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Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by jessaustin on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:23AM (#5134786)
It's very hard to imagine a situation in which Amazon could lock new entrants out of the video encoding market. All you need to enter this market are a fast connection and a server farm, both of which you can get for yourself or rent from numerous IaaS providers.

Amazon might very well have a price advantage, but other parties that can offer better quality of service or better L10n or whatever will still attract customers. This is how markets are "supposed" to work.

Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by wmf on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:07PM (#5135021)
It would be shady if Amazon set their prices for video encoding below the price of raw EC2, because then competitors would be in trouble. But they haven't done that.
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by zikzikzik on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @05:14PM (#5136709)
Why (on Earth) would it be shady?!