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Most of these companies should never have entered the streaming business to begin with. Approximately nobody wants to be in a position of needing to subscribe t
by mindcrime 3y ago
Most of these companies should never have entered the streaming business to begin with. Approximately nobody wants to be in a position of needing to subscribe to 17 different services to see a broad swathe of general purpose content. OK, sure, if you have something really niche then maybe it makes sense to run as a separate service. But for most players, I can't help but think they be better off licensing their content to Netflix or Prime and not trying to be a separate platform.
- rwmj 3y agoUnless the government mandated some kind of maximum fees / compulsory licensing scheme, all that would happen is Netflix and Amazon would ratchet fees until they were talking all the value. This kind of licensing arrangement happened for radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license) so it's possible.
- JoBrad 3y agoIt was surprising to me that Netflix wasn’t even listed as a potential acquirer, with the “panic” levels being discussed.