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Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by neuralRiot on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:28PM (#27296356)
>We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution.

Why? We’re not talking about food, water or the environment. There is where laws should be enacted or enforced.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by scyzoryk_xyz on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:02PM (#27296668)
Well technically the way I understand it, all the law should be enacted and enforced everywhere.

This is a classic 'culture is not important, doesn't matter' line of thinking. Cultural products influence people a great deal. Especially when they are young.

If monopoly power is influencing culture, the way it can with any industry by incentivizing low-quality or bad pricing, then it should be to some extent over-seen.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by neuralRiot on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:39AM (#27299759)
>This is a classic 'culture is not important, doesn't matter' line of thinking.

Culture is important and so is entertainment but the later is not always the former, and none is vital. There’s plenty of unmonopolized cultural options and one could even argue that much more benefiting than big blockbusters, it’s like worrying that pizza hut would monopolize the pizza market and losing nutritional values in the community.

Re:Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B by scyzoryk_xyz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @02:19AM (#27299970)
Well for one in this context you could say that I’m interested in the pizza and how it’s harder to find a good Neapolitan pizza place and all the mom’n’pop pizza places are being strangled to death.

It’s an interesting phenomenon, not necessarily something to be “worried” about.