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Re:Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers by paulryanrogers on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:09AM (#24939064)
My guess is a middleman like Apple isn't necessarily a problem if the content were DRM free. It's the sword dangling overhead which may invalidate ones license without reimbursement, or limit access arbitrarily that is burdensome.

When I downloaded a movie from Netflix I couldn't watch it on vacation because of region locking.

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Re:Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers by jshen on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:25AM (#24939427)
Region locking is typically do to contracts with the content creators, actors, etc. typically has nothing to do with the middleman. DRM isn’t much different, the content creators often demand/expect it.

P.s. I’ve worked in this space.

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Re:Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers by paulryanrogers on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:22AM (#24941460)
While true the middlemen often are more visible than rights holders. And some are big enough to push back on DRM as Apple did with music.
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