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The issue is that Netflix doesn't control those restrictions, the content creators (well, rights holders) do, and their incentives don't always align.

• ryandrake 10mo ago
  Yea, what I mean by "people who make decisions" is everybody involved: studios, distributors, rights holders, and the maze of middlemen who have inserted themselves into the business: If all of them decided that more money could be made, if not for those pesky licenses, the "licensing problems" would immediately disappear.
  • jimbokun 10mo ago
    And if any of them decide they are better served by the current arrangement, the licensing problems remain. You seem to be making incredibly banal observations.
    • roguecoder 10mo ago
      That's what governance is for, though. These laws can be changed to require collaboration or remove the artificial monopolies. They haven't been because the people being hurt by it are way less organized than the people benefitting, not because things couldn't ever change.