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posted by martyb on Friday November 09 2018, @10:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-have-scene-it-coming dept.

CNBC:

Disney's new streaming service will be called Disney+ and launch in late 2019, CEO Bob Iger announced on the company's earnings call Thursday.

The company announced in August 2017 it would pull all its movies from Netflix in 2019, and start its own streaming offering for its past titles. Disney also purchased Fox for $71.3 billion in cash and stock, further bolstering its library.

The service will also feature new, original shows and movies, including original Marvel and Star Wars series. Marvel fan favorite character Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, will get an original series on the Disney+ service. A prequel series to Star Wars movie "Rogue One" about the character Cassian Andor, portrayed by Diego Luna, will also call the service home.

Are these streaming services the second coming of Cable?


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  • (Score: 1) by zoward on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:23AM (2 children)

    by zoward (4734) on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:23AM (#760303)

    A decade or two ago everyone was clamoring for a la carte pricing, since the cable comapnies all sold you content in "tiers", mny of which contained the one channel everyone wanted with a bunch of bullshit channels that were paying the cable co to be included in their lineup. Now if you think of what's going on right now as a la carte pricing, you can see what hgappens when the shoe's on the other foot - you have to go buy all the content a piece of a time (or acquire it through TPB). From a content provider's perspective, this is an opportunity to eliminate the middleman. It's no surprise that piracy is on the rise again, or the the combined pipe/content providers (e.g., AT&T), are throwing customers off their service in order to combat it.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @12:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @12:52PM (#760318)

    Each generation of P2P is an improvement on the last.
    Most likely, the next time P2P rises again a far greater proportion of the population will be involved. The tools will be far superior.
    What will the MAFFIA do then?

    • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 11 2018, @04:28AM

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday November 11 2018, @04:28AM (#760564) Journal

      That's what I've been arguing, Computer game piracy was rampant in the 1980s, before we had the mp3 codec, CD burners, big hard drives, dedicated sound hardware, and the Internet. Was only a matter of time before music piracy took off, once all those elements were in place. And now we have much better everything-- better codecs, much more storage space than an old CD, much faster computers, and ubiquitous broadband networking. It will continue improving, likely passing the point that an entire movie in 4K format can be downloaded in less than 1 minute,

      And I think the answer is that copyright is doomed. It will have to be scrapped. They have no choice but to change business models. The only choice they have is whether they will be early adopters, or laggards. And they're choosing to be laggards, and very ugly, bitter, spiteful and dangerous laggards at that.