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Her husband ian't right about dvds, the government is wrong about how they are regulating streaming services. The government needs to enforce reasonable content
by snapplebobapple 4y ago
Her husband ian't right about dvds, the government is wrong about how they are regulating streaming services. The government needs to enforce reasonable content licencing across all the services like they did with music and radio stations decades ago so all content is on all services and the services start competing on vectors that actually matter to consumers like interface design and fast content delivery networks.
- Terretta 4y agoIt's crazy that you can go to a grocery store as distribution aggregator and buy any type and brand of food in one place. You should have to go to a Kellog's store or a Quaker store depending what you want to eat next week. At least, that's what studios and labels think.
- layer8 4y agoIf food was infinitely replicable at basically no cost, you’d only be allowed to eat your cereals at the respective store.
- undersuit 4y agoLike a restaurant almost.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoYou're implying that piracy was killing media markets until physical copies were replaced with streaming, but hasn't that been debunked?
- layer8 4y agoNo, I’m saying that food companies would act like media companies do if food was trivially replicable, and therefore the fact that they currently don’t is not an argument for anything.
- harvey9 4y agoThere have been disputes between food brands and UK supermarkets recently that resulted in specific products being unavailable in specific supermarkets.
- phpisthebest 4y agoRetail exclusives including in grocery do exist. They are rare and limited to "high end" brands that are normally low volume, but there are things that I can buy at a Kroger that Walmart does not sell, and things I can buy at a Walmart that Kroger does not sell.
- andrewflnr 4y agoThat would only make her husband wrong if it was reasonable to plan on the government being right (even eventually) about streaming. It's not.
- dageshi 4y agoRadio and streaming isn't equivalent though, streaming is the end product, radio was basically advertising for the music. We live in pretty much the golden age of content where more is produced than ever before and more is being spent on it than ever before I cannot see how what you're proposing doesn't end up with a decline in both of those things because there would no longer be competition in content.