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This is pure fantasy, but I feel like a good solution would be for Netflix to legally be allowed to stream X concurrent sessions of a movie with X being limited
by thefreeman 12y ago
This is pure fantasy, but I feel like a good solution would be for Netflix to legally be allowed to stream X concurrent sessions of a movie with X being limited at the number of physical copies they own. Perhaps if all concurrent sessions are being used you could schedule your session for a different time window.
It obviously wouldn't work for new content but might solve the issue for rare or older movies which you cannot find elsewhere.
- TD-Linux 12y agoYeah, I agree with the pure fantasy part. Content owners would absolutely hate this. They also love DRM, and the content siloing that results.
- wmf 12y agoA slightly less unpalatable solution might be a compulsory license where anyone could stream any movie [1] as long as they pay 70% of $5 to the studio. [1] Any movie that has been released more than 90 days ago, etc.
- ASneakyFox 12y agoI beleive public libraries that support kindle use a system like this with books.
- IceyEC 12y agoThe library near me actually has to pay licenses for digital copies of books that they then get to 'check out' z number of times rather than based on the number of physical copies they have.