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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by dragonwriter on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:31PM (#29788614)
> Online streaming has been a thing for 10+ years now.

Movie theaters and broadcast/cable are still a thing, and still an important component of how legacy video makes money on content. And the geographic distribution issues there still exist. And for them to work, geographic exclusivity can't ignore streaming, either.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by imgabe on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:42PM (#29788713)
Yeah, the thing is consumers don't care. They'll watch the content that's available. And as time goes on, that's what they'll know, what their kids grew up watching, and what they'll look for. The stuff that wasn't available they're not going to care about.

You can't convince me that, say, Warner Bros doesn't have sufficient leverage to wrest their online streaming rights away from some Bulgarian movie theater chain or whatever. I mean, come on.

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