Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu...
by baq on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:51PM
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Remember that streaming services don’t only compete with each other, but they also compete with torrents. Netflix won not because of being cool or good, but because it was way more convenient than torrents for the majority of content. This isn’t true anymore, as all major studios want in on the market, which makes the TAM smaller due to fragmentation and lost network effects. (It is common to hear people saying they won’t pay for more than 1, 2, maybe 3 services.) Ice is thinner than it seems, but streaming services know this.
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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu...
by chii on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:56PM
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> Ice is thinner than it seems, but streaming services know this.
but would streaming services rather compete with piracy than another big player?
With piracy, they have the law on their side - they can lobby for rules to punish piracy using state resources, rather than their own. They cannot do so for their competitors.