Re:Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
by malchow on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:13AM
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It seems to me that, given tech-side developments in the entertainment industry, increased density on the content side makes perfect sense. I'd be more concerned about a pair of CDNs merging than a pair of movie houses.
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Re:Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
by dsl on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:42AM
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You must live in a constant state of fear. Akamai literally buys every up and coming CDN once they gain double digit market share. Limelight is the only real holdout, Fastly hasn't been hit by the Akamai lawyers yet (which is always step 1 in their playbook), and they are waiting for Cloudflare to collapse under their own business model.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/akamai-technologies/...
Re:Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
by malchow on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:48PM
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Right. I'm saying that, if you care about "monopoly power in consumer home entertainment," you'd almost certainly have to rank edge network consolidation over movie studio consolidation. Judging by the number of animated logos before any current movie starts, there seem to be millions of these studios!