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Doesn’t really have to be one provider. I wouldn’t mind if there were 100 Netflix competitors if whichever one I picked gave me all of the content

• Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  The problem is everyone is going to pick the one that has the most content and is most popular, so the competitors will all die unless they start making exclusivity deals.
  • riffraff 6y ago
    I am not a big fan of "solve by regulating" but I feel this is a case where I would like it to work. Just say that every content producer must license their work for a "reasonable" price which is connected to the actual viewership (we can do this with streaming). Companies may litigate this into oblivion but more likely the majority of content would become available cross- distribution. Don't cinemas work somewhat like this? You have chains owned by WB or whatever by they also show content from other content producers.
    • atq2119 6y ago
      To your last point, my guess would be that it's down to physical cinemas scaling differently, which makes exclusivity pretty unattractive.
  • caf 6y ago
    Multiple music streaming services with the same content seem to be able to exist in some sort of equilibrium.