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It's far more likely in 2017 YouTube, NetFlix, Hulu, iTunes etc will have instant, global, legal, affordable access to massive catalogs - most of those pieces a
by benologist 15y ago
It's far more likely in 2017 YouTube, NetFlix, Hulu, iTunes etc will have instant, global, legal, affordable access to massive catalogs - most of those pieces are already there.
- mistercow 15y agoIs a wizard coming in 2016 to magically make executives in the movie and music industries understand the shape of the modern world?
- paulsutter 15y agoIn 2016, any executives in the movie industry who prefer that people copy movies around manually on BitTorrent can easily make that happen by blocking their product from convenient streaming access.
- canadaduane 15y agoI'd like that (and I'd like to pay reasonable prices). But would the movie studios like that? And cable companies? I think the last 90 years have given copyright behemoths a war chest that they will continue to use for some time, to the detriment of innovation and reasonable compromises.
- benologist 15y agoIt's a natural extension and obvious next step for what we already have right now, the only major missing piece is "global".