Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launching an app store

Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by izacus on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#33665617)

This is what Disney did to streaming media - bought out Marvel, locked all their content behind their own streaming service and locked in the choice of the service and content together into a single consolidated entity.

People now scream at Netflix for not having this content anymore and happily pay Disney for it.

Isn't market competition great?

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by autotune on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:20PM (#33666893)

You can probably watch any interesting content you find on Disney+ on a Saturday before having to wait a while for anything new. The catalog is not that much, but it is high quality, and I don't have a tv show about a soda company promotion on my front page like I do with the supposedly ad free version of the Netflix plan.

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by Spivak on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:01AM (#33670101)

Without compulsory licensing for copyrighted works there will never be competition. And that’s by design.

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