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In my perfect world we would decouple content libraries from the technologies, services, interfaces, etc. that go into serving the content. The former is largel
by naravara 4y ago
In my perfect world we would decouple content libraries from the technologies, services, interfaces, etc. that go into serving the content. The former is largely a curation and legal-rights negotiation task. The latter is a technical and interface design task. It kind of sucks that we're held hostage to bad UX or technology to access good content or vice versa. It's definitely not a great situation for the consumer and is a classic case of market failure owing to the (albeit limited) monopoly powers of the rights holders.
- yamtaddle 4y agoWe did something similar, for similar reasons, with movie studios and movie theaters. Movie studios couldn't own theaters until very recently (a couple years ago, I think). Production companies shouldn't be able to own streaming platforms, and streaming platforms shouldn't be able to become production companies.