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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by criddell on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:36PM (#13524289)
That's true, but only for fungible goods.

If you don't want to pay $5 to rent a digital copy of Frozen for your kids, then you can go to archive.org and pick a movie to watch for free. Your kids might be disappointed though.

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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by dragonwriter on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:37PM (#13524773)
> That's true, but only for fungible goods.

That's essential to the definition of competition, yes.

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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by criddell on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:41PM (#13525780)
Not always.

I can watch baseball for free on television or I can go to the ballpark and pay to see it in person.

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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by Karunamon on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:19PM (#13526009)
You pay in the first instance by way of constant commercial interruptions. (And if you wait and DVR it to remove the commercials, it's not really comparable to a live game you can visit in person anymore)
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Re:Hollywood as We Know It Is Over by criddell on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:43PM (#13527081)
Have you been to a baseball game lately? Ads are everywhere.

Anyway, when I can, I watch baseball on the MLB streaming service where there are very few ads. Usually, they just blank out the screen during the commercial time which is almost as annoying.

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