Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by true_religion on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:50PM (#14963718)

Every studio... nah. But they don't care about being available to everyone, just the people that would choose them above another studio in the family budget.

You'll end up with people who subscribe to Amazon + Disney, or Amazon + Netflix, and some who do HBO + Disney + Hulu.

Studios want to compete with one another directly for customers, not go through some middleman.

Is it less convenient, sure, but customers (like me) used to go out to video stores and physically purchase DVDs, so its obvious what we're willing to accept a whole lot more inconvenience than what Netflix offers.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:25PM (#14963972)

Isn't it so sad that the rich capitalists response to greater convenience is "well now we have breathing room to make things much worse, they sucked in comparison before, let's see if we can make it as horrible as that again".

Replacing technological limitations with unnecessary, arbitrary financial limitations doesn't seem like progress.

Still, at least they're helping to inch us closer to a popular 'uprising' against Disney's perversion of copyright legislation.

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