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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by runevault on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:45AM (#39258072)
Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money and decided just making a healthy amount of money renting the rights to them they had to try and make more money releasing their own service. Gotta love modern capitalistic greed. I wish streaming services was like movie theaters where production companies are not allowed to own theaters (aka the distribution network).
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by galahad_ on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:44AM (#39258375)
Owning theaters was forbidden for movie studios, but afaik making movies was always allowed for theaters.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Mindwipe on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:38AM (#39260101)
> Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money

At the time Netflix was literally making a cash loss despite paying less than the cost of production for most of it's output.

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