Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Capitalism, errr, wait no....
Market freedom leads to competition, doncha know?
Disney makes an awful lot of money based on government restraint of competitors.
Copyright.
Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
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#32So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
Most of the FX Networks-owned content has been gone from Netflix for a while; it's been on Hulu or Prime Video.
Sadly Hulu is only available in the U.S., although I find that I can rent/buy from google a lot of content that isn't available on Netflix.
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#33So what you're saying is that Disney will own The Simpsons?
https://i.redd.it/cx2j4c9aufwz.jpg (predicted in 1998)
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#34So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
How is it that this is so much less anti-competitive than bundling an OS with a web browser?
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#35Maybe there will be a consolidation and some crappy repetitive movies will go away? I think these businesses are overvalued.
What happens when consumers get sick of the super hero genre?
EDIT: for whoever down-voted - that wasn't a sarcastic question. Honest question of what happens when the main products lose popularity? If there is a downturn in interest in that, will they get their $50B back?
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#36So, will the Fox fanfare return to all Star Wars films, past and present, from now on?
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#37My knee jerk reaction here was "ugh, more consolidation of the media by US mega corporations." But then I noted that Fox is owned by News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
Fox continues to own News and Sports. However rumors are that Murdoch may also be shopping other parts of what remains. Disney gets Movies including Avatar and XMen, etc, 300 other channels, production studios, controlling stake in Hulu and for some bizarre historical reason, now own the rights to Star Wars IV, A New Hope.
> and for some bizarre historical reason, now own the rights to Star Wars IV, A New Hope
These were distribution rights, some of which were going to expire in 2020 anyway.[1] So now we may finally get some official unspecialized Star Wars.
[1]: http://www.slashfilm.com/20th-century-fox-still-owns-rights-...
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#38So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
How is it that this is so much less anti-competitive than bundling an OS with a web browser?
Because Microsoft, for all their bad acting, didn't have a hand up the backside of enough senators to use as sockpuppets.
Disney does. They write our IP laws.
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#39So what you're saying is that Disney will own The Simpsons? https://i.redd.it/cx2j4c9aufwz.jpg (predicted in 1998)
That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.