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Re:Netflix lays off 300 additional staff by OJFord on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:34PM (#31856386)
Well.. you kind of can? For at least as long as other providers are producing content you think is good. The creativity comes from humans who work somewhere; you can you can't buy creativity but you can 'buy' humans.

Also you can buy the rights to old good stuff. Might not make good business sense (some (weird! senseless!) people will only watch new stuff) but it'd please me. My favourite stuff's all older than I am (i.e. I don't think you can claim it's just fond childhood memory or whatever) and there's plenty of greats I've yet to see, why restrict myself to this year's crap (and perhaps hit or two).

Re:Netflix lays off 300 additional staff by paulryanrogers on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:50PM (#31856769)
Buying rights is more difficult with so many platforms banking on their own backlog of content. It locks up much of the highest quality content by making their owners think they can be Netflix too. (Some of them are right.)