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Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by joelwilliamson »

autoexec wrote: post #653
tim1994 wrote: post #361

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The problem is content exclusivity. It would be great if all the content or at least most would be available on all platforms. At least eventually. That would be great for consumers. Mergers like this typically not.

We could do that by limiting copyright to just 10-14 years. All platforms could have all that content forever without paying a dime. New stuff and exclusives would still be a draw to attract people to one platform or another.

Give 10 years of copyright for free, then a $1000 fee for the next decade, and make every subsequent decade 100x more expensive.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by moogly »

Maken wrote: post #153
moogly wrote: post #88

Definitely not great, but at least that means Ellison won't amass even more media control (for now). That is maybe the silver lining.

The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.

I didn't actually specify which Ellison. But we could say the Ellison clan to be inclusive.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by flenserboy »

ok. it isn't as if there's been more than a handful of movies worth watching which have been made in the last 10 years. consolidating catalogs of at-best-mediocre platforms isn't going to make things any better or worse.

Re: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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Post by xattt »

unsui wrote: post #688
mNovak wrote: post #659

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People don't seem to realize that Oracle is deep in the AI play, taking on a bunch of debt to make speculative leases and buildout of datacenters to rent to other players. It's been great for them so far, but if there's an AI winter, Oracle will be the first to freeze.

> Oracle will be the first to freeze one can hope

Will this somehow liberate ZFS?

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Post by skeptrune »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #341

I cancelled all my content subscriptions and I'm back to torrenting. I barely watch anything made my Netflix regardless. I think either Dark or the 3rd season of Stranger Things was the last time. Snyder's SciFi movie wasn't much good either. By now the streaming services are en route to become as terrible as whatever they were set out to replace. Once one of them started heavily advertising their own productions eve…

Hard agree. My read on the whole situation is that this is R.I.P. for Netflix as a tech company.

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Post by robotresearcher »

quasigod wrote: post #275
mattmanser wrote: post #198

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Seriously? The Crown, Stranger Things, Unbelievable, Russian Doll (wow, just wow), Orange Is The New Black, Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, GLOW, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Ozark, Nobody Wants This, Altered Carbon, Dirk Gently, Mindhunters, The Queen's Gambit, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head. And that's my taste, there's more not to my taste like Squid Game, Wednesday, Bri…

The majority of that list is quite old. Have you seen what they're doing now? Not saying every single thing they make anymore is bad, but the average quality is far lower than it used to be.

If you listed the best movies or books or plays or albums or video games you could think of, they would tend to be older too. 99% of stuff is kinda crap, always.

Survivor bias is very misleading.

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Post by roguecoder »

jimbokun wrote: post #501
ryandrake wrote: post #450

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Not attacking you in particular, but I've always hated how we talk about "licensing restrictions" as if they're some kind of vague law of nature, like gravity. Oh, Studio X can't do Y... Because Licensing. "Licenses" are entirely conjured up by humans, and if there was an actual desire by the people who make decisions to change something, those people would find a way to make the "licensing restrictions" disappear. R…

> Reality is, the people making these decisions don't want to change things, at least not enough to go through the effort of changing and renegotiating the licenses. Which is a perfectly sensible reason for a business decision. > "Well they don't because of 'licensing issues' with the source code." as if they were being stopped by a law of physics. So laws should just be ignored? Issues created by human social constr…

Disobeying unjust laws is a moral imperative. Working around laws that hurt society is good for society. Changing laws that aren't benefiting society is the sign of a functioning government.
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