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Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
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#252After hearing the news clicked on the notification centre and saw this: http://cl.ly/2O26070b3z0S -- NFLX +9,31% It got me thinking how does this work? Surely people working at Netflix knew that this was coming. Are they allowed to buy stocks with such insider knowledge? Are they buying? Even someone like me with zero knowledge in stock markets would assume this will have a positive impact on the stock price.
Netflix employees are currently locked out, and their internal ethics policy would prevent them from buying anyway.
I'm a former employee and knew this was coming, but it would still be ethically and morally wrong for me to trade on this info (and probably illegal too).
The reason it popped right after is because there are a bunch of computers that watch twitter for news and trade on it split seconds after it breaks.
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#253Disclaimer: Cuban here (living in US) Available in Cuba? Try to find the bandwidth... Seriously, why include Cuba in the list? That makes their statement a bit of a joke in my opinion.
It was actually in Cuba a few months ago when the embargo lifted. :)
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Essentially NetFlix is paying their producer partners for worldwide rights, while conventional US networks only pay for US rights, and the producers sell the other country rights separately. But I'm not sure any of the partners in the conventional setup have a reason to change. US networks don't care about worldwide rights. Producers don't care who is paying them for the rights. Other country networks like having con…
Having spent the last 8 years of my life building a streaming film company that has from day one streamed globally and dealt with this patchwork of rights issue, I can tell you one reason: Other than China and India, no other market is as big or insular as the US. In Europe people travel across borders and speak multiple languages all the time, and yet it's like pulling teeth to put together multiple regional subtitl…
> Other than China and India, no other market
> is as big or insular as the US.
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#255Aws and Amazon Instant Video probably are very separate businesses. And right now, aws is obviously much more successful than Amazon Video. But is that enough reason for Netlfix to be not scared of being a full aws shop and not worrying the fact that their biggest - probably the only - competitor (Amazon Video) also shares the same parent company as Netflix's main tech provider (aws)?
Along the same line of questioning what's to stop Netflix from packing up bags and moving to GCE/Azure?
Lack of features and/or scale.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop? This is basic supply and demand. Harrison Ford has a monopoly on Harrison Ford, so if you want Harrison Ford, you have to pay what Harrison Ford wants for it.
Maybe this will give all the not-Harrison Fords a better chance. A lot of the A list is about hiring tried and true great actors... but you can get 80% of Harrison Ford for much less than 80% of his current asking price. Much like making music, filming technology is already commoditized at the entry level... it's distribution costs that remain high (hard to reach a large audience without massive ad $$, known actors,…
Netflix has paid Kevin Spacey his price, anyway, so the point is kind of moot.
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#257After hearing the news clicked on the notification centre and saw this: http://cl.ly/2O26070b3z0S -- NFLX +9,31% It got me thinking how does this work? Surely people working at Netflix knew that this was coming. Are they allowed to buy stocks with such insider knowledge? Are they buying? Even someone like me with zero knowledge in stock markets would assume this will have a positive impact on the stock price.
There are fairly strict regulations concerning how insiders are able to trade, legally. If an insider learns of information that can potentially influence stock price, they may only execute trades as part of a preexisting plan or agreement. For example, an insider can continue purchasing shares as part of a stock or option purchase plan. Or an insider can continue selling shares as part of a retirement preparation plan.
Additionally, insiders are usually required to report any trades of company stock that they make.
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#258Aws and Amazon Instant Video probably are very separate businesses. And right now, aws is obviously much more successful than Amazon Video. But is that enough reason for Netlfix to be not scared of being a full aws shop and not worrying the fact that their biggest - probably the only - competitor (Amazon Video) also shares the same parent company as Netflix's main tech provider (aws)?
Samsung makes phones that compete with Apple, yet is also one of their biggest suppliers. This happens in business all the time.
AWS knows that if they did anything to harm Netflix's business, it would reflect very poorly on them (and be morally and ethically wrong).
Also, while both offer streaming services, they don't really compete. Many people subscribe to both services.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema? They are trying. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 is being released simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix. Some chains complained and are refusing to show it. But honestly, I don't see it. Cinema is $10-15/person/visit, and Netflix is $10/mo for an entire library of content. Profit margins for Hollywood aren't that great - so how do…
Maybe it'll force Hollywood to pay actors far far less. Harrison Ford was paid somewhere between 10 and 25 million (probably towards the lower end of that scale). Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop? I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much and that releasing cinema to streaming services will co…
> Maybe it'll force Hollywood to pay actors far far less. Harrison Ford was paid somewhere between 10 and 25 million
Probably a bad example, because the studio's investment in Harrison Ford in SW:TFA will surely be repaid many times over, and isn't really threatened by netflix.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Maybe a stupid questions but what if they disrupted not just TV but also cinema? They are trying. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 is being released simultaneously in theaters and on Netflix. Some chains complained and are refusing to show it. But honestly, I don't see it. Cinema is $10-15/person/visit, and Netflix is $10/mo for an entire library of content. Profit margins for Hollywood aren't that great - so how do…
Maybe it'll force Hollywood to pay actors far far less. Harrison Ford was paid somewhere between 10 and 25 million (probably towards the lower end of that scale). Flipping the question a little bit, how do you justify paying actors 40 million for a movie if they're being streamed online for $5 a pop? I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much and that releasing cinema to streaming services will co…
I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much
The market decides these things.
It's difficult to argue that there isn't enough profit on a movie that has grossed over 1.5 billion dollars in three weeks to pay A-list actors A-list salaries.
A-list actors don't make that kind of money because movie studios are generous. They make it because their presence puts butts in seats.
Sure, the "Star Wars" name would be enough to put butts in seats but without Ford, Fisher and Hamil, this movie would have made less money.
If I'm not being forced to pay it, I don't care what someone else makes.