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Re:Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital ... by sib on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:44AM (#16438879)
As a note, it's not Amazon deciding to make the rental price "obnoxious" to take high margins - it's driven by the wholesale prices that they are charged by content licensors for digital rentals.

(I know, this fact doesn't make the digital rental any cheaper...)

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Re:Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital ... by mcguire on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:12PM (#16440447)
Do you have a source?

Either RedBox is losing money on each rental, or....

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Re:Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital ... by jonmb on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:46PM (#16440764)
Redbox is a physical rental, not a digital.
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Re:Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital ... by sib on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:10PM (#16448527)
I used to work at Amazon (in a different area, but collaborated with people in the video business) and I now work for a company that competes with Amazon's transactional video service.

The world of physical rental - at least in the US, not commenting globally - can rely on the First Sale Doctrine, which dramatically alters the economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

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