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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.
At one point you start wondering why you pay for Netflix.
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It's entertainment. Why should anything other than being good for shareholders matter? It's not an essential goods company like say food or medicine
Disney having more money and power to lobby against sane copyright laws is a negative for every citizen and really the world
The problem is the easiest way to protect this is by having Congress extend the copyright law duration on all copyrighted works. There are possibly other mechanisms that would work better at letting un-used IP go to public domain (and Disney would likely be fine with this), but it's complicated and I think that would require a political movement to get started and nobody cares enough to do it.
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Disney makes an awful lot of money based on government restraint of competitors. Copyright.
Ok, so let's get rid of copyright. Now the embarrassing problem is that markets are terrible at incentivizing the creation of what-was-previously-known-as-IP.
Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555... https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...
It's entertainment. Why should anything other than being good for shareholders matter? It's not an essential goods company like say food or medicine
(This is one of the reasons why I oppose capitalism)
https://youtu.be/PXBJIZ1NXFU (Epic Rap Battles of History, Stan Lee vs Jim Henson) Whole video is good imo, but skip to around 2:06 onwards for the relevant bit. Sums up the feeling nicely I think.
Maybe 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?
I don't think a greater concentration than ever of movie studios is going to lead to creative flourishing, no.