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Why aren't streaming media contracts negotiated like 'you will provide us the 4K copies of the entire series; we will stream it forever and you will get X% of the profit..margin...etc in perpetuity' (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

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rather than this stupid fucking snip snap game where, instead of, as a user being able to buy into a company that's building a massive, marvelous, library-of-alexandria-core archive of every good show ever made, you're paying into some shitty ephemeral bullshit made by stupid greedy dickheads who have no fucking sense

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 11 months ago

Peacock

Why can't they have the same shit? Because each studio is trying to monopolize their best properties instead of playing ball on neutral ground again. The last time they did that it was Netflix and they lost out on enough profits to make Netflix one of the biggest studios in Hollywood.

Unfortunately, this is very similar to the old days of Hollywood when each studio had their own line of movie theaters and didn't air their films at competing studios' theaters. That system was eventually broken up by a major court case ruling that said the studio system violated US federal antitrust law.