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Re:Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star by sielskr on Monday December 13, 2010 @09:05AM (#2000467)
"big budget entertainment will increasingly have to compete with more and more free and low-cost entertainment options on the internet"

By "free and low-cost entertainment options" do you mean pirated content? I do not see non-pirated content competing effectively with big-budget movies and television the way that non-pirated textual content (blogs, sites like HN) competes effectively with newspapers and magazines.

Re:Time Warner Views Netflix as a Fading Star by dasil003 on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:03AM (#2000834)
I wasn't specifically talking about pirated content, although piracy will continue to hurt them as well. As for non-pirated content, I agree, it doesn't compete effectively, but attention is a finite resource, and it's being stretched very thin. It's a far cry from the days when people had to go to the movies just to get in an air-conditioned building during the summer.