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For the past few years, the big TV networks made easy money selling their reruns to Netflix.
Now they're having second thoughts.
So are they ready to pull back on sales to Netflix and other digital services in the hopes of keeping their core business intact?
Investors will be looking for an answer to that question this week and next, as most of the big entertainment companies report their Q3 earnings and take questions from analysts. But several key TV executives have already signaled that they're going to stop selling their best stuff to digital services — particularly Netflix.
Binge-viewing has been established as the new method to consume content--that is the genie they need to stuff back in the bottle.
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Can the TV Guys Put the Netflix Genie Back in the Bottle?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by K_benzoate on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:32AM
a basic income for everybody
The only problem is that there is a faction of people in just about every country who would rather see the entire Earth burn to cinders in nuclear fire than see such a future come to pass. They would literally rather bring about Armageddon than suffer such moral and ethical catastrophe to come to pass. In their world view, working is how you legitimize your existence. If you don't work, you literally don't have a right to exist. This only applies to the peasants, of course. There's a class of betters which are naturally exempt from this. They're simply better. If they can't be on top, the entire system is better off not existing at all. And don't discount these people as a fringe minority. They are wealthy (by definition), and they have convinced many ordinary people to die with them should their power and wealth be threatened or even marginally reduced--this is the phenomenon of working class Americans enthusiastically backing Republicans who hate them.
There are people who would rather die than lose as long as everyone else dies too.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday November 06 2015, @12:19AM
a basic income for everybody
The only problem is that there is a faction of people in just about every country who would rather see the entire Earth burn to cinders in nuclear fire than see such a future come to pass.
so, i see you've met TheMightyBuzzard. ;)