You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back

Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by gffrd on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:37PM (#33134285)

What about the music industry allowed Spotify to happen? Is licensing set up in a way that made it possible whereas Movie/TV makes it impossible/unlikely?

(I remember Classic Netflix, where I could get 99% of what I wanted … or, in many cases, over 100% of what I wanted!)

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Re:You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are... by scarface74 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:28PM (#33135243)

There are only three major studios and music costs a lot less to produce. There are also various release windows for movies where studios can get paid multiple times.

Also Spotify is losing money and can never be truly profitable with 70% of everything they make contractually going back to the labels. Subscription music is a sucky business and it only makes sense as a feature for a larger platform

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