Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:50AM
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Apple will never publicly admit to the possibility of rooting their devices, especially not to allow bypassing DRM: they'd lose all their friends in Hollywood overnight.
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Disney is an enormous company, owning pretty much everything in the media world, dwarfing other hollywood companies.
It has a Market Cap of $320b, way bigger than Sony, Time Warner, Viacom and MGM put together.
Apple on the other hand is worth about 7 times as much as Disney.
Yes, but a non-insignificant portion of their revenue comes from content from third-party media companies. They very much have an incentive to play ball with the likes of Disney & Sony, despite having the upper hand in terms of market cap.