Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sharers

Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by jmastrangelo on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:04AM (#21491276)

I don't see how changing the commodity from media to rice improves your argument, if anything it weakens it. Of course people who grow your food need to be compensated for it! Otherwise they'll stop growing your food. You're not entitled to steal rice from food manufacturers.

Secondly media is far more complex than the art we've had for millenia. The sheer amount of resources to create a modern movie dwarfs what artists have created in the past, its comparing apples to oranges.

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Re:Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Sha... by achenatx on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:44AM (#21492145)

and the state enforces and subsidizes every business model.

The laws against theft, contract law, corporate law, tax law, equities laws, real estate law are there to allow business to be done in a secure trustable way.

Subsidies exist for all businesses like roads, electricity, farm subsidies, tariffs, protect business models, and allow businesses to transport goods for a low cost or protect them from competition.

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