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How about splitting the content and the platform? Like you know... how your local store was allowed to sell you VHSs of the Terminator and you didn't have to p
by izacus 4y ago
How about splitting the content and the platform?
Like you know... how your local store was allowed to sell you VHSs of the Terminator and you didn't have to pay subscription to Warner Bros store (which only existed in swamps of Florida) to get it? And how you could then give it to another person without restriction or tax to the said corporate lord?
Monopolization and integration of multiple markets into single corporate entities always hurts the consumers. Maybe it's time for US government to pull thumbs out of their bums and take out their cartel breaking hammers?
- avidphantasm 4y agoYeah. There should only be a few distributors. They should be something like a common carrier. Why should AMC, et al. duplicate streaming infrastructure? Focus on content and let someone else deliver it.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoVarious internet service providers are delivering it. Comcast is probably the only one making and delivering media.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThat rare time and place where a Google Fiber subscriber was watching YouTube Red original programming.
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- dhosek 4y agoWhen AT&T owned HBO.
- imiric 4y agoThat's a great point. It's remarkable how there are still industries that don't know how to take advantage of the internet to give a great user experience, and whose greed only hurts their bottom line. It's very simple: I want to watch any content from wherever, whenever, and however I like. Make it cheap and high quality, and I'll pay you for it. Screw this up, and I'll get it from somewhere that offers this experience instead.