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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by toast0 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:48PM (#42965268)
> however, why is DRM so important and require so much focus?

Because the content owners demand it. No content = no customers. You could probably build out a public domain streaming service, if you really wanted to build out a non-DRM streaming platform, but it's going to be hard to find customers for that too, I'd imagine.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by Epa095 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:25PM (#42966157)
This exactly.

I guess Netflix owns some of its concent, and could do as they pleases(?). But they still need a uber fast pipeline for the other stuff.

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