Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content

Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by cookiecaper on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:26PM (#14965294)

When you say "market forces", it is important to understand we are operating within the confines of the completely arbitrary market dictated by copyright law. The natural market for "intellectual goods" like music, movies, and TV is very weak (which is why copyright was created in the first place).

Cable companies and centralized distributors are the natural conclusion of our copyright mechanisms. Online video has already been coalescing on Netflix and Amazon as the next-gen cable cos instead of Comcast and AT&T.

If we don't want to be stuck with the same thing over and over again, we need to change the way that we've constructed the artificial market for intellectual goods, so that subscription bundles a la cable is no longer the only feasible economic model.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by nebabyte on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:01PM (#14974123)

I like this approach, not shying away from reexamining the fundamental problem. What do you define as a "weak market"?

Seeing as that's the problem, affording agents in the space more or better control to try and strengthen the market could be an approach - so I want to understand where/what the current weaknesses are.

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Re:Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netfl... by dasil003 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:44PM (#14965374)

Yes, I understand that. I spent a decade of my life building a startup in this space. If you have an angle on how to change copyright law then I'm all ears.

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