Re:Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 p...
by danShumway on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:26AM
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> Google offered to make Netflix a “platform development partner” under a program it called “LRAP++”,
See, it's not a corporate deal happening behind the scenes. Don't call it a sweetheart deal, it's just a program. It's just a general pricing tier that Google was spinning up. /s
> “Netflix is the only one this is being offered to at this point,” the document continued.
You know, one of those "programs" that we happen to offer to exactly one company and only if we think there's a chance they have the ability to walk away.
See, it's not a corporate deal happening behind the scenes. Don't call it a sweetheart deal, it's just a program. It's just a general pricing tier that Google was spinning up. /s
> “Netflix is the only one this is being offered to at this point,” the document continued.
You know, one of those "programs" that we happen to offer to exactly one company and only if we think there's a chance they have the ability to walk away.