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This article is weird: the tone it sets is that them being blocked was a bad thing but then they say: > Netflix would’ve never stood a chance of getting its cu
by lagadu 7y ago
This article is weird: the tone it sets is that them being blocked was a bad thing but then they say:
> Netflix would’ve never stood a chance of getting its current market penetration [in the UK],” says the BBC source. “All the big players would have had the market covered for streaming video-on-demand (SVOD)
That's exactly why they blocked it: to allow for multiple individual competitors to enter the market. So... the regulators did a good job after all: by blocking the huge merging of content from three of the biggest providers in the UK.
- TheNorthman 7y agoDon't confuse the article having an ideology for it being wrong. State-operated streaming services have had success in other countries without monopolistic problems. Take, for example, Denmark where, in addition to hosting a streaming service, multiple state TV-channels have gone online-only. On top of this, public libraries themselves have their own free streaming services.