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> services could keep exclusivity for a year, for example, before being forced to offer their self-produced content to competitors There was already a law to t
by jevoten 5y ago
> services could keep exclusivity for a year, for example, before being forced to offer their self-produced content to competitors
There was already a law to that effect, but much stricter, in the movie theater business. Movie studios were simply forbidden from owning theaters, thus forbidding vertical integration. It would make sense to expand such laws into other areas to limit anti-competitive market power abuses.
Instead, even these laws were killed: https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/7/21358637/movie-theater-antitrust-laws-paramount-consent-decrees-movie-studios-theater-chains-netflix-disney https://www.polygon.com/2020/8/7/21358637/movie-theater-anti...
- tssva 5y agoThis was not a law. It was a consent decree which only applied to certain studios.