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Justice Department Warns Academy Over Potential Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix
The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services for the Oscars could raise antitrust concerns and violate competition law. [...] According to a letter obtained by Variety, the chief of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, wrote to AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson on March 21 to express concerns that new rules would be written “in a way that tends to suppress competition.” [...]
The letter came in response to reports that Steven Spielberg, an Academy board member, was planning to push for rules changes to Oscars eligibility, restricting movies that debut on Netflix and other streaming services around the same time that they show in theaters. [...]
“if the Academy adopts a new rule to exclude certain types of films, such as films distributed via online streaming services, from eligibility for the Oscars, and that exclusion tends to diminish the excluded films’ sales, that rule could therefore violate Section 1.” [...]
The letter reflects concerns that the Justice Department has been concerned about the ability of traditional media outlets to limit competition from new streaming video entrants, even those that have grown significantly in recent years like Netflix and Amazon Prime. [...]
Now if only Netflix could replicate the true theater experience of cell phones, crying babies and being searched like a criminal.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @12:39PM (7 children)
You've never watched a movie at home with your family, have you?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @01:34PM (6 children)
Your family search you like a criminal?
Are we talking body cavity here or just a standard Rikers strip search?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @03:36PM
The the wife is a pro at interrogation and she's not the good cop.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Thursday April 04 2019, @04:23PM (3 children)
I don't remember Commander Riker ever doing that, but maybe I forgot that episode.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @05:01PM
That was part of the "Extras" features of the "Director's Cut".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday April 05 2019, @12:19AM
I'm pretty sure the weekly hot female alien "strip search" was a standard Riker maneuver... Pretty much why he was on the show, along with the other standard Riker maneuvers: (1) standing up to shout "Red Alert!" at least once per episode, along with (2) being unable to sit down without swinging his leg up and around a chair [youtu.be] as if he were mounting a horse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @10:00AM
It's a Law and Order SVU reference
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @05:03PM
That all depends on if it's just me and the wife, or if we have family over for the holidays.