ago
This is the way I look at it (it may not be correct)
Before the MPAA made money off the creator, so for 95% of the content on netflix the companies producing the film paid into the MPAA. Sure Netflix probably had to pay the MPAA fee on their content too.
Now the MPAA will make even more money to lobby against customers because now the content distributors are paying in.
So now it give the MPAA more teeth and lobbying power.
Creators, Distributors, and the MPAA versus customers.
- scarface74 7y agoAccording to one poster - 10 million dollars. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to all of the money that Netflix has been giving the MPAA indirectly by first buying DVDs to rent and then paying millions for the right to stream movies made by MPAA members.
- vuln 7y agoI do understand your point but wouldn’t you agree that the money indirectly paid by Netflix is less money than if those customers of Netflix actually purchased said DVDs instead of renting them? The way I see it ( and again I could be wrong ) Netflix was able to leverage their massive buying power to get the DVDs at less than MSRP. Netflix buys 100,000 dvds of a pupil at title and the MPAA get their cut. Netflix then rents those DVDs 1 million times. Did the MPAA lose out on a cut of those 900,000 would be sales?
- scarface74 7y agoBefore Netflix people were renting from BlockBuster who also had deals with studios. Now Netflix is paying the same studios for streaming rights. Netflix paid Disney $300 million for the streaming rights to Disney IP (https://www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18307539/disney-streaming-launch-cost-billions-netflix-strategy-change https://www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18307539/disney-streaming-laun...) that doesn’t count all of the money it pays NBC/Universal, CBS/Viacom, and Warner.